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Thanks. I posted about 1000 words below on this account and signed in on my non-anonymous account and they're completely invisible. I've been on here 4 years guys and just don't really want the world to know I have cancer. So would be nice to at least let it be visible and get downvoted rather than effectively delete something I took a good 20 minutes to write.

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Your anon account got hit by a spam filter. Sorry; those are tuned more aggressively for new accounts. We've unkilled its comments and marked it legit so this won't happen again.

We're soon going to release a feature that will allow community members to unkill dead comments, so fixing this kind of situation won't depend on mods happening to see it for too much longer.

The only reason we knew about this to fix it was that a user helpfully sent an email. Please, everybody, follow the guidelines and let us know about problems that way, rather than complaining about them in the threads. It's physically impossible for us to read all the threads; there's far too much content.

Thanks.

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