Comments are small addendum to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting. Comments are second-class citizens.
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Can we fix the grammar on the “possible duplicate” comment? [duplicate]
When closing a question as a dupe, the system generates a comment:
possible duplicate of Can we fix the grammar on the "possible duplicate" comment? -- hexafraction 1 day ago
Can we get a ...
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How do I comment on a suggested edit to my topic?
This is pretty meta, but I wanted to gently suggest to Sosukodo, regarding his/her comment on my recent question that StackOverflow is being overrun by title pollution! Tags do not belong in titles! ...
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Comments cleanup request
There is a question on the main site that was originally posted without explaining its real purpose clear enough, resulting in barrage of comments, downvotes and closure of the question.
After ...
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Welcome text shortcut for new users with poor posts
A problem I've seen on both Sci-fi and Christianity is poor first user posts. Specifically, the user (who typically has a rep of 1) will post an answer:
which is rambling / ranting answer ...
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How to deal with rude comments (from the OP) that are not exactly “offensive”?
User A has provided an answer to user B's question. User B (the OP) responded to the answer:
No, you CANNOT [do that thing suggested in your answer]. If you do [your suggested aproach] -- well ...
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Highlight all other occurrences of hovered name
StackOverflow's comments are a great feature, as we all know. I was browsing this question's comments and found myself looking for @chrisgonzalez' answer. It took me a couple of seconds to work out it ...
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Can't edit/delete comments outside of main site
In the Android app, tapping on my own comments should offer me a menu with the option to edit or delete the comment. (The edit option persists after 5 minutes, which it shouldn't, but that's something ...
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After adding a comment, SO says there are new comments to show, but it is only yours? [duplicate]
For a few days now, when I add a comment, SO will (sometimes) show my comment and indicate that there are one or more new comments, and on showing the new comments, it is just my comment that is ...
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App crashes on upvoting a comment twice when not connected
On upvoting a comment, without a connection, the operation fails silently with no error message. However, on upvoting again the app crashes. The second vote need not be on the same comment.
Version: ...
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Missing comment on profile?
I have received some comments in this topic, Need the last entry while using XSUM in SYNCSORT JCL
To see if the TS/OP has deigned to turn up and respond to requests, I went to the topic and found a ...
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Review queue for questions should show comments on question [duplicate]
I recently reviewed a suggested edit on Java DB constraint which simply added a tag to a question. The comment was "added derby tag based on comment", which surely made sense to the editor, but to ...
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How to react when the right answer is given in the comments?
I was wondering, it happened to me a few times that I answered a question in the comments section. This answer finally helped the user to solve his problem, ut as I gave it into the comments section, ...
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Issues with comment voting in the Stack Exchange Android app
I came across this interesting toast message when voting on comments in the Stack Exchange Android app:
A "vote of comment"? Perhaps the message should be the same as on the site: You may only ...
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Best way to keep track of comments in questions
I have been reading some past answers from as far back as 2011. But I wanted to see if anything new has changed.
when you see a question that you need clarification from you usually post a comment. ...
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Hovering over the X to delete a comment created via the android app moves comments below
On chrome, 29.0.1547.57 m.
I've used the android app to create comments, as such they appear as below when hovering over them on the desktop version:
Hovering over the x does this:
It's not ...
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Can the comment deletion modal popup be replaced, or at least tweaked? [duplicate]
Modal dialog popups have always been a great bugbear most everywhere, and it just got worse - or perhaps simply more noticeable. At least for Chrome v29.0.1547.57m, there are some changes that cause ...
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Could you remove (or change) the “Add comment” hint from deleted answers?
It's just a minor thing, but still... Could you remove the extra hint from deleted posts ? It's enough to hover the "comments disabled on deleted / locked posts / reviews" text on deleted or locked ...
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Mobile site view is missing blue OP highlight in comments
Lately, I've noticed that on questions in the mobile view, comments written by the original poster do not have the light blue highlight around their name. The highlight appears, however, as soon as I ...
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What if we get an answer in user comments? [duplicate]
I asked a question on Stack Overflow, How to align a td text to the left of the table. For that question I got answered by Gintas K's comments, but I can't accept that comment as the accepted ...
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Editing comments steals my mouse!
IE 10.0.9200.16660
Windows 8
Steps to reproduce:
Open Internet Explorer
Navigate to http://serverfault.com (and possibly any other SE site)
Create a comment
Edit that comment
Finalize the edit by ...
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Change Help Center links to show their title
For example, if I paste the link http://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic in a comment, change the anchor text to "Help Center: What topics can I ask about here?" I think this should be done the same ...
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Allow linking (suggested) edits to one comment
As the feature-request Show the post's comments on the “Suggested Edits” review interface elaborates on, some suggested edits seem too radical without the context of comments they are based on.
I ...
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Voting and flagging comments gets enabled when loading additional comments in duplicate question
I´m not sure if it is already reported. But when i review the following post http://stackoverflow.com/review/close/2764929 and take a look at the duplicate, voting on question, answers and comments is ...
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My past answers being downvoted out of revenge? [duplicate]
I've recently had a stream of downvotes without comment on a number of my answers. I personally feel these answers are of objectively good quality and I fear I am being targeted out of spite.
Could ...
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Are moderators able to post comments that are automatically deleted after x amount of time?
