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Idle curiosity / possibility of post being deleted:
At one point in LessWrong's past (some time in the last year, I think), I seem to recall replying to a post regarding matters of a basilisk nature. I believe that the post I replied to was along these lines:
I believe my response was long the lines of:
At this time, I am unable to find these posts. Am I being paranoid, or was perhaps this thread deleted?
My tactic when trying to find this kind of reference is to use a user page search. If you can recall a suitable keyword then it you should be able to find the discussion here. I couldn't find anything based on 'basilisk' or 'censor', unfortunately.
After more work than I would honestly prefer to put into such an effort, I eventually found this post:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/goe/open_thread_february_1528_2013/8iuo
As a curiosity, this post cannot be found from my user-page, nor can it be found via Wei Dai's app. Fascinating.
What is EY thinking hiding this? Unless... he thinks it's right or might be, but only if we... no, even then, it's best dealt with as quietly as it would be if it were never touched. No one would be thinking about this if it were left open.
It can be found from your user page. Click the Comments tab, go to the bottom and click Next, and (currently) it will be on that page.
As far as I can tell, the Comments tab shows you all of your comments, but the Overview tab omits anything with an ancestor downvoted to -4 or below (and maybe also anything with a banned ancestor).
Deletion by the admins does not hide comments from either "overview" or "comments," at least not today.
Please don't use the word "ban" to refer to deletion of comments. It very often confuses people and make them think users are being banned. Admins do it because their UI uses it, but that's a terrible reason.
This is the supposed Modus Operandi of the admins (or maybe only EY) - making such comments hard to find without deleting them. It has been mentioned here and there and I am fairly sure I experienced a version of this recently when the latest comment in the Open Thread feature on the sidebar stopped showing the latest comment for the duration of this (it could've been a coincidence and it is a decent way to lessen the Streisand effect so I don't blame EY for it)