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I found the cause of comment rot. There was an old legacy setting that I didn't know what it did. It was among the last of the things to trace out in the code. I traced it out and found the offending code that was deleting comments and entry properties (status, userpic, etc) and removed it. Please let me know in THIS post if any NEW comment rot occurs after this post.

This has been a very very long and trying road and I want to thank all of you who have stuck it out here in spite of this major bug.


sub new_entry_cleanup_hack {
my ($u, $jitemid) = @_;

# sanitize input
$jitemid += 0;
return unless $jitemid;
my $ownerid = LJ::want_userid($u);
return unless $ownerid;

# delete logprops
$u->do("DELETE FROM logprop2 WHERE journalid=$ownerid AND jitemid=$jitemid");

# delete comments
my $ids = LJ::Talk::get_talk_data($u, 'L', $jitemid);
return unless ref $ids eq 'HASH' && %$ids;
my $list = join ',', map { $_+0 } keys %$ids;
$u->do("DELETE FROM talk2 WHERE journalid=$ownerid AND jtalkid IN ($list)");
$u->do("DELETE FROM talktext2 WHERE journalid=$ownerid AND jtalkid IN ($list)");
$u->do("DELETE FROM talkprop2 WHERE journalid=$ownerid AND jtalkid IN ($list)");
}
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Edit: After looking at the code even more closely I am sure that this was the cause, I think we can call comment rot a closed issue. Now to getting to writing a mass icon uploader.
  • This is the comment rot issue that was posted about on the front page. It was a bug in the site that has since been corrected.
    • Yeah, I get that, but I also got that before the comments got deleted from my thread. I understand that you're saying that they were already gone, but how am I supposed to tell which threads are going to disappear if I click on the comment link?
      • Unfortunately there is no way to tell. As I said the comments are already gone, but there is no way to identify which posts they have been deleted from. You might just want to check all of your posts. Just because there is a number next to the entry saying there is comments there doesn't mean that the comments are still there, it just means that number was never updated after the comments were deleted by the comment rot issue.
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