DeletionWatcher: answers are never re-watched upon reboot #11539
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area: DeletionWatcher
status: confirmed
Confirmed as something that needs working on.
type: bug
Aaaah! Kill it!
Rewatching an answer upon reboot currently depends on
GlobalVars.post_site_id_to_question[post_site_id]
to have the question ID for the answer. That is only populated in spamhandling.py and is not stored persistently (i.e., it's empty upon reboot). It would be better to store the question ID in the datawatcher pickle, so it doesn't need to be discovered upon reboot (and the question ID isn't available from the SE API unless there's at least one comment (it's available in thelink
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