I browse with Showdead: yes and it seems that quite a number of contributors (natch ~0.01%?) have been caught by this, have had their comments downvoted to get

I browse with Showdead: yes and it seems that quite a number of contributors (natch ~0.01%?) have been caught by this, have had their comments downvoted to get their karma into the negative. There are spammers that this happens to yes, but also quite a few "normal" people who might not have had the HN worldview on an early comment and then continue contributing without realizing or being shown that their comments are being marked dead and don't show to almost all viewers. I would make a new account, make a few vanilla comments that people will agree with and get karma to 10-30 to prevent this from happening. I've seen some number of people with reasonable contributions who appear to be caught unaware by this for months or perhaps a year in some cases. I'd consider it a defect, but ? I see it more often on normal folks than spammers maybe 80/20 There are other situations where I am confused by seeing a normal contributor's comment as dead (different than deleted) out of the blue, they have +karma and won't post dead in the future. I am certainly no social.media.community digerati though, it may work best over all.