Browsing with showdead is weirdly revealing. Most dead comments I see are inflammatory but some are just unpopular takes. Often I disagree with them too but I’m

Browsing with showdead is weirdly revealing. Most dead comments I see are inflammatory but some are just unpopular takes. Often I disagree with them too but I’m glad I see them. Most dead top level posts are dead for no apparent reason, and seem to have been dead on arrival. They often look like reasonable submissions, at least browsing shownew which I do regularly. I’d even vouch for many of them but there’s no context for why they’re DOA and I have enough disagreements with HN moderation without blindly going on a vouching spree against mysterious judgments.