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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My comment on SO Meta was deleted. I would like to get the information about it [duplicate]
I remember commenting on one of the recent posts on Meta, but I don't remember the exact question. I tried to find it in my All Activities in the Profile but it is not there. I think it got deleted ...
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Canned comments on "First Questions" review queue should be more useful and welcoming [duplicate]
I was going through the "first questions" review queue today, as I like welcoming people to a site I get a lot of value from. Now, it's been raised elsewhere that there is a lack of guidance ...
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Weird auto-posted comment while using dupe hammer
After using dupe hammer on this post, I noticed a weird auto-generated comment popping up, attributed to me:
This question is similar to: srand() — why call it only once?. If you believe it’s ...
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How do you include someone with a space in their username in a post? [duplicate]
How do you include someone that has a space in their username in a comment or post? I've tried @"User Name" & "@User Name", among others that haven't worked.
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Shouldn't the Staging Ground comment field say "Avoid answering questions in comments" like it does for published questions?
Under normal published questions:
Under questions in the Staging Ground:
Why the difference? Shall we not avoid answering questions in staging ground comments?
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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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Autocompletion of usernames when replying to comments on mobile website (Chrome Android)
When replying to a comment on desktop, one can write @Fir and have an autocompletion of usernames in the discussion that begin by Fir. Then we can either do TAB or click on the suggested username to ...
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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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Is the intensity of meta working in our favor or to our detriment?
I was musing over a comment I've made this morning:
I didn't vote on this but if I had to guess the reason you're getting
downvoted is that people are intensely sick and tired of discussing
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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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Why do we need 50 reputation to make comments?
You need to have 50 reputation to make a comment on an answer but you can post an answer to a question with far fewer reputation. I was curious what the mindset was behind this decision? I know I'd ...
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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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