Timeline for Why isn't there a "comment needs conversion to answer" flag option and diamond moderator option? [duplicate]
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| Oct 18, 2017 at 21:55 | history | closed | ChrisFMod feature-request Users with the feature-request badge or a synonym can single-handedly close feature-request questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of Promoting comments to answers | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 22:44 | vote | accept | machineghost | ||
| Dec 27, 2012 at 22:02 | comment | added | machineghost | Agreed; I'm looking for a solution, and if the one I suggested is a bad one (say because it puts your rep in someone else's control) then clearly that's no good. But let's not throw babies out with bathwater: there are ways to solve your concern and still address this issue (like for instance making converted answers have no author, or not affect rep). | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 22:00 | comment | added | user176326 | "not happening" should not lead to "put someone else's rep at stake" | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 21:58 | comment | added | machineghost | @simchona It's great that you feel that way about your "answer comments", but the problem is others don't feel that way. Or at least I'm assuming they don't, because none of them are taking "comment answers" and converting them in to answers; instead everyone just lets the "answered unanswered question" sit there in the queue. So while there's nothing "morally wrong" with converting someone else's comment in to an answer (and even if you encourage it), it's just not happening right now. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 21:57 | comment | added | machineghost | @Dyanmic I really think it depends on the questions. Try spending a day in the Javascript unanswered queue and you'll be amazed by the number of questions that revolve around some really basic info that can be conveyed in a single sentence. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 21:56 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2012 at 21:53 | answer | added | yannis | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 21:50 | comment | added | user176326 | Also, I sometimes leave a short not-quite-answer in comments because I don't want to play the rep game with it. If someone can take it and make a good answer, great. But not me. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 21:47 | comment | added | Dynamic | Because usually if you can fit it in a comment, it's not a good answer. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 21:43 | history | edited | machineghost | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2012 at 21:41 | comment | added | machineghost | Oh, I misread another question. I'll amend my question then. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 21:40 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | Mods cannot convert comments to answers, only the other way around | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 21:37 | history | asked | machineghost | CC BY-SA 3.0 |