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I recently got inbox notifications of rude/abusive troll comments from a post I followed. The comments were already deleted by the time I viewed the post from the inbox notification, but they are still showing up in my inbox:

screenshot of undeleted rude/abusive comments

I don't really need to be notified that someone commented:

ugh ughguhgughguhgg uhgguhguhguhg ugh ughu gughughughug ughg uguh ughg frioooooooooooooooooo oooo...

Especially since the comments were already deleted.

(The comments in the above screenshot were from: What is the difference between (these four) sleep states?)

According to an answer at the post, Please clear chat message notifications out of my inbox if the message was deleted as rude/abusive:

So my suggestion: If a message is deleted as rude/abusive in chat, any inbox notifications coming from its mentions should be deleted too.

Captain Picard says "and so it is done".

The change went live earlier this month. If you see any issues, please let us know.

I'm not sure if followed post inbox notifications are also intended to be included in the above feature. This meta post is either a bug report if the above feature is intended to also include followed post inbox notifications, or if not, this serves as a feature request to remove all notifications of comments that have been deleted as rude/abusive from the inbox.

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    And were they ever removed from email notifications of pending comments. See my comment on the quoted answer. Commented Nov 2, 2022 at 7:17
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    Related previous bug report (marked as [status-bydesign] at the time): Deleted comments on followed posts persist in the global inbox Commented Nov 2, 2022 at 14:36
  • The request here is really the bare minimum. However, I really want to see all deleted answers/comments removed as per Deleted comments on followed posts persist in the global inbox because not all rude comments are flagged with that particular reason. Commented Jan 8, 2024 at 19:38

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I wasn’t able to reproduce the issue with comments. From the screenshots, it seems the problem was actually with answers. The inbox notification deletion wasn’t working for new answers on followed questions — but that should now be fixed. Thanks for reporting it!

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