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> This is an impossible task and you know it. Asking your opponents to enumerate every dead comment on a thread with hundreds of comments is not approaching the issue in good faith.

No, it's not impossible. I count 15 dead now, not "hundreds" (when I said that originally, it was about 5).

Let's make it easy: why does bigbacaloa's go, and all the others stay?

>>Albert+(OP)
I was prepared to disagree, but actually I don't see what the problem is with that post.

Here it is, so others don't have to dig around for it. It appears to have been a top level comment.

"This pseudo-apology is the worst sort of political expediency. He did what the government asked while denying doing it, now apologizes for it to curry favor with the rightwing world he alienated. It's like the NY Times pushing the weapons of mass destruction narrative during the Iraq war and later running long articles about what bad journalism that was."

>>useful+H3
This post is dead not because this post was flagged. It is dead because the user was shadow-banned some time ago.

Whatever they post now shows up as dead

>>Albert+(OP)
Because of this (and I agree it should be banned):

>>37421874

>>useful+H3
Another point of evidence of why HN is great. Even reading this point in this argument had me thinking and wondering why it was banned and then the moderator comment right below (but can't be replied to?) explains the reasoning.

One of the best uses of HN for me is watching my brain jump to conclusions only to have them slapped down by a well thought out counter argument.

This forum isn't perfect but I haven't found a better public discussion board on the internet. Hat tip to the moderators and others making this happen. Your work is appreciated.

>>soneca+O4
If the comment is not a comment that should be dead, then the shadow-ban is not helping HN.