Yeap.. I guess they breached some community guidelines or maybe was just a whim of some self serving mod.

edit: I've emailed HN for comment.

Not sure what you guys mean, but one comment was flagged by users (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32428254) sufficiently to become [dead]. You can see [dead] comments if you want to by turning 'showdead' on in your profile. Does that help?

Hey Dang, I've always had showdead on.. but no-dr-onboard is correct in that some comments have vanished way beyond the delete time limit.

Ok, I'll have to look into this later - there are not currently any deleted comments in this subthread. Possibly a mod detached some? I'm not sure yet.

Thanks for bringing them back.