Journal BandwidthHog's Journal: Slashdot Deleting Comments? 1
I noticed something weird today. I often read slashdot threads once they’ve matured a bit, as I can often pick up a lot of useful information once the moderation system (such as it is) has done its work and some thoughtful discussions have taken place over a few days. But that’s not the weird part.
The weird part is that the front page summary for a particular article, which has been cached locally by Opera for some time now, shows 300 comments. Yet when I hit the thread itself, there are 299 comments at the -1 threshold. What gives?
Granted, I have only a passing familiarity with the internals of Slash, but what I do know fails utterly to explain such a thing. I know some of the people that may see this have a better understanding of the guts of this thing; do any of you know how to explain a mismatch like this?
Now here’s my favorite part, the (slight) irony: the article in question is one on fake news stories.
I wouldn't think too much about it (Score:2)
Many times Slashdot tells me on the front page that there are x of y comments where y is less than x.