Timeline for Help us figure out a way to handle the explosion of comments on Stack Overflow
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| May 15, 2013 at 14:11 | comment | added | JDB | That's true. It's just a brainstorm - there were other suggestions too (such as putting requests in a different queue only visible to relevants users, such as OP, so that they don't clutter up the comments for everyone else) | |
| May 15, 2013 at 14:07 | comment | added | Anthony Grist | Why should I have to comment again to (re)request clarification, and why would I want to? It's easier to just downvote and/or vote to close and move to another question at that point; I already do this if I've been waiting for clarification from somebody for a while and it's not forthcoming. | |
| May 15, 2013 at 14:01 | comment | added | JDB | Categorizing comments would at least encourage the commenter to think about their reasons for commenting. As for deleting comments, I agree that an edit will not necessarily address all the "Request" type comments, but if there's still an issue the originall commentor can comment again. | |
| May 15, 2013 at 13:58 | history | edited | JDB | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 286 characters in body |
| May 15, 2013 at 13:56 | comment | added | Anthony Grist | Categorizing comments just seems like an unnecessary extra step, and doesn't really solve the problem; you're not encouraging the correct behaviour (editing the question when providing clarification, for example), just limiting the visual effects of lots of comments. I'd also hate for edits to remove comments asking for clarification, just because a post has been edited that doesn't mean any of the clarification requested has been added. | |
| May 15, 2013 at 13:51 | history | edited | JDB | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 108 characters in body |
| May 15, 2013 at 13:46 | history | edited | JDB | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 108 characters in body |
| May 15, 2013 at 13:41 | history | edited | JDB | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 108 characters in body |
| May 15, 2013 at 13:35 | history | answered | JDB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |