Questions tagged [comments]
Comments are small addendums to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting.
103 questions
5 votes
1 answer
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Ping an user in the question
We all know that to notify a user that we're mentioning them, we use @<user> in comments. I was wondering if the same happens when we write @<user> in a question.
12 votes
2 answers
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Before sending a comment mark it deleteable by the addressee?
You can easily delete your own comments. For several reasons I tend to be reluctant when it comes to editing other people's contributions. For example, I don't want my name "stamped" on a ...
1 vote
0 answers
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Code in comment overflows page horizontally
Look at my comment under this answer. My OS is an up-to-date Archlinux, and the browser is qutebrowser.
9 votes
0 answers
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Could a default comment about MWEs be added in reviews?
Context Recently I noticed a very common behavior about new users, they ask questions without providing MWEs. As an example, this question have more than one comment about lack of MWE. While review ...
3 votes
1 answer
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Where are green outlined checkmarks in comments to my question? Cannot mark a comment as accepted answer
Stack Exchange directions state: To mark an answer as accepted, click on the check mark beside the answer to toggle it from greyed out to filled in. However, the comments to my question do not have ...
7 votes
1 answer
226 views
How to type keyboard keys in comments
In questions/answers we type keyboard keys using <kbd>KEY</kbd> which renders KEY. It does not work in comments. How can one type keyboard keys in comments?
6 votes
2 answers
240 views
When is a question upvoted?
It seems like questions are not upvoted sufficiently. In comparison, answers are. Would it not be fair, to upvote questions automatically by counting the answers and comments, just to make clear, that ...
5 votes
1 answer
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Can one turn comments into a chat retroactively?
In this question the comments keep piling up. I wish I had started a chat earlier. Now it doesn't seem to be an option.
15 votes
4 answers
571 views
Is there a way to give anonymous feedback without flagging?
Probably many of you have seen low-quality answers, for which less versed users may not immediately see that the answer is low-quality. A specific situation could be answers to TikZ questions in which ...
1 vote
1 answer
348 views
Is there a fast way for a user to delete all of their content?
Let's assume that a user wishes to move away from TeX.SE and intends to delete all of the content they created up to the legally possible limit. Deleting tons of comments, unaccepted answers and ...
0 votes
0 answers
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Answering in comments, why is it a trend? [duplicate]
I see so many people giving perfectly valid answers in comments to the question instead of answers. Why is that so? Comments cannot be marked as accepted answers, and people coming across the same ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Edit the comment(s) of an OP
I ask to the more experts of TeX.SE if there is the possibility of editing the comments of users, without having to write or observe some errors of typography or code with another comment that could ...
7 votes
2 answers
506 views
Is underlining the reputation of a just-do-it-for-me asker inappropriate?
Recently I commented a just-do-it-for-me question by an old user with something like "More than 7000 (!) reputation points without trying to do something by yourself and adding an MWE?" Now the ...
0 votes
2 answers
210 views
Delete others' comments on my own post [closed]
If you use social media, you may know that all comments others posted on your own posts can be deleted by you if you see that it is unnecessary. I know TeX.SE, or SE in general, is not a social media ...
4 votes
1 answer
324 views
Why was my comment deleted?
Yesterday I down-voted the answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/343572/177954 because the websites where the images are from are not disclosed. I left a comment explaining this. Today I noticed ...