It is my understanding that the automatic systems on SE can delete comments for housekeeping reasons.
But are comments with upvotes (or highly upvoted comments over some threshold) deleted in this way ?
Does anyone know ?
Thanks in advance.
It is my understanding that the automatic systems on SE can delete comments for housekeeping reasons.
But are comments with upvotes (or highly upvoted comments over some threshold) deleted in this way ?
Does anyone know ?
Thanks in advance.
I'm not aware of any systems that auto-delete comments. If sufficient users flag a comment it will be auto-deleted or moderators can do cleanup manually, but I think that's it. I couldn't find anything on meta-se about any such system either.
I don't think they are auto-removed, but I certainly hope that they are sometimes removed by moderators. Comments can have a variety of problems even when highly upvoted. In fact, on "hot network question" questions, comments which do not add real site value are often highly upvoted.