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When do comments disappear?
I was browsing the main AU site, when I chanced upon the following comment in the question Why can't I turn on recommendations in software center?:
Please provide additional information only by ...
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What should I do with shortened links in comments?
I read Shortened Link Cleanup Time! a few days ago, and since then have been on the lookout for shortened links. However, occasionally I find a shortened link in a comment, and comments, unlike ...
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Should I report comments (in any way at all) that aren't spam but aren't constructive?
I'm looking at this question in which someone is giving pretty unhelpful answers in the comments attached to the question. I don't think this person is really trying to be unhelpful, but the comments ...
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Why are my comment flags continually getting rejected?
A little while ago I asked (Should I flag comments such as “I agree”, “+1 for x”, or “I changed x in my post”?) if certain kinds of comments should be flagged as useless, and got told that I should ...
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Should I flag comments such as "I agree", "+1 for x", or "I changed x in my post"?
Oftentimes I see comments that go along the lines of "+1, really good answer/question!", "I agree, we should do that this way", or "This helped a lot, thanks!". These comments are encouraging and ...
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Should we commment on spam to get it deleted faster?
Recently I observe that obvious spam often gets far more down votes than spam flags would be needed for community deleting and locking:
Should we in case of an obvious spam post leave a comment so ...
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Suggestion: Use pro-forma/"review" comments when flagging certain answers
First of all, thank yous :)
We have many wonderful community watchmen (too bad most of them don't have any super powers) who love to flag (thanks!) wayward answers, such as those that should really ...
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How to deal with nonconstructive comments?
I read some kind of rule on SO or some sub site that were like this (very vague)
You should not question the purposes, the if's and how's of why a
particular person wan't to do a particular ...
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What is the process to get those pro-forma-comments into the "central script"?
I am referring to the comments suggested in answers to share prewritten pro-forma-userscript comments.
Need they upvoting or do they just need someone to do the work? (that someone could be me, of ...
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Isn't the first step to post a comment rather than vote to close?
Can a question be closed without even a single comment?
I have an example here in which I do understand that several voters close the question without asking for clarification: https://askubuntu.com/...
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What is the meaning of OP?
I regularly see the abbreviation OP used in comments and in questions on the meta site. What does it mean?
Should a glossary be included in the FAQ? Or should OP be included in an existing glossary I ...
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Why do I always get "It does not meet our quality standards"
I just do the normal way of making a question but always says 'It does not meet our quality standards.' is there something wrong about my writings?
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Why don't "useful comment" results give reputation?
I saw the "Does upvoting a comment add to the commenter's reputation" question already, but seriously: this seems like a bug, not a feature.
There are questions to which there is no answer, but there ...
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Why can't we re-upvote comments?
Out of curiosity, why can't we re-upvote comments after upvoting and removing the upvote? As there aren't any penalties or rewards, I was just wondering, why the seemingly arbitrary limitation?
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PSA: When reviewing, don't post duplicate (and near-duplicate) comments!
As jrg♦ said (pinned in main chat):
Hey folks who use "canned" comments: If you see one thats already there that expresses the same general idea, don't add another one. Thanks. :)
This has ...
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If the answerer answers the question in the comments of their answer, should the OP accept that answer?
Let's say the question is:
How do I open Terminal Quickly?
I have been looking for an easy way or short-cut to open the Terminal quickly, so I don't have to find it in the Dash.
And the answerer ...
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When are "you can do this different thing instead" answers considered good?
Sometimes someone asks how to do something that is very hard, unlikely to have the intended effects, or fundamentally impossible or meaningless due to an insufficient understanding of what it would ...
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About the Comment system in New Review BETA feature
Review system looks good in controlling spam and low quality contents . I am aware it is still in BETA.
While reviewing i came across an answer whose author had less Reps to comment originally , ...
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Include number of comments in question preview
I suggest the following change to the way questions are displayed on the homepage: In addition to showing the number of upvotes, number of answers, and number of views, we also include the number of ...
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Why can't I comment on other questions/answers? [duplicate]
I looking for a diary program, that I can use for writing things, shopping, doctor apointments, and other things for my wife and I found an answer.
But I can't ask the guy a question like other ...
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How do I choose comments to be the best answer?
Sometimes users make the best answer on the comments, what should I do to make them best answer?
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Should otherwise obsolete comments sometimes be retained for the community opinion their upvotes express?
Sometimes a comment with lots of upvotes is still obsolete and should be removed. This is usually the case, for example, when it requests information that the OP then provides (and provides in such a ...
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How should users with low permissions indicate that an answer doesn't work?
Recently, a new answer popped up for a "resolved" question:
I can't get this to work! I've tried to do it manually and in terminal but nothing works. [...]
(why cant i post comments!?)
Like a ...
