There's a new Response to my Declaration! I should go see what it is so I can respond to the concerns of my would be constituents!
Except, the newest response I see is my own. From over an hour ago, not a mere 6 minutes ago.
Going to the "Responses" tab on my profile reveals not just one, but two(!) comments that are nowhere to be seen on the elections page.
Anecdotal evidence in chat suggests that this is happening to other candidates as well. This is a horrible bug. Please fix it.
This is fixed now. There are a couple of things going on when we decide to limit the number of comments shown. We have a site setting that sets a fixed limit, which is the limit @GraceNote was referring to in his answer. However, that limit interacts with another thing we do, which is do a rollup of "top comments" because we don't want one of our blessed users' pithiest pithiness to be lost below the fold, to the detriment of all who seek wisdom. So, in the event that there are comments that have been upvoted and there are also more than {comment-limit}* comments, we cause the upvoted ones to rise to the top so you won't miss them.
In the elections situation, we just weren't counting correctly because the view model for the elections view wasn't being populated completely. Ergo, we just chopped off the comments that were beyond the limit.
* the limit is 15 by default, but can be configured site-to-site
We did some testing and it appears that the issue was on comment limits. Election nominations only show up to 15 comments before expansion. However! There's no button to expand comments!
Posting a new comment auto-expands which is why people could see things only when commenting.
As a bandaid, we've increased the comment limit to 40 for now, but we're going to look at a more robust solution. Most likely adding back the ability to expand comments. Hence I'm not going to status-completed this until we're happy with our solution.
