Does anyone know what's going on here?

[james_davis_nicoll]

Unrelated comment: over the last ten or twenty entries in your journal, I'm seeing a disturbing frequency (low, but nonzero) of comments from regular posters that are just totally blank. A few with 'edited at' italic lines, but most not. Posters that I do not recall having a history of posting blank comments.

For example, on this post they are, in order:
realinterrobang's second followup to martianmooncrab's comment
kithrup's followup to neowolf2's comment
realinterrobang's followup to xiphias' comment, and to jhetley's comment
beamjockey's comment (so it's not just followups to comments)

Comments

[jwgh]

I see the same thing, now that you mention it. Some of these blank comments have replies, so it appears that they either were not blank earlier, or don't display as blank to everyone. I tried in a couple of different browsers and it made no difference.

Since some of them are edited that might be a partial answer; except I was under the impression that it's not allowed to edit replies after someone responds to them, and the edits to the entries appear generally to have been made an hour or more before the replies to the entries.

So I'm guessing some sort of LJ glitch. Weird.

I don't see anything obvious on http://status.livejournal.com/ or http://www.livejournal.com/support/ .