Comments are small addendums to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting. Comments are second-class citizens.
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Add automatic comments for every closure reason
tl;dr
There should be a comment automatically appended to a question for every unique close vote. This helps users understand their question is at risk of closure and explains why.
Rationale
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Reviews: Handling invalid -yet good to be added as comment- edits
The problem
I come across a lot of edits where people trying to point out something to the OP. Sometimes it contains useful information that would benefit everyone reading it. Still it is invalid ...
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Mod flag comment no longer shows action taken
It used to be that when, as a moderator, you flag a comment it would get insta-deleted, the reason logged, and the comment deletion would be reflected on the screen.
The functionality appears to be ...
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Someone flagged a deleted comment
I just saw this comment flag in the mod queue:
Note the purple background styling and the lack of a delete button.
Turns out that it's a comment on this post which was deleted yesterday.
This may ...
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Why can't I post this comment? [duplicate]
It is just the string What have you tried?, which is rather a normal question to encourage users to avoid "Give me the codez" type questions. I've tried reloading the page, but am still not allowed ...
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Is down-voting really useful for Stack Exchange sites? An alternative solution
EDIT: Added my thoughts about "downvote as quality info"; removed the part about opinions (thank you Manishearth); explained better the proposal.
The question is already in title: do you think that ...
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Purge all comments feature does not clear the flag indicator
I just purged all of the comments from a post in response to a flag. However, the site is still indicating that there are flags present:
Seems that purging all of the comments is clearing the flag, ...
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Unable to post any answer or comment with UNION - ALL
I've encountered issues posting comments or answers numerous times over the last month, I've narrowed it down that it only occurs when I use UNION and ALL next to each other (ie SQL). If I separate ...
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Should support be provided for ephemeral comments? [duplicate]
I understand and respect the policy against being "chatty" with the comment system, but I think there are substantive benefits to simple "thank yous" and certain other strictly social comments. I ...
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Pointing out shortcomings in comments
In fast way to replace characters in file ignoring comment lines, @anubhava wrote an answer but also indirectly pointed out a shortcoming in @umlaeute's answer. I pointed out how to fix the ...
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Why can't I change my mind more than once? [duplicate]
I upvoted this comment
Then thought about it and came up with a way I believed the comment had not considered (a hidden field and a visible field with the same name), so I removed my upvote.
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On mobile site; provide error message for comments that are too long [duplicate]
When attempting to add a comment on the mobile version of stack overflow that is too long to be allowed simply nothing happens. This is in contrast to the main version of the site where the text below ...
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Add “Should be an Accept” flag for comments
I'm aware of this question, but that one is about a flag for answers instead of for comments.
I've seen some answers from newbies that get answered, and then instead of marking the answers as ...
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This answer has been converted to a comment - while I was editing it
What is this nonsense? I posted a short answer to a question on Stack Overflow. It was a couple of sentences and a link to a reference. Having posted that I went back to add sample code. This took a ...
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What does “selfclear” mean as a comment flag disposition?
I recently flagged a number of comments. I didn't just want all the comments nuked (which I know is easiest), so I flagged just the ones I thought were obsolete or should be removed. Almost all the ...
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Ability to Use Formatting Hotkeys for Comments [duplicate]
In the questions/answers you can markup text easily using hotkeys like Ctrl+B for bolding text, Ctrl+K for code, etc. Why isn't this done for comments since comments use 'mini-Markdown' (just not via ...
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Weird visual behavior when clicking on time of comment on Stack Overflow
Whenever the date at which a comment was made is clicked, the screen scrolls down a little. I don't know why it is doing that. There is no real damage done, but it looks like a bug. It happens on all ...
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Persist “add / show x more comments” state
Would it help to persist the “add / show x more comments” state for a short time, or even provide an option of having all comments expanded fully by default. It would be less of an interruption.
I've ...
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Comment link from one answer of a question to another answer on the same question
I often see comments on a highly rated or accepted answer that looks something like
For an awesome solution to this problem see http://stackoverflow.com/a/blah/blah
Then when I click on the ...
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Comments not getting deleted
I am unable to delete one of the comments that I made. A dialog appears as expected asking me to confirm if I want to delete the comment, but no matter how many times it is clicked, the dialog never ...
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Off putting comments and remarks [duplicate]
Firstly I would like to say that as a learner I am deeply indebted to Stack Overflow and it has saved me many sleepness nights but I have found that I am sometimes reluctant to post a question, no ...
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Pop-up to explain that “@[nameofanotheruser]” being stripped out on purpose (and state why). …or just don't strip it out!
In a similar vein to
System should detect new users mistakenly making repeated same (or similar) edit requests, and provide appropriate feedback
but definitely less important...
I recently tried to ...
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At what point are comments classified as rude or offensive for off-topic questions
I'm honestly looking for some advice on flagging comments, my perspective may need a little refresher. I came across this question Cant change my Username which was off-topic, so I left a comment ...
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Are educational comments good?
Often, users leave educational comments on questions and answers.
What I mean are comments like:
"This answer should be a comment. Please consider reading this post about the difference."
"Hi, ...
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1answer
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Can you get comment banned?
