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Removing deltas for deleted comments #13

Closed ansuz07 closed 6 years ago

ansuz07 commented 6 years ago

Not an issue so much as a potential enhancement.

Deltabot can not use the delete command to remove a delta if the parent comment has been deleted. This is a somewhat common occurrence, where someone will award a delta by mistake and delete their comment, thinking that this will "fix" the mistaken delta.

hallidev commented 6 years ago

I took a look at this, and unfortunately this is something of a Reddit limitation. The Delta award process is tightly tied to a parent comment and its immediate child. Once a parent comment is deleted, DeltaBot isn't able to perform the "unaward" process properly (re: at all).

I don't think this is a limitation I'll be able to overcome programatically, so as a result I will close this issue.