Timeline for Why are so many answers posted as comments?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Sep 7, 2019 at 13:27 | comment | added | Rabbit | Seems like posting something that might turn out to be unhelpful might be confusing for both poster and other people googling in years to come? I like that the answers are helpful and straight to the point and comments are curious and exploitative, personally | |
| May 17, 2019 at 16:13 | comment | added | Kulfy | @Rabbit Q&A aren't only for the questioner but for all the users who might visit the site sooner or later. Comments should be used to make questions more clear. If you think you know the answer and it might work may be not for the questioner but for other person, post that without a second thought :-) | |
| May 17, 2019 at 14:51 | comment | added | Rabbit | i'm not confident to presume my answer will be helpful, if the person says it actually was then i might repost as an answer | |
| May 17, 2019 at 6:31 | comment | added | Kulfy | @dessert Actually I consider it as plagiarism. As I said in my answer, I'm not the author of that comment, so IMO I don't have any rights by any means to get credit and earn reputation points from that. Moreover, I don't want anyone to have objection on my actions which might land me in debates in near future. | |
| May 17, 2019 at 5:48 | vote | accept | marosg | ||
| May 16, 2019 at 19:34 | comment | added | dessert | You actually don’t have to make it community wiki, there’s nothing wrong with you getting credit for an answer you created, even if you used information others provided in comments. The unwritten (?) law says: If a comment writer whose information turned out to be the answer doesn’t make it an answer in 24h it’s OK to write your own answer using the information. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 6:40 | history | answered | Kulfy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |