Not sure why, but HN user "IsaacSchlueter", who purports to be the comment thread moderator, posted an explanation/rebuttal/apology to the OP in this comment thread an hour ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7323010
However, Isaac has been hellbanned...I'll repost just to give him the benefit of the doubt:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=IsaacSchlueter
> We didn't moderate away anything. I am literally the only person who CAN moderate those comments, and I was at a conference all day. 100% of my online time was spent working with my team to figure out the fastest path to a fix. We didn't realize the extent until way too late, and that's bad on us. I apologize. I didn't delete your comment. I'll look at the moderation queue and see if maybe disqus is set to auto-hide after some time or something. I'm sorry for the confusion there.