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What the heck is happening to this thread? The comments disappear before I manage to answer to them. What sort of Soviet-alike censorship is that?
by odiroot 9y ago
What the heck is happening to this thread?
The comments disappear before I manage to answer to them.
What sort of Soviet-alike censorship is that?
- arethuza 9y agoIt could be the author of comments deleting them - I quite often delete comments a few moments after posting them.
- quakenul 9y agoTo add to that, I usually do so because somebody beat me to what I wanted to say. As was the case in this thread.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- dang 9y ago> What sort of Soviet-alike censorship is that? It just seems that way. Alas it's a tempting conclusion to jump to. Of the 9 comments that disappeared in this thread, 8 were deleted by their authors. 1 was flagged by users. Another comment was killed by software and thus never became visible in the first place, but we've rescued that one. We don't delete anything outright, except by request of the author. If you set 'showdead' to 'yes' in your profile you can see all the comments killed by user flags, moderators, and software. "[dead]" means the comment is only visible to users logged in with 'showdead'. "[flagged]" means users flagged it. "[flagged] [dead]" means so many users flagged it that the comment was killed. If you just see "[dead]" but not "[flagged]", either it was killed by software or by mods. When you see a [dead] comment that you think shouldn't be dead, assuming you have > 30 karma you can vouch for it by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'vouch'. If vouches override flags, the comment will be restored.