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  • @EnergyNumbers yes. go look at a 30+ answer question on SO to see how it works. stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/… Here's one. Commented May 15, 2013 at 14:54
  • Note that this still doesn't encourage people to move very valuable information from comments into posts, as they will still know that others can read the comments. The goal here is primarily to incentivize people to take valuable information from comments and edit them into questions/answers. Commented May 15, 2013 at 14:57
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    @Servy well, the incentive is that if you don't integrate it into the answer the visibility is significantly lessened (it doesn't show up). Obviously that's not the ideal, but we don't want to delete them outright and we don't want to spend time dealing with it, so this is the correct compromise. Commented May 15, 2013 at 15:01
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    @waxeagle I don't see that as sufficient evidence for most people to take the time to edit their posts. Commented May 15, 2013 at 15:02
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    @Servy again, this is a compromise solution. It's the lazy solution using existing features and policies. Thus it's far more likely to get implemented. Commented May 15, 2013 at 15:09
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    Sure it could be implemented, but if it doesn't solve the underlying problem it doesn't really help... Commented May 15, 2013 at 15:16
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    It should be comments older than 30 days. I've seen a lot of helpful comments on old posts saying something like "this method is now deprecated. Check out this answer (link) instead." Commented May 16, 2013 at 13:31
  • I think they should be soft-deleted. Giving a limited lifespan to comments will entice people to move their contributions to the post. Commented Jan 8, 2015 at 17:02