Questions tagged [automatic-comments]

I've just come across a possible bug in the comments section of StackOverflow (and, likely, other StackExchange sites). Please have a look at the comments section of this answer. A long time ago, I ...

I closed the question in Staging Ground as a duplicate. Because I have a gold badge, the question has been closed immediately and has obtained the banner This question already has an answer here: ...

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 ...

Usually when someone flags/votes to close a question as a duplicate, a comment is automatically inserted. Does this answer your question? [link to proposed duplicate] But since this morning those ...

In the Help and Improvement Queue when I edit a question at the end I'm asked to Explain your edit in a comment The text is used as edit summary but it's also posted as comment on the question. ...

Usually, after a few comments back and forth between two users, we get a message saying: Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat? ....

Catija wrote: The ["Does this answer your question? [Link to possible duplicate]"] comment was removed because the user disagreed that the duplicate you proposed answered their question and the ...

I flagged this question for closure earlier as being a duplicate. This normally automatically creates an appropriate comment. I see the usual "show 1 more comment" link below the question: But ...

I had a question marked duplicated then I delete it, but now I want to use a link in a comment in that question but all comments are gone now. Is this normal or a bug or the comments are deleted ...

I posted a question at Force Google Sheet SPLIT to create strings, not numbers but later found out that it was already answered somewhere else. I then wanted to close my question and created a link ...

The auto-comment text for close-as-duplicate votes is very confusing, particularly for new users. Here's a typical interaction I'm seeing associated with "Does this answer your question?" ...

Sure, we have a system in place that prevents a question from being asked if it "looks like there isn't enough code". But, I noticed that there is a lot of situations where people will have to leave ...

I had a question which was (correctly) marked as duplicate by someone. I received a note in the comments along the lines "possible duplicate of ...". I confirmed the that the question is indeed a ...

When reading comments or posts, there are often links to chat, usually with this message: Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. But sometimes the text ...

I recently came across a question which had the following comments: Both links in the comments pointed to this question. Can we make it so that if the 'Possible duplicate' is the same as one which ...