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I have been reading the contributions following this question when I noticed a user has posted a comment below one of the existing answers.

I am wondering how come the user has been able to comment when his reputation is only 1. Normally, we can comment only if we have at least 50 reputation (if the post is not ours, as in this case). So how did this happen?

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    Most likely they left an answer which was converted into a comment.
    – ale
    Commented Sep 21, 2017 at 17:59
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    Seems like a site-specific question? I know it happens everywhere but the mods on InfoSec are more likely to be able to answer this than the normal users here.
    – Catija
    Commented Sep 21, 2017 at 18:04
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    @Catija "Seems like a site-specific question?" No, that applies everywhere.
    – user0042
    Commented Sep 21, 2017 at 18:12
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    That's a plausible explanation except for the whole "trivial answer w/ link" requirement which doesn't exist here, @ale. As bluefeet noted, this was an explicit moderator action.
    – Shog9
    Commented Sep 21, 2017 at 18:42
  • @shog9: All of the other similar questions I found were closed as duplicates of that one.
    – ale
    Commented Sep 21, 2017 at 18:43
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    Yeah, that's why I spent a few minutes looking for a better target, albeit one that's considerably less obvious.
    – Shog9
    Commented Sep 21, 2017 at 18:43

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They originally posted an answer which was converted to a comment by a moderator on the site. The original answer has just been deleted.

Mods have the ability to manually convert answers to comments.

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  • you can mention the auto conversion too for internal link only answers
    – Optimus Prime
    Commented Sep 22, 2017 at 6:45