Comment by Thorrez

>I wish there was a way to just disable the feature so those of us who don't trust it could continue to see and interact with flagged comments.

>I don't know what "dead" comments are

You can enable showdead in your HN settings to see the comments. You won't be able to directly reply to them, but you can vouch for them, which when I do it, generally brings them back to life.