[pests]

Someone in the project considers HN not a safe-space for queer viewpoints / racist / homophobic.

I am very much at a loss as well as this has never been my experience.

A lot of the arguments started with "when you enable showdead, there's lots of dead comments of people being vile".

Just not sure what to say.

[squigz]

Here's some context [0]

Indeed, it does often boil down to dead comments being... not great, unsurprisingly.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36226845

[throw10920]

The fact is that they're dead, though. They've been killed - by either the users, or the mods. Getting upset over them is unreasonable.