How do I know if my comment was deleted for some reason or if it just maybe didn't take and is lost to the void?
Mostly curious because I had posted a comment to a thread and upon revisiting to scroll through the new comments I realized I didn’t see mine. But I don’t know if it was ever actually there and was deleted or if because of some network/bug issues it never actually posted.
That was where I first checked. Other commenter mentioned a mod log which seems to have no record of it so I am guessing it just was eaten? Unless there is something else going on. I mentioned it to the other person who commented but at the time I first replied to the other users comment Lemmy states there is 5 comments but I only saw 2.
I know there was a bug where comment edits were adding to the new comment count in error. Not sure if that got fixed yet but it could be one explanation for the dodgy comment counts everywhere.
As for your original question tbh I’ve just taken to copying the text of every comment before hitting post, then refreshing the page a couple times to see if it’s really there and if not I can paste it and try again. Brings me back to early 2000s when you could never be sure the forum wouldn’t eat your post, it’s amazing how quickly my automatic copy/paste muscle memory kicked back in!
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