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I accidentally clicked twice and two identical comments were created. I deleted one. Alas, the other seems to have gone rougue as well.

• code_duck 15y ago
  This has happened to me before - I triple posted, then deleted two comments to find that the remaining one was marked dead. I think HN has duplicate detection and dupes get marked dead automatically, so one should keep this in mind when manually deleting duplicate posts. It's good to wait a few minutes and see whether it's already taken care of.
  • jokermatt999 15y ago
    I wonder if this is part of the reason there's a large number of [dead] comments that are perfectly reasonable. Either way, it seems like it would be a much better solution to simply delete the duplicate. If it can be detected to [dead] it, then it should be deletable, right?
  • shii 15y ago
    Also has happened to me. It's why I have showdead on.
  • RyanMcGreal 15y ago
    > I think HN has duplicate detection Seems like a great time for that to kick in is just before posting the second comment.