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Comment by citricsquid

13 years ago

IDs are sequential, you can predict them with ease. For example (without editing) I can tell you my comment ID (for this comment) will be: 3743005

(edit: nope, I was 3 off, you get the point though, apparently a lot of people are commenting at the moment, ha)

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olalonde  13 years ago

Yes, that's how I did it. Took me about 3 attempts.

youareincorrect  13 years ago

Confirmed.

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