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Can comments not part of a discussion still be flagged as "too chatty"?
Is it sometimes appropriate to flag comments as "too chatty" even if they are not actually part of discussion taking place in comments?
Here are some made up examples where I would be tempted to flag ...
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Should users be able to flag comments as obsolete that they have previously upvoted?
I understand why I cannot flag a comment I've upvoted. When I upvote a comment, it means I think it is of especially high quality.
But an especially high quality comment can become obsolete (for ...
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Should comments that answer a question be marked obsolete after full answers are posted?
Sometimes a comment is posted that answers a question. This is not even always wrong--sometimes the comment is insufficiently detailed to constitute a good answer.
Then, sometime later, a good, ...
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Should new users be restricted from using comments within the questions they ask?
The faq for Ask Ubuntu ... as well as, I assume, all of the Stack Exchange sites (?) ... states in the "How Do I Ask Questions Here?" section
If other users ask you for more information in the ...
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How to comment below the post [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I comment on an answer?
I really searched all the area inside the post page to comment or ask the user about the post but failed. How it is possible as many doing the ...
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Pro-forma comments now support remote sources, should we set this up?
Pro-forma comments (the tool that let's us quickly paste precanned comments for common user questions now supports hosting the comments on a remote server:
https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/...
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Tag a comment as the correct answer
I ask a question in this forum: Bug report invalid, unupdated packages
And I want to tag as a valid answer the comment of a comment. Is it possible?
The comment is not the answer that I search...but ...
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Should comments be flagged for "light" rudeness?
I will give the example of this answer.
It was a bad answer, not much information in it, not really a good work around. A bad answer is a bad answer, we all understand that.
Now, I look at the user ...
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Please stop posting half answers and bad advice as comments
Ok so I've spent a few days doing hardcore cleaning and we have a problem with comments and people misusing them.
People who are too lazy to write a real answer so they write a half finished one ...
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Is it OK to suggest to a user to increase overall accept rate?
When a user with a very low accept rate posts a new question, is it OK to comment, suggesting that the user accept some answers to other questions to raise their accept rate?
I am not suggesting ...
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What to do when an answer is just a (very good) request for information?
What should I do when I come upon a question that's missing some information, which has been requested...but only in an answer that does not actually attempt to answer the question, nor even to ...
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How much confusion is justifiable in the name of simplifying comment "threads"?
Suppose I leave a comment to a question or answer suggesting a change that I cannot make myself or don't wish to make because of uncertainty as to whether or not I'm missing something. Then the change ...
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moving question-related discussions from comments to chat seems pointless, destroys clarifying information
After a bit of fact finding back and forth in the comments about a fix-it question, the site will now display something like:
Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to
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Is it okay to ask a user to accept an answer for his/her question?
Recently I have seen questions where few good answers were given but no answer was accepted and no comment was left on any answer i.e no activity from the user who asked the question. Is it okay to ...
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Does AskUbuntu encourage deleting old comments?
Generally, I don't delete my comments. I've seen several posts on AU where people's comments don't make sense, presumably because previous posters deleted their comments. It's worse when these ...
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What prewritten Pro-forma (aka AutoReviewComments) userscript comments can we use and share?
I'd like to gather a list of boilerplate comments (AKA canned responses) for Ask Ubuntu which can be used in combination with the awesome Pro-forma comments userscript.
Post suggestions too, you are ...
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Flag answers that should be comments?
As new users can't comment, they sometimes posts answers that would have been comments if they could. Should we flag them so they can be cleaned up properly, or leave them alone because that's how the ...
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How do I leave comments on Ask Ubuntu?
How do I leave a comment to an answer on the Ask Ubuntu site?
I posted a question and someone posted an answer. But the answer fails to take into account information posted on the site. How do I ...
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Should I ask for additional information in comments, or start an answer and ask questions there?
I noticed on another QA post here that someone mentioned that as a rule of thumb they keep comments short, and anything longer than short goes in an answer. A few times, I've asked for more ...
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HTML in questions but not comments?
Why is it that we can use HTML markup and entities in questions but not in comments? Shouldn't they be the same?
Testing markdown here, italic, bold... well, that seems to work.
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Why are you only allowed to comment with 50 rep?
Why are you only allowed to comment on other people's posts when you reached 50 reputation? In my opinion comments are a good way to ask people to clarify their questions or add additional information ...
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Why limit the number of times I can edit a comment? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Comment re-edit time-out is too short.. and Is there a limit on deleting my comments?
I was surprised of this feature. What is it useful for?
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Does upvoting a comment add to the commenter's reputation? How much?
I've noticed some great comments along the way and upvoted them. Will the commenter get any reputation boost from that? (If they do, how many points per vote?) I'm also wondering since I've seen some ...
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