Timeline for Should new users be restricted from using comments within the questions they ask?
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| May 16, 2012 at 21:48 | vote | accept | irrational John | ||
| May 16, 2012 at 20:29 | comment | added | Mateo | askubuntu.com/questions/82487/… here is another example, one of the answers answered with a unity specific answer, and later found out that poster was using earlier version of Ubuntu, otherwise it would be a good answer. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 21:32 | comment | added | Mateo | maybe a message like this would be appropriate , "There has been substantial change to the form and content of this question, this could mean the OP has added troubleshooting information, added solutions that tried or failed, to the question, or a moderator has changed the format to improve the question, please consider reviewing the changes to see how best to modify your answer or respond to the OP." we could set up certain critera for the notification, and a moderator(or avanced usr) could mark it to notify automatically if they make a significant change. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 21:23 | comment | added | Mateo | only notified about the comment... nice post on meta-stack, I agree at least people who are answering the questions should get notified on edits to the question (maybe the larger edits, a threshold or something, so you don't get just the capitalizations), so people posting questions can edit their posts in-line with the question, to avoid confusion. Take this question for example, askubuntu.com/posts/27213/revisions earlier this year there was someone that answered the question when it was first asked, the answer is not there anymore because he got donwvoted terribly and deleted it. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 20:37 | comment | added | irrational John | @eliah Since I am no longer sure what notifications are sent or what triggers them, this comment is to mention I edited my question. (This is not the path I was expecting this to take ... ). | |
| May 10, 2012 at 14:41 | comment | added | Mateo | Here is an example, askubuntu.com/questions/113570/… a user posted a solution to install a program, the user commented in the answer about an unrelated problem, then edited his post, that makes in an entirely different question, making the answer look like it was already tried before. When a new question should have been made for the "lock" issue. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 14:03 | comment | added | Mateo | @irrationalJohn did you get informed about my edit the other day, I ran a little test. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 23:38 | history | edited | Mateo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 9, 2012 at 23:30 | comment | added | irrational John | I had always assumed that edits do result in notifications. I am somewhat troubled if it turns out they do not. As for learning what new information was introduced, that is actually much easier with a question or answer than with a comment. You can always look at the edit history for a question or answer. I am not aware of any documentation trail in the case of a comment. | |
| May 7, 2012 at 17:07 | history | answered | Mateo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |