HACKER Q&A
📣 ocimbote

What Does “* * *” Mean in Comments?


Hi, as per the title, I see more and more people commenting "* * *" as their sole contribution.

What does it mean?


  👤 mtmail Accepted Answer ✓
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34719677 - "The software displays "* * *" when the comment is neither dead nor deleted, but the viewer doesn't have permission to see the text."

And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34694341 - "In the future, please do as https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ask and send such questions to hn@ycombinator.com"


👤 dpkirchner
I haven't seen this. Maybe they're editing comments they can't delete because of replies?

👤 slater
Weird, someone else was posting the same question a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34694341

Maybe check your browser's addons/extensions?


👤 slater
Can you give us a link to such a comment?