Some PerlMonks posts are hidden

Recently I've noticed that sometimes certain posts don't display when I view them from the higher "thread" view. I gave the search a try, and had a look through the faq but couldn't find anything similar to this issue I'm having.

The reason I'm posting now is I have found an example of the problem... If i view this thread from here: Convert string to decimal to octal I cannot see patt's comments, Re^2: String to decimal to octal and Re^4: String to decimal to octal yet if I click into his posts directly, I can see his comments.

Why is this? I created a dummy post inside <p></p> tags with nothing else, but this was still viewable from the main thread top-level... Could someone shed some light? (i've seen this occur on both IE7 and IE8.)

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Re: Some PerlMonks posts are hidden by Arunbear (Prior) on Aug 17, 2009 at 10:13 UTC
Go to User Settings, then set "Replies header depth" and "Replies text depth" to higher values (e.g. 10)	[reply]
Re^2: Some PerlMonks posts are hidden by desemondo (Hermit) on Aug 17, 2009 at 10:53 UTC
ah of course - that'd be an optimistion thing to reduce the load on the DB... makes perfect sense now. Just my 2 cents, perhaps rather than omitting the reply altogether (with no reason why), the webpage fetcher could inject something like content suppressed due to User Settings \| text/header depth values That would at least tell the user that the message was intentionally not displayed and a hint on where the setting is - and avoid them thinking they've stumbled onto some weird bug or something... of course the admins might disagree with me. Cheers	[reply]
Re^3: Some PerlMonks posts are hidden by Arunbear (Prior) on Aug 17, 2009 at 11:51 UTC
In fact in cases like this, there used to be a message saying Some notes below your chosen depth have not been shown here So it seems a recent code change may be unintentionally preventing the message from being shown.	[reply]