It's not that users can't find out that they've been deaded, it's that it requires a little bit of work. If one simply logs out and tries to look at their comm

It's not that users can't find out that they've been deaded, it's that it requires a little bit of work. If one simply logs out and tries to look at their comments, they'll notice it right away. This account that I'm posting under actually started out as a dummy account that I specifically created so that I could ensure that my primary account hadn't been deaded. (This was right after I'd done a couple of very provocative things) Of course, if one makes half a dozen straight comments that never get voted up or down, it should be pretty clear that something is going on. Also, it's worth considering the reason why it isn't made obvious to deaded users why they've been deaded. If you notify a troll that you've killed their account, they simply create a new account and continue. At that point you've effectively accomplished nothing by deading their account, and they whole point is to do something about trolls.