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I have showdead enabled, and in my experience, the only dead comments are ones which violate the site guidelines or are otherwise Bad Posts regardless of the po
by ImPostingOnHN 1y ago
I have showdead enabled, and in my experience, the only dead comments are ones which violate the site guidelines or are otherwise Bad Posts regardless of the political affiliation of the poster. Stuff like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689291
- LexiMax 1y agoI also have showdead enabled and in any remotely controversial thread, among the uncontroversial Bad Posts you will find a reasonable number of posts that are well argued and have effort put into them, but get downvoted anyway. There are a number of reasonable posts in this very thread that are either already dead or on their way out - and I don't even agree with some of their positions.
- ImPostingOnHN 1y agoMaybe some examples from this thread of the actually dead ones?
- Karrot_Kream 1y agoAny post bringing up any context behind CZ's behavior that makes crypto or CZ not sound bad is getting downvoted.
- ImPostingOnHN 1y agoMaybe some examples from this thread of the actually dead ones?
- NoGravitas 1y agoI have showdead enabled, and ime it's a pretty fair split between truly bad comments and merely unpopular ones. I use the vouch button pretty often.