HN Showdead Feature
Users explain how to enable the 'showdead' setting in Hacker News profiles to view hidden 'dead' comments that have been flagged, downvoted, or moderated.
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You can set show dead in your profile, useful feat to see what kinds of dead comments there are.
The comment was flagged dead, not deleted. You can turn on 'showdead' in your settings to see dead comments.
your comments were shadowed "[dead]" probably because you are posting from a new accountyou can enable viewing others' dead comments with 'showdead' in your account settings
You can turn on "showdead" in your account settings to see dead comments.
Their nonsense is already flag'd and dead'd, you'd need to enable showdead in your profile to see their posts.
You can enable showdead in your user settings if you want to see [dead] comments.
Not sure what you guys mean, but one comment was flagged by users (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32428254) sufficiently to become [dead]. You can see [dead] comments if you want to by turning 'showdead' on in your profile. Does that help?
In your HN account setting, activate "showdead" to see flagged comments.
You can see dead comments by enabling showdead in your HN profile.
Turn on showdead in your HN settings. If your comments receive multiple flags (as opposed to downvotes) they disappear, but you can see all dead comments if you have Showdead enabled. The downside is the bottom of busy threads tends to have a lot of spam.