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Comments count includes deleted comments, which it shouldn't
Using this post purely as an example, because I'm quite sure that the problem is general. Observe:
At first, we are told that there are "4 comments":
Expanding inline, the summary says 4 of 4 comments are being shown, so where are the other three?
The mystery is resolved once one goes to the full thread page, instead of looking at the inline view:
The number of comments as being reported in the inline comments view / post UI should match what's actually visible to the user. In the above example, the "General comments" thread would be reported as having only one comment; if one navigates to the comment thread page, then it might be reasonable to also indicate the existence of the three now-deleted comments, but since those are invisible to pretty much everyone, they shouldn't be included in the comment count.
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We fixed the inconsistency a different way. Instead of computing the numbers for all threads at page-load time, we still report the full number of comments, but when you expand the comment thread you see that there are deleted ones, like this:
Expanding the thread now accounts for all of the comments so the numbers add up. I can't find an example right now to confirm, but I believe that if there are lots of comments and some early ones are deleted, you'll still see five (undeleted) comments along with the "skipping N" entries.
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