Questions tagged [deleted-comments]
For questions about comments that were deleted, deleted comments in general, or the comment deletion process
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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:
An ...
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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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Let moderators delete comments while reviewing
Moderators can delete comments from Q&A pages by hovering over them; a red link appears, similar to how deleting one's own comments works:
However, this functionality is not available in the ...
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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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"Bot" label appears next to my username when I delete a comment posted by the Community bot
On this post:
A user asked an off-topic question
The community closed it
An irrelevant comment was posted by the Community Bot
I (a moderator) deleted the irrelevant comment
My username in the ...
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Why wasn't this No Longer Needed flag automatically marked as helpful when the comment was deleted?
There's something strange going on with a comment under this question:
How do you find how many questions have been asked on a given site?
Timeline (September 17th, 2021, UTC):
16:45:10: created by @...
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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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Should moderators be able to undelete any comment, including self-deletions?
Moderators were granted the ability to undelete comments, primarily to make cleaning up long comment threads more efficient. The idea was for the moderator to purge all comments, then selectively ...
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Can we have a "toast" notification when visiting a direct link to a deleted answer/comment?
Background:
Because users with <10k reputation cannot see deleted posts, visiting a link to a deleted answer, silently opens the parent question without a clear indication that the linked answer ...
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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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