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This morning I voted to close C# serialize private class member as a duplicate of Serializing private member data

I can see that I definitely voted to close as a duplicate (this is the only close vote showing for this post):

screen shot of the close dialog

But there is no comment:

screenshot of comments

The sidebar for the question doesn't even show that question as a linked question despite the fact that my duplicate vote and the accepted answer both linked to that question.

What gives?

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    Hypothesis: the same URL was named in a comment by someone else, and that comment has since been deleted. The URL being present already prevents the auto-comment. Commented Apr 17, 2014 at 21:30
  • @MartijnPieters I thought a deleted comment might have that impact (and/or expired close votes), but then why doesn't it show up as linked even though the accept answer links to the question Commented Apr 17, 2014 at 21:32
  • @MartijnPieters That's correct. There's a deleted comment from back in 2010 that linked to the same question. Commented Apr 17, 2014 at 21:34
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    @Adam 28 months later, any updates about fixing the bug? Commented Aug 6, 2016 at 9:58
  • @ShadowWizard I have the fix committed locally, will push it live tomorrow. Commented Aug 7, 2016 at 22:52
  • @Adam awesome! Can you please take a quick look here to see if it's the same issue, or something different? Thanks! :) Commented Aug 8, 2016 at 5:48

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As of earlier today, we ignore deleted comments when checking to see if a "possible duplicate" comment already exists.

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  • What is the reason for it? Commented Apr 9, 2018 at 4:24
  • @IamtheMostStupidPerson It's in the bug report. Commented Apr 9, 2018 at 15:35
  • @IamtheMostStupidPerson That's how the code works with this fix in place. Before the fix, if the "possible duplicate" comment was deleted, we wouldn't create another one even though we should. Commented Apr 10, 2018 at 4:22

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