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Curious, so I turned on shadowdead, but what does it actually do?

• chrononaut 5y ago
  From my understanding, with that option enabled HN will now show you all the comments (and submissions) that are marked [dead], which are not visible by unregistered users and users that do not have that option enabled. Comments are marked [dead] due to being flagged by too many users, or the user is shadowbanned, which I believe means their comments default [dead] unless vouched. I may be mistaken here.
  • throwanem 5y ago
    All correct as far as I know. It can be a bit From Beyond at times, albeit sadly impaired by the lack of Jeffrey Combs.