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If a comment URL is pasted to chat will the message be retained if the underlying comment is deleted?
Let's say I paste a comment URL such as:
https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/100303/what-are-christian-responses-to-graham-oppys-argument-for-atheism-from-naturali#comment284517_100303
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Why did all the comments under my answer disappear? [closed]
I have an answer to one of the questions (link) and many comments were there. Now every comment disappeared while the comments under the other responses are still there.
What might have happened? Is ...
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Moderators can delete comments on any post but not undelete them prior to signing the moderator agreement
Is it expected behavior that an elected (but before accepting the agreement) moderator can delete any comment on the post, but unable to undelete them? Even for my own comments I got the error:
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I was notified of and viewed a comment, but the notification disappeared from my global inbox, and it isn't in the site's comment responses list [duplicate]
I commented on Session cookies seem to get lost and then, later while on another site, I was notified about Aaron Bertrand's comment reply. After responding several minutes later and, because I ...
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Make short "saved my <time>" comments single-flag-deletable
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The vast majority of short-length comments containing the substring "save" and certain units of time (hour, day, week, life) are useless (see "When shouldn't I comment" and ...
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"Show X more comments" link appears even when there is nothing to be shown [duplicate]
My flag "It's no longer needed" was accepted for four comments under this question: Safeness of changing proto field number
After deletion, when I revisited the post, it showed "Show 2 ...
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Can you @ping a user after they have deleted their last comment? [duplicate]
You can use @<user> to ping/notify a user that has commented previously. But if they have deleted their last comment do they still receive notifications if another user @-pings them in the same ...
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I should be allowed to delete as many of my comments a day as I choose to
I appreciate everyone who is trying to find me a suitable work around or explain to me the dangers of deleting too many of my comments, but you’re missing my point. The simplest way to “fix” my ...
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Automatically remove all non-meta comments after a certain amount of time
Update: I was involved in some very useful discussion in comments under @tinkeringbell's answer. It helped clarify some of the arguments against automatic deletion. If there's interest in this ...
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Do you get a notification if your comment is deleted? [duplicate]
Basically the title is the question: Do you get a notification if your comment is deleted?
I couldn't find the answer in the help center or here on meta. But I'm pretty sure that I had comments under ...
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Notification about "I added the info you asked for" comment
On one hand, comments like "I added the info you asked for" should be deleted, as discussed here.
On the other hand, if they get deleted, the previous commenter who had asked for the info ...
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Flag comments "please edit to clarify X", "done" for deletion?
Should comments like "please add details of X to your answer", "done" be flagged for deletion?
Deleting them would improve readability of the thread. The answer-relevant ...
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A system to undelete useful comments?
Sometimes a good question is deleted because a few people think it adds no value. Sometimes a good answer is deleted because a few people think it is not fit according to them. But there's the option ...
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Correct way to get rid of old unnecessary comments
What is the correct way to get rid of old unnecessary comments?
I often visit one of my old posts and see that the comments have become "unnecessary", I then want to get rid of those comments.
The ...
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How do I delete all my comments?
I want to delete all of my comments, but the https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/comments/$ID/delete API method has a limit of 20 deletions per day.
I don't want to call it every day for months, so is ...
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