The screenshot shows comments somehow being nested multiple levels without an intermediate parent. That's a bug, right? Nesting should only be increasing by one level at a time.

I've observed this happening a ton across many different threads. There's also some weird cases where the top level comment is just a link to "show parent" and... It's not actually top level??

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[โ€“] 24 points 3 years ago (2 children)

My understanding is it has to do with deleted comments not having a placeholder, so the comments you do see look like they're nested strangely

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    This comment is in reply to a comment I deleted in order to test this theory.

    This comment's parent is this comment. And its content is:

    This is a comment I plan on replying to and deleting to test this theory

    This comment's parent's parent is this comment. And its content is:

    My understanding is it has to do with deleted comments not having a placeholder, so the comments you do see look like they're nested strangely

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I used to see "comment deleted by user" or something like that, has that gone away?

    Also the issue I've noticed pretty often recently is that there are apparently replies to a comment, but I click to view them and it disappears. That happened with your comment, did you have any replies before mine?

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