I’m not a fan of showbanning in general; it feels unethical to some degree. But HN has features like Show Dead, which allow you to opt-in to seeing [dead] post

I’m not a fan of showbanning in general; it feels unethical to some degree. But HN has features like Show Dead, which allow you to opt-in to seeing [dead] posts (at around 15 karma I believe). This means [dead] posts and comments are not fully gone. I browse with Show Dead on, and on the whole, almost every [dead] post and comment deserves to be. If I had seen OP’s post in new I wouldn’t have vouched for it, because (as another commenter points out) it’s not relevant to the site. Similarly OP has several comments in this thread that are [dead] and most of them are not worth vouching for.