having done some more work on making Drupal Froums look nice and work more like a forum, I noticed a potential bug in the way Drupal handles pagination on comments. If you have a node with many comments and you have enabled comment pagination, you will notice:

• After posting a comment in, you are redirected back to page 1, on a multipaged forum topic this is really annoying.
• Permalinks to comments do not work because the comment_form_submit does not pass in the query (page number)
• Changing the comments per page will generate a different permalink for each comment, without creating a dedicated callback and redirecting the user to the specific post (comment/permalink/comment_ID), there doesnt seem to be a fix for this

It is easy enough to redirect the user to (node/NODE_NID?page=PAGE_ID#COMMENT_ID) after a comment gets submitted. Here is what I did:

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