Timeline for I voted mistakenly to close as duplicate. When I realised my mistake, my comment explaining why was deleted.
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| Nov 4, 2018 at 2:04 | comment | added | hardmath | @TheGreatDuck: Various Meta SE threads such as this may provide more insight about the system Comment removal mechanism. | |
| Nov 4, 2018 at 1:35 | comment | added | user64742 | @hardmath "subsequent close votes to that target duplicate result in upvotes on the Comment." well that right there proves that the comment has a reference within the software. Unless similar phrased comments also get upvoted. | |
| Nov 4, 2018 at 1:30 | comment | added | hardmath | @TheGreatDuck: Not as far as I know. The Comment is "owned" by a particular User, and subsequent close votes to that target duplicate result in upvotes on the Comment. | |
| Nov 4, 2018 at 1:27 | comment | added | user64742 | @hardmath oh so the system itself doesn't tag the post id or whatever? | |
| Nov 4, 2018 at 1:26 | comment | added | hardmath | @TheGreatDuck: It is tempting to think that there is a clear cut distinction between the system generated Comments and ones that are manually written. However there are some subtle gray areas. A system generated Comment is assigned to the User who votes first to identify a target duplicate. That User can then edit the Comment as they see fit, and I've done so on occasion to point out strengths or weaknesses in my identification of the dup. On the other hand a User may manually post a Comment with essentially the same content, saying that a previous Question is a "possible duplicate". | |
| Nov 4, 2018 at 0:57 | comment | added | user64742 | The system should only be deleting the auto-generated comments. | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 22:42 | history | edited | hardmath | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added link confirming that is is considered a duplicate of the chosen target
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| Oct 24, 2018 at 16:25 | comment | added | Calum Gilhooley | Light dawns! Although I can't remember for sure (insomnia caused this, and I'm now fading fast!), I have a dim memory that although my close vote was not the first to be cast, it may (so I speculated at the time) have been the first one cast by flagging the question as a duplicate, because I'm almost (not entirely) sure that a "Possible duplicate..." message was automatically generated in the usual way, with my name attached to it, rather than name of anyone who had voted earlier. I did wonder vaguely if my long comment could have gone in tandem with that one. You have made that thought clear. | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 16:13 | vote | accept | Calum Gilhooley | ||
| Oct 24, 2018 at 15:59 | history | answered | hardmath | CC BY-SA 4.0 |