OTOH, part of reddit's "value proposition" is as much the content moderation (overzealous removal of comments that some highly opinionated moderator with too mu

OTOH, part of reddit's "value proposition" is as much the content moderation (overzealous removal of comments that some highly opinionated moderator with too much time on their hands happens to disagree with) as it is the content itself - it sounds like Shreddit has a way around the hiding, but if Reddit turned around and undeleted _every_ deleted comment, Reddit would become a very, very different forum (IMHO a better one, but Reddit is what Reddit is).