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Re:Paul Gram, his following, and the hacker partiality by pg on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @10:15PM (#27980)
Your comment is still alive

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27969

even though the post you commented on was deleted.

I just added deletion. When something is deleted, it really goes away. This is different from marking something as dead. You can still see dead stuff if you set showdead to yes.

Deletion is for submitters who change their mind; marking stuff as dead is for editors to do to spams and offtopic submissions.

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Re:Paul Gram, his following, and the hacker partiality by vlad on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @11:32PM (#27992)
When he first deleted his original comment, it said (deleted) in its place, but my reply still showed up under it. I think that makes more sense than hiding all the children replies of a parent that is deleted.
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