I believe the whole account is flagged if enough comments are flagged by multiple people. I've already emailed dang.

Right it looks like 10 months ago it was an actual account, and either got hacked to karma-farm(?) or author decided to use as a throwaway test.

Check out the submission history.

Where did your comment go ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26843586&goto=item%3Fi...

Oh, it was getting a bunch of downvotes, and it didn't really add much to the conversation, so I nuked it.

I'll do that. It's not the downvotes that bother me; it's that I am not really adding to the conversation.

I feel that it's important to add to the conversation; not just participate.

That post was mostly whining about outsourced software and CS. Not my proudest moment.

I found it interesting. Instead of down-voting a comment the down-voters should post a refutal. That would add to the conversation. I'm always prepared to change my mind. Instead of getting down-voted into oblivion.

The “random nonsense” in this particular example are the next/previous article links from the bottom of the page.