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I unkilled that comment.
Why?! All of lightedman's comments here are terrible, and they're just threatening to dox you here like some angsty edgelord, which is absolutely not acceptable. It deserves to be flagged, as does my response, to be honest. I shouldn't have fallen for the bait. But still, anyone else would likely lose their vouching privileges for that.
Yes, but when people see comments like that which are dead, they often accuse us of having censored them for personal or business reasons. Some people make that accusation with such force that a few readers might believe it, even though it's false. I'd rather preempt the issue by doing the opposite proactively. Also, I suspect it's helpful for regular users to occasionally see the sort of of assault that gets directed at us for trying to keep the peace here.
Edit: oh and there's another reason. It sometimes seems to happen that a user like this is surprised to see that we've treated them more kindly than they expected, and they reform their ways and become good contributors. I'm not saying it happens often, but it's worth giving it a shot.