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Why I'm not able to comment for this question when other user with 1 rep can comment
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 …
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Should we comment to the OP please mark this question if you feel its answered
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 …
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Why did these comments get deleted? Someone else wrote the same afterward and got over 20 up...
Comments are transient. … Someone flagged comments there. Comments were cleared out. Someone else commented. No one flagged it. Comments stayed. …
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Reasonable flags are getting declined left, right and center
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. …
4
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Why are comments so limited?
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. …
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Why are comments being deleted? And by who?
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. …
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Why were a good amount of comments from a question removed?
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. …
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Accepted
How to acknowledge comments with corrections to post?
In general, it really depends on the nature of the edit that would have been needed. If it was a substancial edit that changes the nature of the answer, its probably polite to comment rather than edit …
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Accepted
What's the policy on a request to add a comment?
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. …
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Accepted
A "not relevant" flag on a comment suggesting a question improvement where the improvement w...
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. …
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Is "It's impossible" a valid answer, or is it a comment?
Some things are simply impossible - however, it's useful to say why not (or better yet, how it could be done, but how incredibly difficult it is).
If we had a question like
I need to alter my …
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Comments are not wrapped, continued on other side of page
The comments for the first answer aren't wrapping, and seem to be hiding behind the side bar, and continuing on the other side in Firefox 4.0 on Windows …
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Remove upvoting on comments under a question, only allow downvoting
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. …
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Should I answer my own question? Was I wrong to post it?
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. …
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Can I get notified when my comment is deleted
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. …