I still can see your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18557415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18557415 (think you meant this one). I believe

I still can see your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18557415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18557415 (think you meant this one). I believe comments aren't removed here at all. There are some comments which are objectively useless/offending in many threads and they're just flagged but never deleted, so I doubt they'd remove yours when it's a valid technical critique (if perhaps it can be expressed less harshly).