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Commenting questions [duplicate]
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Why are you only allowed to comment with 50 rep?
When I am in 'AskUbuntu' look an Ask I can answer but I can't comment. And I can see other people that can comment it.
I have ...
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How to continue discussions important to a meta question?
Are long comment threads on meta questions discussing issues directly pertinent to the question considered bad, even if they do not become repetitive? I know this is considered bad on main...but meta ...
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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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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!?)
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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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How to comment below the post [duplicate]
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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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Comments in mobile version of Ask Ubuntu
I am using my mobile to connect to Ask Ubuntu. But the problem is I can't remove/edit comments from mobile version of Ask Ubuntu. Is it problem of my mobile or a known issue in Ask Ubuntu?
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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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Is there a way to get emails for new comments?
Is there a way to have Ask Ubuntu send me emails when new comments are posted? I can't seem to find an option for this. A lot of times, someone asks me a question in a comment and I don't know about ...
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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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Notifying posters of comments restricted?
I've noticed that comments I make are being stripped of the "@name" part. For example, my comment here, "@yossile, the OP has mentioned Google Chrome beta and there is (or was) a problem regarding it ...
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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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@Tag keeps vanishing
I posted a reply to Russ in this thread:
How to recover deleted files?
When I did so, I began it with "@Russ, " to tag him. When I posted the comment though, the tag vanished. I tried several ...
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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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How do I escape backticks in a comment?
I want to be able to post this as a comment:
FYI, code formatting is done with backticks, e.g. `sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst`.
But as you can see, it doesn't come out quite right...
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Comment system notifications
I found a ridiculous bug for the comments notification system. If I comment on someone else's question thread, I'm notified of any reply to the particular answer or question I've commented on. However,...
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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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Why limit the number of times I can edit a comment? [duplicate]
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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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Tone down "edited comment" icon
Compared to other SE sites I've participated in, especially SO, the icon for "this comment was edited" sticks out like a sore thumb on Ask Ubuntu.
Could it be toned down?
Here's my crude attempt, ...
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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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My comments are being posted when I move to another window...
I start writing a comment... then I might move to another window to do something... time passes... I do many things in many windows... Then I come back to complete my askubuntu comment... and it has ...
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Should redirections to other questions / answers be comments or answers ?
A part of the answer to this question is, in my opinion, answering another "new" question. I wanted to redirect the person asking the "new" question to the existing answer and posted it as an answer.
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Can the star be on the browsing level of a question?
When I favor a question sometimes; I would like to be able to favor the question when I am browsing on the questions menu; as supposed to clicking the question and then favoring. I was wondering if I ...
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