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Bug: Comment on an Answer often not visible
Stefan Blom
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When I post a Comment to an Answer in the Q&A forum, often the Comment does not display, unless I post a second Comment. Is this a known issue?
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Viorel 127.3K Reputation points2024-05-17T08:02:43.6833333+00:00 I think that it is known for more than an year.
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Castorix31 91,971 Reputation points2024-05-17T14:15:48.1633333+00:00 Yes, or if I post an answer, then I want to update it because I forgot something, it does not appear and I must wait hours...
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Laurie Stearn 131 Reputation points2026-03-07T09:43:54.65+00:00 A comment to an answer isn't visible after posting or page refresh, yet its count may show up in Profile/Q&A before appearance. On the wishlist (at least for infrequent contributors) is a system generated notification through the browser indicating possible delays. Edit: By comparison this very comment showed up instantaneously!
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Stefan Blom 352.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2026-03-07T11:22:53+00:00 I reported this almost two years ago, I believe it was already known at that time, and I think the issue was subsequently fixed. Maybe the problem is back.
In addition, over the past days, I have seen a lot of slowness in the forums, with user interface buttons missing, pages taking a long time to load etc. It seems that this doesn't affect everybody, though, which may make troubleshooting more difficult.
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Neil D 34,300 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2026-03-07T15:08:29.3766667+00:00 @Stefan Blom your comment shows now on this thread. Are you using a PC/laptop or phone while using the forum?
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Stefan Blom 352.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2026-03-07T17:44:21.5733333+00:00 @Neil D, as I wrote, I haven't seen the issue with missing Comments recently. Laurie reported it.
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Laurie Stearn 131 Reputation points
2026-03-07T19:02:16.6866667+00:00 @Neil D The issue was with this thread: Exchange Online Plan Transferral, response on it has improved now. The bot came late, too, and nuked the posts containing characters grouped by forward slash. All good!
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Neil D 34,300 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2026-03-07T19:31:41.9033333+00:00 I was going to say the AI may be aggressive sometimes and delete posts immediately. Edit: yes I can see where posts were deleted in Exchange Online Plan Transferral.
In future if this happens then post to the Community forum tag > bugs and ask for the post to be reinstated. Please post a link to the question to be sure we can get the right one.
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Stefan Blom 352.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2026-03-07T19:32:15.4866667+00:00 The issue was with this thread: Exchange Online Plan Transferral, response on it has improved now. The bot came late, too, and nuked the posts containing characters grouped by forward slash. All good!
I guess you are referring to the thread at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5811052/exchange-online-plan-transferral ?
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Stefan Blom 352.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2026-03-07T19:34:17.31+00:00 I was going to say the AI may be aggressive sometimes and delete posts immediately.
Good point, the spam filter may be aggressive.
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