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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. …

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 …

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 …

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, simpl …

post a comment start editing the comment I recently posted see that newer comments have been posted click the link to show the newer comments ...my editing of my [less than 5 minutes] old comment is … Comments are limited in both length and importance, so this is not as bad as other possible bugs that could cause loss of unsaved work, but it is annoying and reduces productivity. …

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 me …

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 comments as "too chatty" even when they don't appear in a sequence of comments: (in a question about the alternate CD) +1 the alternate …

Is there any good reason why we cannot flag comments as obsolete that we have previously upvoted? …

That's one of the big reasons comments can be upvoted--to prevent unnecessary additional comments from existing. … If you do see duplicate comments--which means comments conveying the same information, not just comments that have exactly the same wording--flag the duplicate (i.e., the second one). …

On the other hand, since comments are "second-class citizens", surely their upvotes are even more peripheral to the operation of Ask Ubuntu. … That could be taken as a reason to keep this and a minority of other comments expressing subjectively good ideas, without having to keep most such comments which turn from valuable information to clutter …

I know this is considered bad on main...but meta is different (for example, comments are hardly ever deleted by moderators on meta). …

When moderators convert an answer to and edit--which deletes the answer and places its content at the end of the question--do they have the ability to move the comments from that answer to the question … I presume that doing so would sometimes intersperse comments on the post-made-edit with comments on the question and create confusion, so this ability would have to be used carefully. …

That exact quoted text--"comments disabled on deleted / locked posts / reviews"--appears below locked or deleted posts in other situations. … But anyone who may view the post can still view the comments in such situations. So I conclude that it's not trying to tell me that I can't view the comments, only that I cannot post new ones. …