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> You should be able to read comments on dead article Showdead is already on but there's no discussion option on some dead articles. For those articles, the

• nkurz 2y ago
  Hmm. You are right that there is no ability to add a comment to an article once it's dead, but you should be able to view all the comments that are there. If I recall correctly, this one had about 15 upvotes but no comments when I vouched for it. I'm wondering you looked at it just before this. If this was the case, you're right that you weren't able to see any comments, but this isn't because it was flagged, but because there weren't any comments to see yet. Here's a sample article to test on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549691. It's flagged dead, but has two comments that I see when I follow the link. And here's one to show what it looks like when there is a flagged dead post without any comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42555040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42555040.
  • WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
    The dead Reuters had a bunch of upvotes and I assumed it had comments. But with no way in, I couldn't be sure.