It appears that I do have the "Show context" button (granted it's a little hard to notice at first), but it appears to not be functioning properly. I just tested it in this thread by clicking "Show context" for this comment, and instead of showing me this comment, as I would expect, it instead showed me this comment.
Kalcifer
Can you see if a moderator has removed comments from a thread?
Yes, but it involves sorting through the community modlog.
I wonder if this feature could be implemented -- it would just be another sorting option in comment sections -- assuming that the server actually stores this data.
Can you see the content of the removed comments?
No. Not even mods/admins can.
From what I can see in the modlog, it appears that you can see the content of comments, but just not the content of posts. It seems to treat comments as post titles in the log. What's also weird is that they have links associated with them which appear to point at nothing. Perhaps they are supposed to point to the original comment/post?
Are moderators able to specify motive for the specific removal?
Yes, but to be honest, I have no idea where that reason goes or who it is visible to
It looks like you can see it underneath the removed item in a little bit of text that states "Reason", and then the reasoning.
Go to filter by action and choose “removing comments”
That's only within the modlog, though. I'm talking about withint the comment thread for a post. As I stated:
Also, can you see mod removals within a comment thread? Or is it only in the modlog that you can see removals?
You wont be able to see any reply context?
EDIT: Upon testing here, it appears not. That makes it rather unuseable, does it not?
Cool! However, while it does show the full log of removals, it appears that I can't see the original content of the post -- I can only see that a post with a title was removed. Also, can you see mod removals within a comment thread? Or is it only in the modlog that you can see removals?
I didn't think that it would -- I was hopeful that it might.
It appears that it is not opensource, unfortunately.
Apologies, I did not.
I haven't verified for myself, yet, but other people in this thread who have had the same question seem to commonly be responded to with lemm.ee.
Are you joking? The extent of their thought process is essentially "I don't like their opinions".
Be that as it may, why should people be prevented from questioning it? Isolating people does not make them better informed. Conversation does. All that isolation accomplishes is creating echochambers --which only serves to strengthen their beliefs.
I think it's time to close some of your open tabs.