Timeline for PSA: When reviewing, don't post duplicate (and near-duplicate) comments!
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 14:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 5:42 | comment | added | FeRD | @Melebius I don't see any contradiction. You over-edited your second quote so severely you changed its meaning. What it says is: "If the comment you're about to post has already been posted, or something like it has been posted, don't post your comment. This is true even if the comment you're about to post is manually composed, or if it's a different kind of canned comment" IOW, you shouldn't post a canned comment that means the same thing as a different canned comment already posted. If your canned comment says something that HASN'T already been said, then of course post it. | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 7:45 | comment | added | Melebius | Some parts of the announcement are a bit contradictory. Compare (emphases mine): “If you see one that’s already there that expresses the same general idea, don't add another one.” with “…don't post your comment (…) if it's a different kind of canned comment (i.e., a "pro-forma" comment).” So when an answer contains a link and someone posts the “link-only answer” comment but it turns out it’s just a pastebin link of someone having the same problem, should I still post the correct (canned) comment? | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 11:22 | comment | added | anonymous2 | This is really quite annoying. I wish we could hit users who do this with a virtual stick. ;) ;) ;) Seriously, I noticed a little while back that I was doing that by mistake, and have taken steps to stop doing it both on AU and other sites. Thanks for the reminder! | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 17:43 | history | edited | Thomas WardMod |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackapps.com/ with https://stackapps.com/
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://askubuntu.com/ with https://askubuntu.com/
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| Jan 28, 2017 at 13:36 | vote | accept | Eliah Kagan | ||
| Feb 7, 2015 at 15:51 | answer | added | Elder Geek | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 21, 2014 at 0:59 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @Wilf Since what you mean by "duplicate comments" is comments that say the same thing as, or something very similar to, other comments on the same post: yes. Duplicate comments should be flagged. This is addressed near the beginning of the post we are commenting on now. :) Just search this page for flag. [The other thing people sometimes mean by "duplicate comments" is comments that state a question is or may be a duplicate of another question (i.e., comments that say, "possible duplicate of..."). That second sort of "duplicate comment" should of course not be flagged 100% of the time. :)] | |
| Jul 20, 2014 at 20:28 | comment | added | Wilf | If we do come across duplicate comments, would it be a good idea to flag them or something? | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 15:21 | history | edited | SethMod |
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| Jun 12, 2014 at 22:47 | history | edited | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2014 at 2:27 | history | edited | SethMod |
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| Nov 18, 2013 at 11:45 | comment | added | Dan | The Android application also adds auto-comments. At least when a question is flagged as a duplicate. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 9:59 | history | edited | jokerdinoMod |
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| Dec 7, 2012 at 6:13 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @JamesTheAwesomeDude A more general statement would be: A comment should add something constructive. | |
| Dec 6, 2012 at 6:06 | comment | added | JamesTheAwesomeDude | So... basically, it's OK to comment complaining about a non-answer, as long as you're the first one to comment about it? | |
| Oct 11, 2012 at 2:49 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @LordofTime It is extremely rare for such duplicate comments to be generated. If there is already a comment containing a link to the question itself, the system will not create one. If existing comments only link to answers, the system will create a new comment linking to the question. (I believe this exhaustively describes how it works, but I haven't undertaken an extensive study, so I might be missing.) Also please note that you can vote to close and then edit the automatically generated comment, if you want it to present the link differently or include other information. | |
| Oct 11, 2012 at 0:41 | comment | added | nanofarad | @LordofTime You can always manually delete the comment. | |
| Oct 10, 2012 at 23:40 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | So... what happens if we use "Vote to Close: Dupe" and the system auto-generates a comment that is near equal to "This post is a duplicate of [blarghenflarghen]"? Or does this PSA not apply then? | |
| Oct 10, 2012 at 6:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/AskUbuntu/status/255910849695338496 | ||
| Oct 9, 2012 at 15:43 | comment | added | Mahesh | Kick me hard if I read a word of that^ :P | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 12:43 | history | edited | jrgMod |
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| Oct 9, 2012 at 12:18 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 8:59 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | This is sort of annoying actually: wish I had a virtual stick to hit all users that double comments. | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 1:55 | history | asked | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |