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Keith
Keith

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Dev.to - are my comments getting a auto "Heart emoji"

Not been on here for long but did a few comments now and something has been frustrating me, every time I post a comment it has 1 heart already, I could deselect one so the heart is assigned to me?

Can this be removed? feature or bug?

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Ben Halpern

This is on purpose since you probably want your comment to receive the ranking juice associated with a like. So we give you your own like automatically.

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Keith

Ok thank you, I will stop un-liking my own comments. Felt like bit of a douche liking my own things.

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Ben Halpern

Always looking to get it right and also make it more clear. So thanks for bringing this up. It's sort of inspired by the Reddit default of auto-upvoting your own posts, even though the context here is a bit different.

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Dave Blythe (he/him)

yup, me too

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Iain Samuel McLean Elder

It wasn't until this happened to me the second time that I realized there was no way the author could have read my comment so quickly.

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Omar Alsawaf

yes