Re:A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
by gus_massa on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @01:59PM
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You can see the [dead] comments if you go to your profile and enable "showdead". Most of them are very bad, but from time to time you can find a false positive and vouch it.
Re:A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
by hunter2_ on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @05:43PM
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Yes, I keep that enabled. I guess I provided poor examples but what I'm saying is that it seems like on Reddit moderation activities are quite obvious (i.e., a giant chain of deleted comments tends to indicate moderation and elicit resentment) and here they're less obvious (there's an air of strong moderation but little to point at directly, which is great IMHO as it evades resentment).
Re:A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @01:53PM
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You can see all of those deleted/flagged comments if you turn on "showdead" in your options.
Speculation/intuition, but I figure it happens in ways specifically designed to evade the type of detection you're basing your claim on, akin to shadow banning, whereas on Reddit there's often more visible evidence like corpses of deleted comments.