Unnecessarily uncivil and bizarre posts can be flagged and killed for normal viewers. If you want to see them, you can change the setting in your account (set s

Unnecessarily uncivil and bizarre posts can be flagged and killed for normal viewers. If you want to see them, you can change the setting in your account (set showdead=Yes), but it's not really an improvement to the experience on the site, just a bit of transparency... Also, shadowbanned accounts have their posts dead automatically. If you think the post contributes in a positive way, you can vouch for it (click through to the post page).