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Jason DeVito comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6417)

Jason DeVito — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:56:48 -0700

@ figueroa

I'm the person whose answer you accepted. I can add that I never got the orange envelope message letting me know you left comments, just in case this helps in diagnosing the problem.

José Figueroa comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6413)

José Figueroa — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:56:30 -0700

Are you sure you successfully submitted those comments?

Well, that's the question, isn't it? I thought I had, but cannot say for sure. All I know is that I did what I normally do and these are the first comments of mine which disappear inexplicably.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6412)

Anton Geraschenko — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:52:59 -0700

I also left two comments, one of them explaining why it was that I accepted the question I accepted. However these comments are not there now.

According to the database dump, neither your question nor any of the answers have any comments on them (not even deleted comments). Are you sure you successfully submitted those comments?

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6410)

Anton Geraschenko — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:08:34 -0700

First my rep points disappear, now my comments... I'm starting to feel victimised here :)

It is pretty weird. I'll download a database dump and see if I can figure out what's going on.

José Figueroa comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6408)

José Figueroa — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:45:45 -0700

This morning I upvoted answers to my question http://mathoverflow.net/questions/29309/smoothness-of-frame-bundle-of-global-orbifolds-reference-request and also accepted one of the answers. I also left two comments, one of them explaining why it was that I accepted the question I accepted. However these comments are not there now.

Has anyone deleted them?

First my rep points disappear, now my comments... I'm starting to feel victimised here :)

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6218)

Anton Geraschenko — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:10:57 -0700

I don't see any unexpected deleted comments in the database. There must have be a human/computer/internet error in submitting them.

Georges Elencwajg comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6203)

Georges Elencwajg — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:33:07 -0700

Thanks, Anton.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6201)

Anton Geraschenko — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:41:58 -0700

The behavior of spam/offensive flags is explained in this meta.SO post. I'll grab a database dump later today to see if the vanished comments ever made it to the MO server.

Georges Elencwajg comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6199)

Georges Elencwajg — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:57:49 -0700

Thanks for the explanation, Scott. I can imagine having writtten the comment and forgotten to click on the submit button: if that's what happened, I apologize for the fuss.

Scott Morrison comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6197)

Scott Morrison — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:35:24 -0700

Not me (this time)! It requires moderator powers to delete a comment. There's also a mechanism to flag a comment as offensive or spam, and I've never been entirely sure how that flag resolves. Nevetheless, none of your comments were in the spam bucket when I just looked.

Georges Elencwajg comments on "Who deletes comments?" (6194)

Georges Elencwajg — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:52:12 -0700

A few hours ago BCnrad and I exchanged a few comments related to my answer to Andrew Critch's question "Extra principal Cartier divisors..."
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/28553/extra-principal-cartier-divisors-on-non-noetherian-rings/28566#28566

These comments have now disappeared. I suppose BCnrad deleted his since (for once!) he expanded them into a complete answer. But I wonder what happened to mine. I am not in the least complaining , since my comments now would make no sense and anyway they were essentially (deserved) compliments for BCnrad's awesome expertise, so it is definitely not I who am harmed by the deletion. Yet I am curious to know who erased these comments.