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Ask HN: comments silently censored?
Just noticed a comment i posted only shows up while i'm logged in. Does this mean i'm being "silently" censored, or is it some kind of bug?
The comment URL:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376730
Which was in response to:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376304
- duck 16y agoI think it was because it was marked [dead], at least that is what I see.
- exit 16y agobut it's not what i see. i see the entire comment, but only when logged in as "exit". otherwise i see [dead].
- jacquesm 16y agoI've seen this happen a few times in the last couple of days, once it was a duplicate comment that automatically got killed, the other time it persisted for a while and then the comment turned back to normal. Odd! You seem to be able to post normally and your comments are visible now so you're not banned or anything like that.
- exit 16y agoactually, when i edited the comment which is now [dead] (to everyone else), the edit showed up as a new comment (instead of changing the intended comment). so i deleted the edit and then "really" edited to comment i wanted to change. so yeah, sounds like a bug. thanks for mentioning you've seen this before.
- brk 16y agoPut away the tinfoil hats... Your comment was dead'd. If you're not logged in, it shows as dead. If you're logged in and have ShowDead ON in your profile (as you must), you will see your comment. If you're logged in and have ShowDead OFF, you will see [dead].
- jacquesm 16y agoThe comment was killed because it was a duplicate (see below).
- brk 16y agoRight, but that wasn't the point of my comment, I'm just saying that he is not being censored in some devious way that makes it look one way to him and a different way to the rest of the users.
- jacquesm 16y agoNo, certainly not. It just looks weird, that's what prompted him to ask. There are lots of people in the category you describe though.