Timeline for "Answers" that are better off as comments
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 13:47 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 8:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.superuser.com/ with https://meta.superuser.com/
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| Jul 6, 2016 at 12:04 | comment | added | EKons |
An answer might say "Please, if you see this answer, flag it. If you can migrate it to a comment, do it. I don't have enough rep to comment yet." There is an 600-character limit on comments though, and not full Markdown format is supported. Also, problems with the voting system might arrise, i.e. votes = upvotes - downvotes. But what about neutral votes? So, a better formula would be votes = upvotes - downvotes * 2, or 0. But then, again, mods can't do such a thing continuously. This ends up as commenting, which is explicitly allowed at 50 rep.
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| Jan 4, 2013 at 19:26 | comment | added | slhck Mod | @Kruug Well, the poster should then focus on answering questions that can be answered without the need for further details. Once they gain enough reputation, they can then post comments wherever they like. We can't offer a "migrate-to-comment" service for users who repeatedly post non-answers and hope we'll migrate it as a comment for them. | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 19:16 | comment | added | Kruug | @slhck What if the poster's rep wasn't high enough to allow them to post a comment? | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 18:49 | vote | accept | Karan | ||
| Jan 2, 2013 at 18:48 | comment | added | Karan | All right, of the ones that have not been deleted since yesterday I flagged one and left a comment on another since it was borderline (like you said, included some code but that was only to generate a dump/etl file, which he wanted to take a look at). | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 18:33 | comment | added | slhck Mod | Well, let's act on individual cases. I didn't check all the answers of the user you mentioned in the question because I didn't have the time to. Note that some of these "answers" simply might not fit a comment format (too much text, too much code), so it's a tough call on deleting those. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 16:13 | comment | added | Karan | "That being said, if there's a repeated pattern... we'll probably let them know through other means that this is not acceptable" - So what's the final verdict here? Are you (the mods) gonna handle this or do we go through and flag each one that fits the bill as "Not an answer"? | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 16:12 | comment | added | Karan | Of course, I agree that if there are concrete suggestions as to what must be done next and not just an offer of help, the answer makes sense to future users as well. Which is where I felt these "answers" fell short. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 9:25 | history | answered | slhckMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |