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Presumably those accounts are dead because of repeated rule breaking, not because their specific post in this thread broke the rules. And there might be more dead comments here on average because politics+tech draws a lot of a certain type of commenter(the type of commenter that might get banned)

>>Increa+(OP)
"Presumably" ?? which ones? How do you know?

>>Albert+m
It's a fairly safe prior - Dang does a pretty great job moderating here & I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

>>Albert+m
People generally know from participating in moderation because they flag comments and posts themselves.

>>Albert+m
Some context on a user (bigbacaloa) who made one of the dead comments you've referred to elsewhere:

>>37421874

>>37381905

>>Albert+m
It's possible to search for moderator replies (dang, earlier sctb and pg) to specific userIDs with the syntax:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=<CommentUserID>&by=<ReplyUserID>

E.g., dang's replies to bigbacaloa:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=bigbacaloa&by=dang>

That (presently) turns up two admonishments dating back 11 months and two years: <>>37423572 > and <>>33132910 >.

The first of those (11 months ago) is where the account was banned.

If you have specific questions on accounts, users, sites, comments, posts, etc., which you feel are improperly flagged, killed, or banned, you can always email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com. I do this frequently, usually with suggestions (e.g., title or URL changes), sometimes with questions (earlier today a site which showed up dead, turns out it's a hard paywall, which I eventually tracked down dang's comment on, though not in an easily-searchable way).