Questions tagged [comments]
Comments are small addendums to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting. Comments are second-class citizens.
36 questions
-1 votes
1 answer
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Why not delete the comment which fully repeats the words of the original post?
At the beginning of one of my threads, I wrote: As I understood, "at" is used with "weekend" in UK and "on" in US. Then I got the following comment from the user "...
- 6,416
2 votes
1 answer
223 views
Does this site have different rules about answering in comments?
On most SE sites, giving answers as comments is generally frowned upon. But here, it seems to be a very common practice. I realize that this site is different in that most questions are quick one-offs,...
- 1,080
2 votes
1 answer
112 views
Are possibly rude comments allowed?
Someone made a comment on my answer saying: Very poor answer tbh of a new contributor bounty hunting. Would this be allowed? I don't think this is the purpose for commenting, so I flagged it.
5 votes
1 answer
174 views
What is "slang"?
Moving this topic of conversation from If someone says "That hair tho", does it have a positive or a negative meaning? I am more than happy to (or have someone else) remove the 2 instances ...
- 180
-3 votes
2 answers
185 views
Should we force people to tell you why they downvoted a question?
What do you call this input, terminal device? Should we force people to tell you why they downvoted a question? Some people seem to downvote people for personal reasons. I feel a reason should be ...
user88427
-4 votes
2 answers
330 views
Is it normal to be crazy rude and ask irrelevant questions?
What do you call an open food vessel? The first guy asks why there's a discrepancy. Well, I couldn't find any image that perfectly fit the description. Why is he being rude to me? You're asking about ...
user88427
1 vote
2 answers
199 views
Is it allowed to add people's comment into one's answer?
Recently I've been answering a lot of questions, and many people have corrected me in the comments (thanks!), but I was wondering if I can add their comment into my answer without crediting them.
- 8,101
2 votes
0 answers
103 views
Move comments to chat for extended discussion is not working
When I saw this message here: Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat? I would obviously click it due to avoiding long comments, ...
- 8,101
3 votes
0 answers
321 views
Many comments under my answer
My answer to this question has garnered a gratifying number of up votes, as well as some down votes, and a very long tail of comments, in which people either agree with me enthusiastically (British ...
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8 votes
3 answers
545 views
Toxic and Inappropriate comments by the Community bot
The "Community" bot seems to have started writing comments. These seem less than helpful. For example: Should I write "I opened him the door." after I had made him open the door? ...
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2 votes
2 answers
95 views
How to handle inaccurate comments
In this question thread a user has declared that "sliver" is "not a word". This is simply incorrect, as a simple dictionary lookup will show. Is ther any prefered way to handle such provably ...
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1 vote
2 answers
363 views
Someone is deleting my comments
... for no other reason than that they are mine, or so it seems. I must have offended them. This makes it pointless to go on contributing, so if it's actually a technical problem, please let me know.
user96060
-4 votes
3 answers
302 views
Flagging the answers posted as comments
While using ELL (and other sites), I noticed that there is a lot of abuse - answers are posted as comments. And usually, it is not done by people with low reputation, which is even worse. I already ...
- 9,394
1 vote
0 answers
146 views
How to respond to users who answer questions in comments? [duplicate]
RE: Cobwebbed - The fox in the Attic (comment by CowperKettle) and "Get a free notebook WORTH $2." Where is "IS"? (comment by CowperKettle) Note that I have asked this same ...
- 3,855
16 votes
2 answers
516 views
So many answers in comments
I can see previous meta discussions on what should be a comment and what should be an answer, but what I'm wondering is, why are so many users posting answers, sometimes quite in-depth (if compact) ...
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