There&#x27;s a much better solution than posting off-topic comments like this: click on the comment&#x27;s timestamp to go to its page, then click &#x27;vouch&#x27;. This indicates that the comment shouldn&#x27;t be dead. When enough users vouch for a comment, the software restores it.  (There&#x27;s a small karma threshold, currently 30, before a user sees &#x27;vouch&#x27; links.)<p>In addition, moderators review the vouched-for comments and in many cases have unbanned accounts that didn&#x27;t need to stay banned.<p>amyjess&#x27;s comment was killed by a spam filter. Users vouched for it, so it was unkilled by the time we saw it.