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@rene Huh. Okay then.

See wikipedia has this trick for flushing server caches: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?action=purge

I just wondered if it there was a command for fixing it without editing.

@rene I rolled back and the issue didn't reappear; it was a one-time glitch I think.

@rene Fixed. Is it a bug? It could just be a one-time glitch.

@rene see tags & userbox at the bottom of the question: stackoverflow.com/questions/904502/…

Hi is there a way to refresh the cached copy of a Stack Exchange page (like Wikipedia's 'purge' command) without making an edit to it? I found a page that seems to have glitched out.

@gunr2171 Okay, then I'm still trying to figure out the purpose of 766. It seems to just be a handy queue-jumping system.

@gunr2171 Wait, which chat room? Is 766 for specific tags of questions?

@gunr2171 I'd never thought of that before, but you're right, it's another reason why the automatic vote deletion is totally absurd.

@rene Aren't there about a hundred thousand of those?

I find that voting to close things on SO works incredibly badly because most of the time the votes just get deleted. Should I never use that feature, and just post links in that chatroom instead?

So I don't understand the difference in purpose.

It's not which?

Hi. Question about the Closevotes chat room. Is its existence an admission that the close review queue on Stack Overflow doesn't work well? Or is its purpose different?

@cVplZ No!

@AndrewT. Good idea. I'll make a scrapbook. Or a screensaver, if scrapbooking is too passé now.

@JasonC I object! I don't get all of it from comments.

Google's cache didn't save the thank you comment, so I can't even read it to quietly bask in the glow of my usefulness, and now the user has deleted their account. Bah.

@InfiniteRecursion My constructive solution, that I would heartily recommend to everyone, is to wait 12 hours until a different timezone rolls around then repost the comments when whatever mod that deleted them or turd that flagged them has gone offline.

@cVplZ I have always disagreed with the notion of comments being temporary. It's a stupid idea at worst, since comments are often the only way to convey the train of thought that leads to solutions; and wishful thinking at best, since the gigantically overwhelming majority of comments are never deleted, nor will they ever be. But, oh, if they fall into the category of friendly thank you, BANG! You're dead!.

I find it ridiculous how long legitimate flags take to get handled, and how sometimes things have to be repeatedly flagged to be sorted out due to them being bizarrely mis-handled, yet the mod system has all the time to go stalking down and obliterating friendly thank yous.

They are manifestly not "too chatty" because I was going to delete them later, nor are they against community consensus nor any clear rule, apparently.

I'm so irritated by the deleted comments.

I've actually had people thank me for telling them about the accept answer feature in some cases.

@AndrewT. That has never happened.

There are a whole bunch of similar meta threads indicating that consensus is telling people about the accept answer feature is considered good: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14994

@AndrewT. It most definitely adds value. If it weren't for thank you comments I wouldn't bother coming to Stack Overflow any more.

Also I have always furiously disagreed with the rule about not leaving thank you comments. I'll thank the people I wanna thank.

I was the only answer in both cases.

That's odd, I thought, I must have forgotten to click submit. I reposted it definitely, and also made the same comment in the same situation on a different q/a. Now I see that both my new comments are gone, and so is one of the thank you comments I was replying to. Is pointing out the accept answer feature banned now, or the site acting screwy, or what's up?

Okay... I'm having a problem with comments disappearing. A new user left a thank you comment my answer to their question. I posted a comment "Consider accepting this answer if it solves your problem". I noticed a while later that the comment wasn't there.

Hi.... is this a good place to ask for Stack Overflow mod help?