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Just to be clear the comment was _insanely_ long, like 68 lines and a total of >4000 characters. So HN silently eating such a comment as a form of spam protect
by dathinab 6y ago
Just to be clear the comment was _insanely_ long, like 68 lines and a total of >4000 characters.
So HN silently eating such a comment as a form of spam protections seems reasonable, I just wonder if that really is the case or some unlucky network error or similar got in the way.
- detaro 6y agoI still see the comment, are you sure you didn't just get confused because it wasn't on the first page of the discussion?
- dathinab 6y agoYes, how embarrassing. Due to some non-hackernews related reasons the More button was basically non visible to me.
- detaro 6y agoeasy mistake to make :) I'd be curious how many people aren't even aware that threads can span multiple pages - dang even sometimes pins a comment to remind people at the top.
- krapp 6y agoI think this is one of those areas where the desire for minimalism in the UI works against the site. This is the only forum I've been to where people have to be reminded that pagination exists because making it obvious would violate the site's design ethos.
- dang 6y agoNot just to you. The question comes up for others too. Hopefully before too long we'll be able to just go back to rendering entire pages without More links at the bottom.
- PaulHoule 6y agoIt has links to something other than Wikipedia. That sets off a spam filter for many people right off the bat.
- dathinab 6y agoThanks, I already found out what the problem was. It turns out there is a easy to overlook More button at the bottom of the comment section :-)