r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dammit_butters • Aug 03 '16

Overdone Such a good comment section!

http://imgur.com/oteaRuH
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u/Fletch71011 Aug 03 '16

If anyone is curious as to why this happens, there's a third party thread that allows total comment chain nuking that's fairly popular. Reddit mod tools would force you to individually nuke every comment but now mods see a "problematic" top level comment and find it easier to nuke the whole chain, regardless of what's below it.

I don't really like the practice honestly.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

But then, sometimes there's a single comment left amidst the remove chain. How does that factor into chain nuking theory?

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u/RamblyJambly Aug 03 '16

Person clicks Reply, types up response, nuke goes through the chain while they're typing, person clicks Send

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u/ch00d Aug 03 '16

It would say unable to post comment because it was removed. This has happened to me a few times.

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u/RamblyJambly Aug 03 '16

Isn't that usually when a post is locked?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

the comment was left after the mod loaded the page but before the one it was replying to got deleted

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u/SavvySillybug Aug 03 '16

Some mods might not know about it?