[ars]

wvoq your account is dead now, so no one can see or reply to any of your new posts.

Anyway, you are getting downmodded for two reasons:

1: because staunch edited his post so your reply no longer makes any sense.

2: Your reply was totally offtopic.

[wvoq]

Thanks for your reply, if you can even read this.

While it's unclear to me whether it's ever off-topic to point out problematic slurs (would you think similarly if the OP had written "they got rid of a faggot..."?), I guess this exchange signals a mutual agreement between myself and the modal HN user about whether we want to interact.

[someone13]

For what it's worth, I don't have showdead turned on, but I can see your comment.

[Shank]

As can I.

[ars]

He has a reply to lwat that is dead. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3564891