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This notification

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seems to be informing me of a new comment, so given that it has no link on the word comment or the speech bubble, I assume the link on the question title is supposed to be a link to the new comment.

But the URL of that link fails to show a comment. It briefly shows

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and then scrolls to

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Manually scanning the comments for the date-time cited in the notification (Oct 20 at 7:29) finds none.

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    My guess: the comment was probably deleted.
    – Rory Alsop
    Commented Oct 20, 2018 at 12:56

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The comment was automatically generated because someone voted to close as a duplicate.

Then, the comment was automatically deleted because the question got closed as a duplicate of that question.

As the comment was deleted, links to it redirect to the parent post.

As for the email notifying about a deleted comment being sent, it might take a little while for unread notifications resulting from since-deleted comments to get removed from the notification bar due to caching and batch-processing. It's likely that the script that generates the email ran before the notification was cleared, and it saw an unread notification and thus sent the email.

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  • Someone didn't think that through, then.
    – ChrisJJ
    Commented Oct 20, 2018 at 17:44
  • @ChrisJJ It might take a little while for unread notifications resulting from since-deleted comments to get removed from the notification bar due to caching and batch-processing, and it's likely that the script that generates the email ran before the notification was cleared, and it saw an unread notification and sent the email.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Oct 20, 2018 at 18:02

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