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Basically the comments weren't really helpful in helping the user actually find a solution in the context of the post, and were deleted to keep things managable/less confusing. …

The post with the comments (viewable with 10k+ reputation only) was 8 hours ago, and the one that's there is 21 hours ago. The princess, or at least your comments, are in another castle. … And here's a screenshot of the deleted comments for reference. …

We have better tools - leaving it to the mods rather than arguing over it in comments is a better idea. …

C comments (not answers): "That is inaccurate. Horseshoe crabs, for example, are arachnids but are not dangerous.". B: "Shut up, this is about scorpions." … Good comments often either improve the question or the answer, not act as a space for fragmentary orphaned information. …

I felt that without that comment, the rest of the comments lacked context. … The comments as a whole feel like they provide context so nuking them all and letting cat sort them out doesn't work for me either. …

When ideally Comments actually have two primary use cases — to ask for clarification or to suggest improvements to a post. … And for both these things we kind of expect comments to be succinct, and transient. It isn't a place for explaination in detail. …

The comments seem mostly harmless. I didn't really see any specific point in deleting stuff that would be deleted eventually anyway and were harmless. … The flags did seem somewhat redundant in this view of things, and some of those comments felt mildly enlightening. …

Comments are transient. … Someone flagged comments there. Comments were cleared out. Someone else commented. No one flagged it. Comments stayed. …

The comment you deleted essentially was an attempt to extract an answer out of a off topic/closed question via comments. The deletion was by design. … As far as I understand the SE model, there's almost nothing that really belongs, long term, as comments. …

Assuming the OP's even around. Typically though here's what I'd do. Upvote great answers, especially if it helped. If you can improve on it a bit without changing the spirit of the answers, do it. C …

I'm encouraging ramhound to post an answer since he comments lots and answers less than he should ;p. However, it should be entirely fine, most of the time to post your own, detailed correct answer. …

Mods cannot explicitly enable privileges like that - You'll need to re-earn them like anyone else by posting quality answers. This is by design - its the opportunity cost of putting out a bounty, and …

I'm the moderator that converted that, and your mileage, as far as comment conversions may vary. In general we prefer that users not post answers for conversion, but rather get the necessary reputat …

Using suggested edits as comments is a nono. Reject with impunity.The one exception is If its clearly the op (who is a poor lost soul and is unregistered), and he's lost his cookie. … There's no suggested comments mechanism at this point of time. …

On the other hand, comments are a useful way to extract and elicit more information from an OP, or to suggest something too minor to be a question on its own. … A comment upvote is just a way to say "this comment added something" (and we don't downvote, we flag comments). And yeah, read the help center. …