Timeline for Allow users with lots of rep (3500?) to promote “comments” to “answers" [duplicate]
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/
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| Jan 13, 2014 at 16:44 | comment | added | Brad Larson Mod | Moderators currently have the inverse ability (convert answers to comments), so I could see adding the other half of this. However, while we get dozens of flags each day pointing out answers that could be comments, I've only seen a handful of flags total over the last year that asked us to convert comments to answers. Making this a capability for normal community members would require adding another layer of a voting system on comments, which might be difficult from an infrastructure and interface point of view, while not affecting many questions. A moderator-only tool could make sense. | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 13:24 | history | closed |
Himanshu Frédéric Hamidi Mołot Wooble Aziz Shaikh |
Duplicate of What should be done with questions that have been resolved as a comment instead of an answer?, How to mark comment as answer? [duplicate] | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 13:18 | comment | added | Richard Tingle | @WilShipley Rep cannot go negative, it is pegged at one, and no (extreme situations aside) nothing bad will happen | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 12:56 | comment | added | Pekka | One upvote will offset two and a half downvotes. Don't worry, it'll work out fine in the long run. Welcome to Meta; the suggestion (and many of the points you make in the comments about discoverability) is fair, but people disagree with the feature suggestion itself | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 12:53 | history | edited | Wil Shipley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added paragraphs about the limitations of community wiki answers.
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| Jan 13, 2014 at 12:42 | comment | added | Wil Shipley | What happens when my meta goes negative? Anything bad? | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 12:41 | comment | added | Richard Tingle | @WilShipley Its just meta rep, it doesn't affect your main account | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 12:40 | comment | added | Wil Shipley | I’m not sure I love the idea of losing my reputation just because I posted an idea people don’t want to see implemented. | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 12:35 | comment | added | Richard Tingle | Btw I note that you're a long term stack overflow users but a new meta user. So I should say that voting on meta is different. Votes can be of the normal form but can also simply be disagreeing with the idea. I personally [don’t like this system]( meta.stackexchange.com/a/182028/220332) and would be in favour of a change to separate voting for the idea but that is the current system. | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 12:33 | comment | added | Wil Shipley | The fact remains that the usability of this site for people who are in the business of posting answers is close to abysmal. There’s no way to say, “Never show this question again,” so we’re stuck with trying to find questions without answers or without accepted answers, and seeing them same ones over and over. | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 11:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 13, 2014 at 11:18 | comment | added | Mołot | I often comment with a hint if I don't have time to actually test something or to write full answer. And I often upvote answers that describe the very same solution, just in full. I would feel bad if someone promoted my hint comment to answer - it would either give me downvotes for not really useful answer, or upvotes for the work done by the one who edited it into shape. | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 11:17 | answer | added | Richard Tingle | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 11:15 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | If an answer is so short that it is in a comment, it probably should stay a comment. It should only become an answer if it is made more substantial. | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 11:14 | comment | added | Richard Tingle | You can just answer yourself using the comment, post as community wiki for guilt free helping | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 11:13 | history | asked | Wil Shipley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |