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I don't understand why puhnbbuy777's comment has been killed. It looks like they created a throwaway account so they could admit to unethical behavior. Their co

• dang 9y ago
  I feel like we've had this conversation before? HN has software that kills some comments based on patterns of past abuses by trolls. Sometimes there are false positives. That unfortunately was the case here. Instead of posting an off-topic comment about it, why not just solve the problem by vouching for the original comment? That's why we added that feature: to rescue good comments that happen to be [dead]. All: to vouch for a dead comment, click on its timestamp to go it its link, then click 'vouch' at the top. There's a small karma threshold (currently 30) before such links appear.