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Sorry to be so off topic or dumb. I read a user comment about a Freudian observation. The phantom. So I log on and try to reply... Is hn the one who deletes bad hombres? Or is it bad hombres who deletes his posts?

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The post is not deleted, it is hidden. Go to your profile at

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=willsoon

and enable 'showdead'.

The comment still exists but it’s been hidden. I believe as standard you can expand the comment (likely at the bottom) to view it but might need to change some settings to see these comments. Logging in probably refreshed the view and updated the comment to its new hidden status (or your user specific settings kicked in and stopped it displaying)

Whether it’s HN or not, no idea, but it looks to be flagged by other users who can downvote to me though.

edit: someone beat me to it! I should have logged in to refresh the view! :D

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