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I'm unable to report a potentially malicious comment on Super User
A potential workaround:
Any site on the stack exchange network, when you scroll down to the footer, your find that link that says Contact:
When you click on that, you could select the "Other" ...
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Why do people attempt to discourage long well-written answers by instant AI accusations?
I get the slightest feeling of something that's turned from trying to keep the site 'neat' into essentially witchcraft trials.
As an end user - if you suspect someone of posting AI answers, there's ...
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Was my suspension for commenting called for?
Am I at fault?
I think you are at fault (to be clear: I really cannot tell if you're the only one at fault). Keep reading to know my reasons.
A fault which justified a suspension with no warning, ...
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superuser.com reputation point issue- not sure this was thought out very well
Stack Exchange doesn't want comments that just say "thanks".
They clutter up the format & turn it into a forum.
Stack Exchange is not a forum
It is a Question & Answer site, where ...
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Why do certain commenters take a rude tone with new users?
It may not be "fair" to lock comments, but the question is entirely off topic for this site and the comments were not doing anything to change that.
If the comments had been "you can ...
MokubaiMod
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Was my suspension for commenting called for?
I for one don't think you deserved a suspension. Your only real mistake is the threat to flag someone else's comments instead of disengaging, which transforms an argument about the technical topic ...
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Why was my comment explaining reason for a downvote deleted?
I removed it, though I was a little wary.
While your comment described exactly what should be done it was a little harsh and apparently taken badly by the other party who replied with
omg someones ...
MokubaiMod
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What's happening when I try a search on the number of comments?
I believe this is status-bydesign, since comments does not appear to be an actual search operator. We can see this by looking in the upper-right of the search results, where it shows the ...
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As a user, should I delete a comment when requested by an author?
Everyone is entitled to request a comment to be deleted. There is even a feature for it, right in front of the comment and takes the form of a flag. The difference of using a flag is that your comment ...
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Was my suspension for commenting called for?
. I noticed the "cleanup", repeated the SysRq comment (numbered 1 below), because there is nothing wrong with it, and fearing the follow-up would be deleted too,
So you're aware a comment ...
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Protect anonymity of 'no comment' down voters - while allowing other users to down vote them
Have the system automatically add a comment for every anonymous down vote that simply states, "down vote with no explanation - @anonymous"
That would be extremely noisy. In the past 90 days, it ...
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Why was this OP's self-answer converted to a comment?
I've seen this happen several times in the past. I suspect that there isn't any particular reason regarding this specific comment – rather, it seems that often users (including even long-time mods, ...
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What is reputation and how do I accumulate reputation?
The reason I chose to ask this question in this format is to inform the moderators of an ongoing problem
In the case of a fundamental question, less is more. If someone asks "Why is the text on ...
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Why did my comment get removed?
The comment you replied to was deleted by its owner, as is their right to do. Your comment was then flagged as obsolete and it was deleted as it made little to no sense on its own without the ...
MokubaiMod
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Why was my comment mod flag declined?
Your flag detail stated
This should really be converted to an answer as it solved the asker's problem.
There was a couple of reasons here.
The first is that Moderators cannot convert comments to ...
MokubaiMod
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Unclear wording on comment editing timeout
I think that message is unclear and should be changed to something like "Comments may only be edited after 5 minutes" or "Comments may only be edited 5 minutes after posting."
In the English language,...
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A "not relevant" flag on a comment suggesting a question improvement where the improvement was rolled into the question was declined. Why?
Admittedly - I did have a late night, and was bleary eyed. How did you guess? If I felt I was too zonked out to process flags, I wouldn't - I had reasons.
I felt that without that comment, the rest ...
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What should I do when I think my comment should be undeleted?
What should I do to let moderators know that I think a comment should be undeleted?
Hand up, I handled that flag.
You did the right thing by flagging, however there were not enough characters ...
DavidPostillMod
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Was my suspension for commenting called for?
Based on the information provided, you are at fault. Suspension is justified here for you to cool off in a period of time, before engaging in community again. Not giving warning is a prerogative of a ...
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Why are comments so limited?
Comments are limited so that you put information where it actually needs to be: your question.
Comments should never really be used as the depository of information, if you need to clarify something ...
MokubaiMod
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Reasonable flags are getting declined left, right and center
Oh, that was me. As such, let me take the opportunity to explain why these posts were not deleted.
In this case.
The question was closed when I got around to it
It was likely to be roomba-ed.
The ...
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Can I get notified when my comment is deleted
Only moderators can view deleted comments. I am fairly certain there is no way to know for sure that there are deleted comments on a post, other than of course remembering that one was there and ...
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Placing a user's comment in their own post
Are we able to edit his post and paste his extra information there?
Sure, that is a good thing to do as comments are not meant to be permanent in the same way that questions or answers are.
However, ...
DavidPostillMod
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No upvoting on comments on elections page
I noticed there is no upvoting in the comments on the moderator elections page
This is by design:
This was taken out a while back along with
flagging.
Nobody seems to recall exactly what ...
DavidPostillMod
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Protect anonymity of 'no comment' down voters - while allowing other users to down vote them
I am concerned primarily about this part:
Question down voters can still remain anonymous and safe from retaliation voting if they want to... but their reputation can now be made to suffer, just as ...
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Informative comments, should they deleted?
Comments are, preferentially, for teasing out information. Rather than being permanent fixtures of "this is some information" they are best used as "trial and error" or ...
MokubaiMod
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Informative comments, should they deleted?
It seems at least here, that the opinion is that informative comments
ta should be deleted, and wonder why that was so?
Informative comments should be avoided because they can be deleted at any ...
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Why do certain commenters take a rude tone with new users?
I believe the issue here is not whether or not the comments were appropriate or not, but rather the speed at which the actions were taken.
I really think the timing is the issue here. But first, this…
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Why are comments being deleted? And by who?
Ah, so - for once, its not our fault. OP asked the question before, re-asked, then self deleted the duplicate question and the comments remain on that original of the duplicate question.
The post with ...
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Why are comments so limited?
In addition to Mokubai's excellent answer - well... its not just you. Comments are somewhat misunderstood by many new users, old and new.
Your question is a perfect example of what Robert means when ...
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