Tell HN: You can view flagged comments by enabling “showdead” in your profile

[rewq4321]

I've been using HN for a couple of years now and had no idea about this, so maybe others are in the same boat.

I originally enabled this to check why a particular comment[0] was flagged, but it turns out to be more generally interesting - especially to see the sorts of spam that HN has to put up with. I'm guessing a decent amount of that flagging is automated based on links + age of account.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25049339

[davidsojevic]

You may be interested in this repo that contains some details on the other undocumented features of HN:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

[callinOutLiars]

Wow!!! I thank you!