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This feature would lead to comments being used incorrectly (even more often). Comments are a lightweight, secondary part of the Stack Exchange system. … Normally comments should not be posted as answers. But when they can be modified and expanded so they answer the question, then they should be answers and not comments. …

Comments are editable by moderators (even after any amount of time). I don't know if moderators want to edit a lot of comments to fix obfuscated links, but it is possible. … I'd want to hear moderators' viewpoint on this before asking flagging large numbers of comments to request editing of obfuscated links. …

This is a perfectly fine use of comments; once it's been added to the question, the comments can be removed. … It is best seen that way, and comments are primarily for secondary, temporary purposes. Comments are removed under a variety of circumstances. …

I have extensively customized my pro-forma userscript comments (with new comments and new wordings/linkifications for default ones). … (My pro-forma userscript comments are stored in Chromium.) How can I back up, and restore, these comments? I can back up my entire profile, which contains them. …

Is it answered in comments? … If there are comments that effectively answer the question, or that may answer the question and may be helpful to others, those comments should be (or should have been turned into) answers! …

would only be slight, is it justifiable for me to delete my original comment, which has served its purpose, in order to make the comment "thread" shorter and easier to understand overall, and to make new comments … But since I can never be sure of who is relying on my comments, I'm inclined to think I should probably avoid deleting them unless they are truly unproductive. …

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 comm …

Provided that a question asks the same thing as another question on the same StackExchange site, the way we deal with that should not just be to comment with a link, but to close the question as a dup …

Then you gain the ability to post comments on your questions and on answers to them, as well as to mark an answer as the accepted answer. …

I agree with Flimm that OP doesn't need to be the FAQ. But I do think it should be in the glossary. And it is in the glossary! It's somewhat confusingly under "Ask Ubuntu/Stack network specific terms …

As a fellow non-moderator, I cannot view most flags, nor any deleted comments. … Technically, I think moderators have less restrictive rate-limiting on posting many comments in a short time. …

This feature was added. But it is deliberately limited. To remove an upvote from a comment, you must not have left the page since casting the vote, and it must be within a minute of casting the vote. …

So yes, unconstructive comments should be flagged. Find the flag icon by moving your mouse pointer directly to the left of the comment. … Similarly, correct comments are not always constructive. Comments are "second class citizens" in the Stack Exchange system. …

The only real disadvantage I can think of to a properly designed reply button is that it might lead to more replying, encouraging protracted conversations in comments. … But in addition to having lots of comments that intend but don't achieve a notification, we also have numerous comments that already use this notation unnecessarily, sometimes unintentionally. …

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 outlin …