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The auto-chat link is not appearing in this very, very long comments section (12 comments): https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/261592/25834

(Note: A diamond moderator has since moved the comments to chat and deleted them from below the post, so the issue is not visible with the above link.)

What's up? Has something changed?

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This is mostly just a misunderstanding in how the move to chat link works. It's not so simple as merely "lots of comments on a post". That comment chain was essentially one person leaving several messages in a row - but that's not something that triggers the link.

The link appears when two people are having a conversation with each other. So, you need exactly two people who have written at least three comments each (four on meta sites) within a four hour period. If a third (or fourth) person joins the discussion - then it won't trigger.

That doesn't mean that any additional person on the chat thread will prevent it, only in that period of six messages.

So this would trigger it (if it all happened in four hours):

Person 1, Person 2, P1, P1, P2, P2, P1

But this wouldn't:

Person 1, Person 2, P1, P1, P2, Person 3, P2, P1

What happened in this case was this:

P1, P2, P3, P4, P3 x6, P2 x 2 (five hours later)

So there's no uninterrupted chain of three comments each from two people within a four hour window.

One person monologuing in the comments won't cause the suggestion to be moved to chat.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Thank you Catija. Exactly what I thought had happened. Sorry, I think I was too eager to apply the status-review. \$\endgroup\$
    – Peilonrayz Mod
    Commented Jun 4, 2021 at 16:42
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    \$\begingroup\$ No worries. Good opportunity to document the rules for this somewhere. :) \$\endgroup\$
    – Catija Staff
    Commented Jun 4, 2021 at 16:44

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