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Visit your HN profile then set "showdead" to "yes" to see some of such comments.

• jwdunne 9y ago
  I also recommend a visit to the new submissions section. There's a lot more there too.
• dredmorbius 9y ago
  There's some stuff that shows up there, but surprisingly little. I've been browsing "showdead" for quite some time. My main complaint is that there's no obvious way to tell if an account has been shadowbanned or not. I'll report questionable instances to hn (via email), and on something like 3/4 of cases, the account has been, though it's not clealry evident. I'll vouch for some flagged items. Flag others. Generally I think the comment ranking is pretty good. There's a tendency for somewhat fluffy comments to be excessively highly rated, but as compared to other systems (say, Reddit), HN compares favourably. There's also a slight tendency for the hivemind to punish critical, but valid, comments. But again, compared to most other systems I've seen, not particularly, and the situation often evens out.