send_to_past_comments

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Run a live comment automation on comments that are **already on the post**: the ones it missed because they came before it was enabled, during an outage, or while another tool handled the account. An automation normally reacts only to new comments. How Meta works: a comment can get one private reply, and only within 7 days. Older comments cannot be reached, and a comment another app already answered by DM is refused by Meta (counted as alreadyReplied, not as a failure). Instagram and Facebook only; top-level comments only. mode preview sends nothing: it reads the newest comments and answers eligible (how many would get the automation now) and skipped by reason (mine, tooOld, keyword, alreadyRan, answered, sameAuthor). One person gets it once: when someone commented several times, only their newest comment is answered (sameAuthor counts the rest). **Always preview first, show the person the numbers, and start only after they confirm**, because a sent message cannot be recalled. mode start queues the job: comments are answered a few at a time (Meta allows 750 private replies per hour per account, shared with the live automation), so a large post takes hours. Read progress in get_automation (pastComments), and see each answered comment in list_automation_runs. mode stop halts a running job; disabling the automation stops it too. By default a comment that already has a reply from the account is skipped (answered) and the trigger's public reply is not posted; includeAnswered and publicReply change that. The automation must be live (automation_not_live); one job per automation at a time (past_comments_running); a next-post automation that has not bound to a post yet has nothing to read (past_comments_no_post).