I posted an answer to a question, and a user posted a comment that I feel is better handled in chat. In a previous question, I was prompted to move the comment to chat when it went over a certain limit. Can I move comments to chat without having hit that limit?
asked Sep 16, 2011 at 20:59
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25spam a bit. it will show you your link– genesisCommented Sep 16, 2011 at 21:11
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8@genesis, are you suggesting that I add a bunch of nonsense comments in order for the link to come up?– Micah HainlineCommented Sep 16, 2011 at 21:14
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1But be sure to clean up the spam afterward....– squillmanCommented Sep 16, 2011 at 21:14
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4@MicahHainline: it was a joke. But to be honest, yes, but delete them afterwards– genesisCommented Sep 16, 2011 at 21:15
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9Or you could just post a comment saying "@user Can we discuss this in chat? link_to_chat_room_you_created"– agfCommented Sep 16, 2011 at 21:18
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I tried that solution @genesis, and couldn't get it to work.– Micah HainlineCommented Sep 16, 2011 at 21:21
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5I'd turn that into a feature-request.– Nikana ReklawyksCommented Nov 12, 2012 at 22:03
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11The feature-request: Request the ability to move to chat before it is suggested.– aweCommented Aug 19, 2013 at 9:15
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1Holy crap, for some reason, sometimes I can't seem to get prompted. I just tried it, but after 12 posts ... still nothing! any idea how to force this? does the content of the comments have to contain many characters? Does the other party have to respond often too?– Ben PhilippCommented May 15, 2015 at 9:21
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@BenPhilipp It may be a requirement that there actually be a two-way discussion. I didn't see the link on this question until the last comment I made to Oded. I am guessing there has to be a minimum number of discussion comments going on before it prompts, as sometimes I see it immediately, sometimes not so much.– Der KommissarCommented Jun 10, 2015 at 18:38
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2After trying to get OP into a chat I learned today that they need at least a rep of 20 to participate in chat. I tried.– ficuscrCommented Jul 24, 2015 at 20:56
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1Pretty suboptimal state of affairs. I they really want to stop chat in the comments this should be made easier.– geotheoryCommented Nov 30, 2015 at 13:29
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1I think you can bypass the 20 rep limit, by giving the users with less than <20 reps you want to chat a write access to your chatroom.– yanesCommented Dec 3, 2015 at 1:16
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1Related feature request: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/100967/…– MartinCommented Sep 11, 2016 at 6:28
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2@genesis Why not solve the problem (adding a new button or something) instead of asking millions of users to apply crooked workarounds?– RodrigoCommented Aug 22, 2017 at 14:31
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2 Answers
There are a few options to move comments to chat. You can create your own chat room and manually invite the other user to chat. You can also add a few extra messages to the conversation in the comments so that the option to move the conversation to chat comes up. You can then delete the extra messages and possibly tell the other user what you were doing. One last option is very cool, but can only be done by a moderator on the site where the conversation is taking place. All that you have to do is this command into the Javascript console:
$.post('admin/posts/' + post_id + '/move-comments-to-chat', {fkey:StackExchange.options.user.fkey});
where post_id is the id of the post with the comments you want to move to chat (obviously). This will leave a comment inviting the other user to chat, but the messages will still have to be manually deleted, which is easy if you are a moderator.
This is a bot run by @michaelpri a moderator on two SE sites
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3@GeorgeBailey I am a moderator on a site. It has been a while, but I believe I tried it on the site that I moderate and it didn't work. Either way, mods now have a menu option to move everything to chat before the limit is reached.– mikeazoCommented Sep 1, 2016 at 15:26
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The 2nd option (available to (almost) everyone and that doesn't involve creating a chat room), seems more like a lame workaround (gainarie) :) . Commented Dec 27, 2017 at 22:32
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I just tried adding comments to get the "move to chat" to come up and after 8 additional comments I gave up and deleted the garbage I created Commented Nov 26, 2021 at 11:09
agf's comment is correct. Move the discussion to chat by discussing in chat, and stop commenting on the post. If the other user doesn't want to move, that's OK, you don't have to discuss it. Flag one of the comments for moderator cleanup if need be, and move on :)
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4I'm interested in how the feature actually works. It's more of a how-to question than a why-should. If the answer is "It's impossible to move a small set of comments to chat" that's fine. That's what I'm interested to know though. Commented Sep 16, 2011 at 21:36
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@MicahHainline I can't find anything about the specifics of how it works, oddly, but there is no way to do it before it prompts you.– user154510Commented Sep 16, 2011 at 21:41
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1be aware that you can create your own room to have a discussion. Commented Sep 16, 2011 at 21:46
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28@studiohack But then the previous comments dont get migrated to the room like they would with the generated link.– chownCommented Nov 15, 2011 at 22:49
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11Also when you have the option to automatically move the discussion to chat, you will have a generated link back to the origin at the beginning of the chat. It is much more work to do this manually by first having to create a new chat thread, then add a link to the original comments, and then create a link to the chat from the original comments. Yes, it is a posible workaround, but it would be much better to have the option to do it in one click - Maybe as a link button on the right side of the comment field above the help link button saying "move to chat".– aweCommented Aug 19, 2013 at 9:10
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2@awe How about a Greasemonkey script before StackExchange rolls out such functionality? Commented Dec 19, 2016 at 15:14