Questions tagged [comments]
The comments tag has no usage guidance.
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Exactly why is it that “comments are not for extended discussion”?
I know this is generally a network-wide policy, but I do not quite understand it.
Often discussion of an answer, especially about controversial parts, will help improve it. And, when such a ...
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Etiquette for suggesting changes unrelated to the direct question
If someone asks a question about their original work and posts information about or a passage from it, and you notice something that is not strictly related to the question that could be easily ...
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Can I request a moderator remove comments from my question?
On my most recent question a user in the comments has repeatedly been harassing and trolling me, and though I stopped replying, deleted my own comments back to him, and flagged the comments he posted ...
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Do we have an official policy on answers in comments?
The general policy on stack sites is: Don't answer in comments.
Today I commented on a question that had answers in the comments reminding the (reasonably high rep) user of the policy but I couldn't ...
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What is the best way to update a question?
This is similar to Updating Questions After Receiving Answers but deals with a different sort of updating.
I asked this question Incorporating new people into a critique group
Last night, the new ...
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Why were these two identical spam answers converted to comments?
About eleven hours ago, this question received two near-identical answers, from two separate unregistered accounts, that were quite blatant spam. Both were apparently converted to comments by a ...
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Moving useless comments to discussion
On most other Stackoverflow sites, if you start a useless discussion in the comments, it gets deleted with a comment like "Comments are not for extended discusion. This has been moved to chat."
See ...
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Why was my comment flag on a “Thank you”-comment declined?
I recently flagged this comment as "no longer needed", which reads:
thankyou for the tips.
To cite from the privilege page on "Comment Everywhere":
When shouldn't I comment?
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How Do I Link in Comments?
I'm sorry if this has an obvious answer, but I haven't been able to find it.
How do I link in a comment? I know that if I paste the URL, it will automatically become a link. But I've seen several ...
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Comment, edit, or answer
For this question, I ended up leaving three comments (one on the question and two on different answers). Some content might be reasonably edited into an answer (e.g., replacing "moonless" with "...
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Why the down-votes?
As of right now, the question How much time do you spend writing one page on average? has received zero up-votes and four down-votes.
Number of comments explaining the down-votes? Zero.
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