Why do I see top-level comments that look like replies to other comments? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago by AmbiguousCabbage@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Sometimes I see top-level comments on a post that, from their content, appear to be replying to other comments within the post. Is there some bug that makes them appear as top-level comments rather than replies to the comment they're responding to? Or are people just bad at replying to the correct comment? I never see this on reddit so I'm confused why I'm seeing so many cases of it on lemmy.

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[-] taco_shale032@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Probably people replying to the post by accident, do you have an example?

[-] FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I second that. It'd be cool to have a screenshot or URL to a comment.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 22 hours ago

I've done this by accident before

this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2026

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