I know you can get question banned by asking enough questions of low enough quality that you cannot continue to post.
I find myself flagging a lot of comments as spam or chatty from a few users on ...
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Vote on related-ness and related-list manual managing
The related-questions is an automatic part of stackexchange. The scripts gather a list of questions that are similar to the one being asked.
At the same time, there are many comments like:
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Would it be feasible to have the OP highlighted in comments and answers? [duplicate]
It's rather annoying to have to scroll all the way back up and check usernames to see if the person who commented "That's not an answer to the question" is the OP (and therefore you should delete the ...
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@ping two users [duplicate]
Why can't we @mention more than one user in a comment? I understand the concern for spam, but the raising of @mentions from 1 user to two could be part of the established user privilege. Many times ...
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I want stackoverflow to add a new feature written following [duplicate]
I searched at google,
site : stackoverflow.com "mysql is deprecated " and got 42 results and this line in google,
In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very ...
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Obsolete comment flags should notify the original commenter in advance of moderators
Simple enough:
The OP is the best judge of whether the comment is obsolete, and has no particular incentive to be unscrupulous in leaving an old comment - and even if they did, chances are this ...
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Comment button invisible or missing. How to fix? [duplicate]
The only options on a question and answer for me are share|edit and Answer (text field). Who are the lucky ones that can comment, how does that work, is there a link or button with 'comment'? what ...
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Two ways we could significantly improve comments and user to user interactions
Two interactions with comments over the last couple days have led me to believe that the overall user experience on SE concerning comments and just general user interaction could be improved.
The ...
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Should I add a comment when I edit my post?
I see a number of posts that have a comment that say "Edited to add the thingamajigger". Are these kinds of comments encouraged? Are they actively discouraged? Is there an appropriate course of action ...
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Where should funny comments be posted? [closed]
While reading answers and comments, I found that some comments are funny and it's nice to have some section on Stack Exchange to post comments.
For example see this comment:
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Ability to search comments would be useful
This has come up a few times in:
How can I search StackOverflow comments?
Add Ability To Search Comments Only
The solutions there were to search using Google. Like MMyers says in the top linked ...
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Can't get any answers and can't contact users who previously answered related questions
I'm trying to solve a problem which only one other person seems to have posted a question about on Stack Overflow and has answered their own question.
The problem is that their answer doesn't ...
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Reputation to comment
There are many new users who do not have enough reputation to comment. Sometimes they post auxiliary questions (like "I also have the similar problem but in my case...") as answers because they can't ...
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Link bug when submitting a comment for an answer [duplicate]
Your shorten-routine for links has a small bug in it.
Because this url has an ' in it, you cut it short:
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Notification on comments from a post author that I've commented
I left a comment for this question How to remove redundant codes?. Unfortunately, question author didn't reply to me via @..., so I haven't received any notification. Maybe that would be good when a ...
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Comment vote throttling makes it annoying to clean up obsolete chat
If I have a back-and-forth of say 4 comments each while refining an answer, I will then need to clean up my comments (presuming they are incorporated into the answer), then possibly flag my partner's. ...
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Flagging obsolete comment conversations
I understand the purpose of the flagging obsolete comments, but by nature of the way that comments become obsolete, often short exchanges (or occasionally lengthy conversations) end up obsolete at ...
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The comments box is occasionally too large until I upvote [duplicate]
I've noticed a weird comments bug for the past few weeks, but as it's intermittent, I haven't quite gotten to log a test case.
Effectively, the comments box becomes one line too large. Because of my ...
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Reputation Levels
I can't figure out why with my measly 38 reputation I can post answer, but not comments. Very often I find a point that should go in a comment, since it's not an actual answer, but either have to pass ...
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Links to Stack Exchange questions should behave the same in comments as in posts [duplicate]
Links inside answers to other pages on Stack Exchange sites get automatically converted, but they don't get converted inside comments. I'd like to request that they get converted in comments, too.
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Tooltip for question links in comments showing sanitized title
When you hover a link to a question in a comment, you get the title sanitized, the same way as in the question URL. (Test case.)
Here, have some freehand circles:
Can the tooltip reflect the ...
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Why can't we edit other user's comments?
I have seen so many times users commit mistakes in comments
For instance:
They just write code as simple statements.
Drop direct reference link.
Don't use backticks for code highlights
Even ...
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Automatically hide old comments
Comments are useful. Many, many posts need some small amount of meta discussion, and comments fulfill this need.
Comments are also noisy and distracting. Occasionally, someone will post an ...
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Inform user that post is already deleted when writing comments
Ok, I hit this thrice today itself.
I was trying to write a comment under a particular post. After composing I clicked on the submit button, a pop up is shown saying this post is deleted, locked or ...
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Provide a bronze badge for deleting one's own old comment
We have an enormous number of bronze badges on StackOverflow to help new users learn the basic functionality of the site. I propose a bronze badge for deleting a dated comment one has left:
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Allow Moderator Comments with the Prefix “Moderator Note” to show up in collapsed comments
There was a question recently that necessitated a comment being put into the parent post.
When I initally added the Moderator Note comment, there were 12 more comments there than there are now. This ...
