We (moderators) don't ever delete comments (except in rare cases where a user later asks us to do so for privacy reasons). The most obvious candidate for what

We (moderators) don't ever delete comments (except in rare cases where a user later asks us to do so for privacy reasons). The most obvious candidate for what the parent commenter is referring to is this one, which has been flagged/killed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275838 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275838