Neither. I screwed up the link, then found I’d somehow posted the same reply twice, with the second time including a functioning link. Since there’s no way to actually remove the blank comment—just to strike it out—I thought I might as well leave it.
https://medium.com/on-blendle/blendle-a-radical-experiment-with-micropayments-in-journalism-365-days-later-f3b799022edc
Is this comment supposed to be empty or am I supposed to pay to see it?
Neither. I screwed up the link, then found I’d somehow posted the same reply twice, with the second time including a functioning link. Since there’s no way to actually remove the blank comment—just to strike it out—I thought I might as well leave it.
Joke noted.
It’s possible to delete comments if nobody responded if you reload the page.