A while back I had a long discussion in comments
probably with somebody on the answer to this
 one  https://superuser.com/questions/356545/hard-disks-m-a-r-t-stas-bad-back-up-and-replace

but they were deleted because comments aren't for that, chat is..  This was before a chat link would pop up.

I thought my comments would be nicely stored and had a few links there, only to find the comments gone. 

Is it possible to view the comments.

And why not as a small courtesy, when comments are removed, can't the system post the comments to you, so you at least have a copy of what you commented and they're not gone.