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I don't know whether this is network-wide or just on SO, but chat doesn't onebox meta.se comments when I've come to the post through the Meta newsletter and so ?newsletter=1&nlcode=x is in the URL

It should!

i.e.

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236552/ignore-american-and-british-
english-spelling-differences?newsletter=1&nlcode=83%7ca920#comment775901_236552

vs

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236552/ignore-american-and-british-
english-spelling-differences#comment775901_236552

It took us a while in the Lounge to figure this one out, which therefore must be deemed to violate the principle of least surprise.

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    POLS? Sorry, but can you spell that out?
    – Oded
    Jul 17, 2014 at 11:52
  • @Oded: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment
    – Lightness Races in Orbit
    Jul 17, 2014 at 13:37
  • Ah. Familiar with the principle, not the acronym.
    – Oded
    Jul 17, 2014 at 13:43
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    Also breaks for lots of other querystrings. The one for duplicate / related links is particularly annoying in this regard.
    – Shog9
    Jul 18, 2014 at 5:15
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    @Shog9 the related link one should now be fixed; comments is trickier - looking
    – Marc Gravell
    Sep 1, 2014 at 13:14
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    This acts differently now. The onebox occurs, but it results in the question being oneboxed, not the linked comment! Only noticed it today; it could be new behaviour from, off the top of my head, the last week or so?
    – Lightness Races in Orbit
    Oct 7, 2014 at 23:43

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