Questions tagged [comments]
Comments are small addendum to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting, and second-class citizens.
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Add comments from the Staging Ground to the activity tab [duplicate]
I'm not sure if this should be tagged as feature-request or bug, but I wonder if it was a deliberate decision, a technical necessity, or an oversight that comments on questions in Staging Ground are ...
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Comments on deleted Staging Ground posts appear undeleted to 10k+ users
When a post on the Staging Ground is deleted, the background coloring suggests that the comments underneath have not been deleted. This is unexpected and curious, but also, in the case of some recent ...
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Allow comments to "bump" a question in the "active question" list
When logging into the site, I see the so-called "Interesting Questions", containing recently added questions, recently modified questions and recently answered questions; but I have the ...
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Remove "accept an answer" request from Low Quality Answers comment
I was going through the low quality answers review queue and noticed that, when the answer is by the user who asked the original question, the "This is a 'thank you' comment" asks the OP to ...
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Is it constructive to ask for research effort when flagging as a dupe?
I've been finding myself closing a lot of beginner-style questions as duplicates lately. For many of them, my dupe-finding process is just two steps:
Paste the title into Google.
Click the first ...
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How to deal with comment that refer to interesting deleted answer?
I found this comment :
"timestamp has a some limitations, you might want to read this stackoverflow.com/a/7229760/2652018"
The link refer to a question that seems similar. The link doesn't ...
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Were my comments overly provocative?
This Stack Overflow answer seemed to come off immediately with a very harsh stance against a JavaScript feature. In fact calling it "trash". Okay, I'm cool with that, but I'm therefore going ...
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Should the AI policy explicitly ban recommendations to use GenAI?
I recently asked this meta question about recommending ChatGPT for fixing typos. The consensus was a very clear "recommending ChatGPT for typos is a bad idea."
However, in this main question,...
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Just today, every edit comment I try to make is "reserved for system use" [duplicate]
I'm trying to submit a basic edit, but no matter what I type, the website says "Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment."
I've never had problems with edit ...
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When is it appropriate to comment saying that coding challenges are a poor learning strategy, and to suggest a different strategy?
Very often when I come across a question post that has any sort of connection to a coding challenge site such as leetcode, hackerrank, etc., such as being about a problem on that site, or even if the ...
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Should I comment possible solutions in SG when the question can't be published yet
Should I comment some possible solutions in SG when the question is not yet complete (such as not including a minimal reproducible example)?
If I comment, my answer may be lost after the question is ...
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Reduce [Questions with no answers] [duplicate]
At this moment there are 3,205,054 questions with no answers
I'm sure half or more of these questions have been answered in the comments
While there is no way to force OP to answer by themself,
I'd ...
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Upvote on comments is disabled when you've already voted on the comments in Staging Ground [duplicate]
When you upvote a comment in the staging ground, the initial behaviour is the same as that on the main site; the icon goes from being a one colour to orange:
If you do not refresh the page, you can, ...
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Should questions in the [faq] tag on Meta have "canonical links"?
I noticed in the revisions of Why is "Can someone help me?" not a useful question? that an attempt was made to add a "canonical link" to the question, apparently intended for ...
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Is commenting on "Review First Questions" broken?
Let me state upfront that - as far as I understand - this has nothing to do with the "Audit" questions.
I've been reviewing some first posts, and have been taking a lot of time trying to ...
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