I think a better way to handle this would be to remove killed comments from the normal thread view altogether, but make them available to anyone ("showdead" or not) by clicking on the comment's timestamp.
Oh I get it. That's actually similar to a change we've been meaning to make, but only for [flagged] comments as opposed to all [dead] ones. I'll think about the latter.
Personally I don't like this idea. If I've chosen to turn on "showdead", why hide dead comments from me? I've explicitly indicated I'd like to see them.
