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The site expects certain things from posts in order to pass the quality filter. Just from scanning them; you should probably fix up some of the punctuation and capitalization of your posts and proba …

The way Ask Ubuntu works is by editing your question, not doing a back and forth in the comments. …

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/autoreviewcomments-pro-forma-comments-for-se … We have quite a collection of community maintained comments, should we the AU community provide this as a service to our users so we can make it easier to maintain and for newer contributors to use? …

[A]Comments as an answer (new users) Please don't add comments as answers. … [A]Comments as an answer (experienced users) Please don't add comments as answers. Use actual comments when seeking clarification of any issues. …

Ok so I've spent a few days doing hardcore cleaning and we have a problem with comments and people misusing them. … or better yet, reuse and improve the existing precanned comments. …

From meta.stackoverflow: Rules: Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on, or editors of the current post. … Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named "John" in the comments, writing "hey @john, have you considered apples?" …

In addition to Jeff's response I try to use links to prexisting questions in comments to nudge people in the right direction. … Also, as a whole we could all do a better job going back into old answers and cleaning up (deleting) old comments that made sense while trying to work out the problem with the person and instead now just …

Someone found a problem, didn't have the reputation, but misused the site in good faith, allowing it to get on your radar, and then we found the duplicate, fixed it, updated it, merged it, and then ma …

If people are posting good information in comments then they're using the site wrong, comments are for prodding information out of people and "meta work". …

Everything there looks fine to me. As far as tone goes; the site is community moderated, the standard of behavior should be the same -- you were helpful and courteous and the user ultimately found t …

If they don't bother to post it as an answer I usually put it as an answer, give them credit, and then mark it Community Wiki. You can then flag the comment as "obsolete" so it can be removed and not …

I think what should be happening here is if you've got a question with not enough information and comments asking for information and they're not being provided then do the next person a favor and downvote …

Possible things to try: Can you try it again? Maybe you collided with someone editing your question? It should just let you edit your question. how about just clicking "edit" on the question instead …

This is by design, probably to encourage people to have the content in questions and answers and not comments. Reference: Allow HTML tags in comments …

There are 41 comments on that entire page. People are obviously talking past each other. We have 9,786 unanswered questions. …