FWIW, what I would do in such a situation is click on the permalinks from the cache. Regardless of the situation, that would be a useful additional piece of information to show us. If the comments have been deleted, that would yield a confirmation. An intermediate possibility is the comment would still exist at their permalinks while not appearing on the post. But then the permalink would be more useful to us than the cache.
When I look at LW, each comment has a line of links at the bottom: Vote up | Vote down | Permalink | Parent | Report | Reply (illustration by cata). When I look at your google cache link, it has all of those links, except Report, probably because google is not logged in. (And links from the cache go to the real pages, not to more cache.)
The comments are visible to me.
FWIW, what I would do in such a situation is click on the permalinks from the cache. Regardless of the situation, that would be a useful additional piece of information to show us. If the comments have been deleted, that would yield a confirmation. An intermediate possibility is the comment would still exist at their permalinks while not appearing on the post. But then the permalink would be more useful to us than the cache.
What’s a permalink from the cache, and where would I find it?
When I look at LW, each comment has a line of links at the bottom: Vote up | Vote down | Permalink | Parent | Report | Reply (illustration by cata). When I look at your google cache link, it has all of those links, except Report, probably because google is not logged in. (And links from the cache go to the real pages, not to more cache.)