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Comments on Comment threads remain active even if all comments are deleted

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Comment threads remain active even if all comments are deleted

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In this answer there's a "General comments" thread, but all the comments are deleted.

This is related to - but IMO not the same as - this other post, in which it's discussed if showing that some comments are deleted is useful or not. That discussion is focused on the case where there are still some comments in the thread, but in this specific case, all the comments are gone, and I'm really not sure if the thread should remain active.

Maybe if someone wants to add a comment related to the same subject (considering that the thread has a meaningful title), keeping the thread active would make sense.

On the other hand, why not remove the thread in this case? If someone wants to add anything, just create another thread. Not sure if keeping the thread active will bring any benefits.

I've just found another case. Didn't search for more, though.


As a side note, I've added a comment to that thread and it worked (I've deleted it, as it was only a test).

But now, in the answer it says that there are 3 comments:

3 comments

And in the thread page, it says there are 4:

4 comments

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my understanding of the bug. (3 comments)
my understanding of the bug.
deleted user wrote over 3 years ago

Your title was Comment threads remain active even if all comments are deleted. Actually, our current feature doesn't remove thread if a thread contains 0 comments. Here I found a bug that is the thread is saying Showing 3 of 3 comments. While there's no comment(all of them were deleted). But, If you create a new thread now and, delete all comments than, it will show that showing 0 comments or something just like this.

deleted user wrote over 3 years ago

I believe the buggy thread is showing 3 of 3 comments text cause, the comment was created before the thread feature came. That's why when the thread feature arrived it calculated that there was 3 comments and now save that in database. But, the thread is also saying that Skipping 4 deleted comments.. 4th number comment was created after thread feature arrive. That's why it's not buggy.

deleted user wrote almost 3 years ago · edited almost 3 years ago

You can now write down a comment and delete that then the thread will be automatically deleted (according to recent updates (4 months?)).

Skipping 2 deleted comments.