this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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I just noticed one post had a negative amount of comments showing on it.

Link to post (NSFW): https://lemmynsfw.com/post/230692

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[–] uhauljoe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ironically this post shows -7 for me, and when i came to the comments there were a bunch of removed by user and only one actual comment

[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I deleted a bunch right off the bat to seed a negative count for people to see, I did not know (though I should have) that people would keep doing it.

[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a known lemmy bug (not unique to your app), when you delete a comment it puts the comment counter down by 1 every time you hit the delete button, instead of just 1 overall.

This means I can delete the same comment and, before it refreshes, delete it several more times and trick the instance into thinking I've deleted more comments than exist.