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Comment by falsandtru | Hacker News Reader

I don't know why you start making such belated arguments but the upvotes for that comment indicate that it was much more helpful to the viewer than flagging it to make it unreadable. And it does not avoid any moderation. What moderation was done? Here the flag serves only as censorship. It lacks objectivity and impartiality. Most people can't read what was written, they can only read your argument.

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Moderation isn't driven by upvotes; it's there to compensate for the failures of the upvoting system. If HN could operate by upvotes alone, that would be great—it would be so much less work. Unfortunately, it can't.

A lot of the things you're complaining about have been established practice on HN for many years. If you want to learn how HN works, I'd be happy to help with that. But it's time that you stopped posting off-topic complaints and trying to stir up drama about these things. 18 of these comments in one thread is quite enough.

So what is the avoided moderation and the failures of the upvoting system? Your rebuttal has too many irrelevant new arguments.

All I am saying here is that if some statements can't be read, others can't read the argument. An argument where others can't read one side's statements is not an equal argument. You must at least be able to make every comment you have conversed with readable. Otherwise it is just your speech.

If you want to read dead comments you can go into your profile. To do this click on your username at the top right.

One of the settings is “show dead”. You can toggle that to yes.

Now you will be able to see all “deleted” comments. Both yours and the ones from others that were “deleted”

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