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There should probably be one about information gathering for various hardware issues including lsusb, lspci, lshw -c <whatever-we-want-to-know> or a combination of the above. Might be sensible to hav …

I'm sure there are awful ancient comments lurking in the system right now. …

You cannot post actual images in the comments. …

You can thank people in comments (many people appreciate it), just not in answers. …

You probably won't get support for this. Even if you do have local support here, you'd need somebody at StackOverflow Inc to push the change and they'd probably have to implement it over all sites. H …

Comment or if similar enough vote to close as an exact duplicate (it will post a comment for you). You wouldn't be adding anything, so it only needs a comment. If you want to reference another post t …

I've left comments only to find out that the answers on their questions are dud and they're doing the right thing by not accepting them. …

Is there a specific question you had in mind or is this global to all your main-site questions? You should be able to comment unless: You're not logged in properly. Anon and new users can't comment …

Comments are limited to: **bold** *italics* `code` [link text](http://example.com) There are also a few shortcuts for mentioning things like edit links, etc. … See the full help on comments for a better understanding. …

Can you know? No. But leave them a comment (using their @name if applicable) and they'll get a notification when they are online.

People often get stuck on who should be transposing answer-comments as answers. …

I'm a bit more relaxed about this than Jacob, mostly because I agree with the last sentence. Comment answers are a real pain because people trip over themselves in politeness to not transcribe it out …

I agree with your concern — we should engage with people more before closing things — but I think put in the position to close this question, I might followed suit and might have pulled the trigger wi …

And —in continuation to searchfgold6789's answer— if these comments are answers with question marks on the end, they should have been posted as answers in the first place. …

It does occasionally matter though... Even if it doesn't in this case. The people initially involved in the question might not know or appreciate the finer details of what's going on. Networking stack …