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by fuzzfactor 319 days ago
Looks like your initial text comment went dead (got killed) before it had a chance to raise the constructive comments there are now.

Hope it was not a downvote-a-bot or autonomous flagman gone rougue ;)

So right now on first visit or page refresh this whole page appears to be nothing at all, not even ultra-light dead text followed by nothing.

This almost never happens.

When it does, unfortunately in those cases the reason is that there are usually no constructive comments :(

The user has to click to the right of your username to see the current number of comments under it or there is no other text at all on the page when it's like this.

If someone else makes a top-level comment (like mine here) it should at least show up as something on the page, because it's not underneath your original top-level text.

Maybe re-submit at another time, which some times or days are expected to be better for gaining generous input for projects compared to plain news.

Probably also a good idea as progress is made to resubmit when you have a major milestone that you are proud of. Especially if it answers some questions even if it draws a few more. The pride in your work shows through and can make the interaction even more engaging than you already are.

Doing what looks like to me like a respectable job on a more difficult project than most would undertake, this should not go un-noticed :)