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Why do comment counts often disagree with what I see?
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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It's a distributed system, by its very nature no single universal "truth" exists. That is to say, you can very much see differing counts of ~anything. Or different threads. Or anything, really. There is no way to keep everything consistent, ever.