This comment reads the following:
If you're looking for the previous 33 comments, please see this meta thread instead. This comment will self-destruct in 48 hours. – Raven Dreamer♦
(The link ...
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How ask more information about an answer? [duplicate]
Yesterday, I read an interesting answer about drawing histogram in Android application. However, I didn't understand the use of two variables whose one is not initialize. So, I decided to add a ...
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Comment score is misaligned for own single-line comments [duplicate]
When a comment by you, the logged-in user, fits on one line (the signature too) and has a nonzero score, the score indicator is slightly misaligned.
Own single-line comment. Misaligned.
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Does a comment on deleted posts count towards badges? [duplicate]
I've read a post on meta about deleted comments count towards badges.
But, I need to clarify the thing that whether the comments on a deleted post be counted towards badges(commentator, pundit).
I ...
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What is the benefit of useful comment votes? [duplicate]
What is the benefit of getting a certain number of upvotes on comments? The tooltip says it means that the comment is "useful", but how is someone rewarded for posting useful comments?
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Prevent moderators misplacing their diamonds in the Stack Exchange Android app
See Why Answerers get penalty for user remove with the first answer having a comment by Animuson.
On my screen the username and the diamond are on different lines because of a page break. I think ...
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Indicate comments belonging to the original poster in the android app
On the website we get an indication when it's the poster that's commenting. Can we have the same functionality for the android app; some kind of indication when the comment belongs to the poster.
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Improve the usability/intuitiveness of direct comment links
I have seen many people share links which go directly to a specific comment. I wanted to do this too today but I couldn't figure out how. I had to search here on Meta to find this Q&A:
Direct ...
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Why can't I response to user who edited my answer/question using @reply syntax? [duplicate]
Quite simple question: Why can't I respond to a user who edited my answer/question using @reply syntax?
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“Great Commenter” badge [duplicate]
I sort of like the Great Comment Pundit badge, but I also think that continued, disciplined, consistent, high-quality commenting on questions which otherwise receive little attention might be ...
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Have suggested edits also show the comments to a post [duplicate]
Some suggested edits like this one at first look like another user trying to hijack a question. Until you see the suggestion's comment stating "Added code snippet provided by OP" - but anyone could ...
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Allow HTML entities in comments
I just tried to write a comment with an em dash—unsuccessfully, I might add—by using the — HTML entity.
Maybe I'm spoiled by the Markdown support for questions and answers, and ...
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I participated by comment, but when OP added new commen I am not notified [duplicate]
I just participated in this question: PHP difficulties connecting MyAdmin MySQL database to site hosted by DreamHost
However, when OP added new comments I am not notified, but, when I added another ...
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Indication required for up voted comment in Android app
There is no indication for the comments on question which I have already up-voted.
In app, user can do vote-up as many as he wants to play with it (Though its not incrementing up vote counter on Web ...
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Should I be able to delete comments from a deleted answer?
I just made a comment to an answer (not mine). The user deleted their answer. This message was displayed just below their answer:
deleted by owner 28 mins ago
comments disabled on deleted / ...
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Change the error message that the new user gets when he/she tries to make his first comment
Recently I was informed that a new user on this site needed 50 rep to comment, because of protection against-spammers.
My proposal is to change the error message that the new user gets. How about ...
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Tell me how many characters I've got left for comments in the Stack Exchange Android app
When typing a comment on the Android app, it doesn't tell me how many characters I have to type, or how many I have left. It would be nice if it displayed it as I was typing (like on the website), ...
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Why aren't links in comments replaced with the name of the question? [duplicate]
When I post the link to a Stack Overflow question in this question, the name of the link is converted to the title of the question:
Get all possible matches for regex (in python)?
When I post the ...
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Show comments while suggesting edits or reviewing first posts
In the first post queue, I see a question where the asker posted important supplemental information in two comments. So I click “edit”, and the comments disappear: all that's left is the standalone ...
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Comments can't contain that content [duplicate]
I tried leaving a comment on replace [aA09.b]. to [aA09.b]\n in in jquery that says 'What have you tried?', but was unable to post my comment. I've seen this comment posted on other questions where ...
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Expanding comment-list does not work [duplicate]
I'm trying to view the expanded comments here: How can I prevent SQL injection in PHP? (answer by Zaffy - "add / show 30 more comments")but it just hops to the top of the page
I am using ...
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More comments overlapping add comment on the Stack Exchange Android app
On any question or answer with many comments the Show more comments button is partly hidden by the Add comment button. I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S II if it matters.
Example question: Why is unsigned ...
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Can we search posts by number of comments?
Based on the existing advanced search options, I expected a comments:# to exist so I can search posts depending on the number of comments they have applied to them; at worst, I expected a hascomments. ...
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What can be done to handle spam comments quickly?
As I read this question I noticed two comments by a user, consisting only of a link to php-pages on a site that did not seem in anyway related to the question.
I flagged them as Other and stated why, ...
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Sort comments on my profile by votes [duplicate]
I would like to sort my comments by votes. My hope is to find my old obsolete comments and delete them when they don't add value to the posts. I assume that if they have an up vote at all, they are ...
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“Show more comments” produces a layout overflow on Firefox
This is how the comments are show before I press the show more comments link:
And this is what happens:
You can try it here and here, although it happens to me everywhere. It doesn't seems to be ...
