Comment by dang

Vouching for a good comment that happens to be dead is fine—that's what vouching is for. Posting commentary about it is not fine. There are plenty of non-bullshit reasons for comments to be dead, including that an account is banned for having abused the site.

We created vouching because some banned accounts sometimes post ok comments; indeed some banned accounts only do that when they're banned, and immediately start posting abusively the moment they're unbanned. Life is complicated.

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