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Off topic: The response of dragontamer is one example about why down votes alone are not enough. It was downvoted to the dead level and now nobody can reply to
by pmelendez 9y ago
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The response of dragontamer is one example about why down votes alone are not enough. It was downvoted to the dead level and now nobody can reply to it. But also nobody gave the reason why what he was saying is incorrect.
- dragontamer 9y agoHuh, that's literally never happened to me before. Seems like an odd way of holding a discussion. Anyway, I'm still here to defend what I've stated down there. I admit that there's a lot of shortcuts in thinking in my post, but I'm trying to keep it short so that people's time isn't wasted reading my comment.
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- gumby 9y agoI agree. I read HN with dead comments not suppressed and I estimate about 50% of the time I consider them legit. Not always what I agree with, but sometimes I even want to reply to them.
- noxToken 9y agoIf you think a dead comment should be seen by the community, vouch for it. It's a way for the community to help moderate the discussion by allowing habitual offenders to still input relevant discussion.
- gumby 9y agoOnce it's marked dead (and not simply downvoted to 0) I don't see a way to upvote it back to life nor a way to reply to it. Perhaps other people do. Otherwise I would definitely do so!
- dang 9y agoIt wasn't downvoted, it was killed by software because that user is banned. We ban accounts that violate the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). In such cases future comments are dead unless someone vouches for them, which gives good comments a pathway back to visibility and means that bannage isn't a one-way street.