Timeline for When should I answer and when should I comment?
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| May 15, 2020 at 4:36 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I certainly do not want to edit your post just because I disagree with it - doing so would not be a "correction" but a terrible breach of ethics :) | |
| May 15, 2020 at 4:35 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | Admittedly I sometimes post such answer-y comments myself, but I still feel they are somewhat an improper use of comments. The SE consensus is that a partial answer is an answer. Meta posts like the one I linked to can be found on many other child metas. Recently I have seen very many answers flagged as not-an-answer with comments saying "should be a comment", that most definitely should not be comments. Poor answers should be fixed or downvoted, not flagged or shifted to comments where they cannot be moderated. Useful half-answers are fine. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 13:09 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | @Zanna, I have changed the "partial answer" in my answer to make it more obvious what I meant. If you think it is still wrong, please feel free to correct it. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 13:08 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | @Zanna, but some information can be helpful without being an answer. I might point out that the "break" key was used to send a hardware signal that bypassed the normal character stream, which could be deadlocked. Most people no longer know that history, and that detail could clarify some confusion in the question, and it might inspire someone to write the correct answer. But by itself it would make a very poor answer, and would almost certainly be flagged as "not an answer". | |
| May 14, 2020 at 13:07 | history | edited | Ray Butterworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Reword "partial answer".
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| May 14, 2020 at 7:40 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | A partial answer to the question should not be a comment! Everyone should please read this post, especially @walttheboss since you asked the question | |
| May 14, 2020 at 1:08 | vote | accept | walttheboss | ||
| May 14, 2020 at 1:08 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | Note that most *.SE sites have a steep learning curve initially, and that the documentation for what is considered "on-topic" for each site is remarkably sparse. Overall I've got 21K reputation, 34 gold badges, and still (i.e. this week) I tend to get my first few postings to a new site rejected for being off-topic. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 1:02 | vote | accept | walttheboss | ||
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| May 14, 2020 at 1:02 | history | edited | Ray Butterworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 79 characters in body
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| May 14, 2020 at 1:02 | comment | added | walttheboss | Thanks a mint. That is exactly what I needed to hear. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 0:59 | history | answered | Ray Butterworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |