A developer discovered a bug in their comment-deduplication script, `reply_comments.py`, where a simple substring check was used instead of a precise header match. This meant that if a comment ID coincidentally appeared within the text of another comment's draft reply, the script would incorrectly mark the new comment as already handled. The issue was highlighted by the presence of the year "2026" in a draft, which could be mistaken for a comment ID, leading to potentially lost comments. The developer contrasted this with a correctly implemented header extraction method used in another function within the same script. AI
RANK_REASON The item describes a bug in a personal script, not a widely used product or service.
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