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A question that I had commented on was moved from SO to DBA.SE. In the process, it seems that 4 out of 5 existing comments migrated as well. The exception was my highly rated comment, which happened to be the 2nd comment (not the first or last) and may be the only one that was edited. Why would this be?

I believe I'm a member on both sites.

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I have since added the same comment (w/o the DBA.SE link) to the migrated question.

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  • The only thing I can see is that you're the one who suggested the migration... Perhaps your comment was deleted automatically because of that? The algorithm must have thought "operation complete, this comment is no longer necessary".
    – MarioDS
    Commented Apr 30, 2013 at 13:49
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    That's because you mentioned/linked to DBA.SE. The heuristic figured you where talking about migrating, and so removed it.
    – Time Traveling Bobby
    Commented Apr 30, 2013 at 13:49
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    @M.Night: You should place that as an answer.
    – ale
    Commented Apr 30, 2013 at 13:52
  • @M.NightDemonbobby interesting...I had provided too much info by providing the link!
    – Tim Lehner
    Commented Apr 30, 2013 at 13:53
  • The same thing happens if you comment with a link to another question, which the first question then gets closed as a duplicate of.
    – hammar
    Commented Apr 30, 2013 at 14:11
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    This is a harmful feature then. It should be turned off.
    – Pekka
    Commented Apr 30, 2013 at 14:17
  • A relevant feature-request: Don't automatically delete comments with useful content on migration (It starts: "When a question is migrated, any comment that mentions the name of the target site is automatically deleted. This makes sense when the comment is “you should have posted on <site>”, but comments that also contain other useful information [...] also get deleted.")
    – V2Blast Staff
    Commented May 29, 2022 at 2:07

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That's because you mentioned/linked to DBA.SE. The heuristic thought you where talking about migrating, and so removed it.

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