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Add an "answer in comments" flag reason

Answers in comments are a thing comments aren't for. It's an issue enough for RPG.SE and for IPS.SE that we have meta topics saying not to do it, and on the site I moderate, "answer in comments" or ...
doppelgreener's user avatar
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1 answer
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Can the recidivism system be applied to comments?

Posting comments, like posting questions, should be seen as a consumable resource that can in fact be depleted. We should be encouraging users to post questions or answers, not comments. Some ...
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Was "other" flag renamed to "in need of moderator intervention"?

I just noticed that in place of the prior "Other" flag option (that was right there yesterday), there is a new text: in need of moderator intervention A problem not listed above that requires ...
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Can we add more information to "no longer needed" flags?

As a moderator on a couple comment-heavy sites, I see a lot of "no longer needed" comment flags. But that doesn't tell me why it's no longer needed, so to evaluate it I usually have to read through a ...
Monica Cellio's user avatar
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Reorganise the LQ, FP and LA queues to have one queue about improving and guiding and one about deciding deletion

TL;DR: Split the low-quality queue in two, separating posts with possible quality issues (autoflagged posts) and posts that may need to be deleted (NAA, gibberish), as having both of them together ...
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Simplistic way of marking a comment addressed to self as "read", "agreed with", etc [duplicate]

There are cases when I write a comment addressed to me just to say "yes you are right", "thanks, fixed" or "taken into account" etc. It would be nice to have a simplistic way of doing so without ...
Euri Pinhollow's user avatar
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1 answer
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As a user signing up to reward a user for their answer found via Google; Is earning 15 rep necessary before being allowed to? [duplicate]

I found a very elegant answer to a question and considered signing up to let the user know they helped me by giving an up vote. After considering my signup options I was about to skip signing up but I ...
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Answering part of a question

Sometimes, a single question on SO may actually be composed of 2 or more smaller and closely related questions. The current example I'm thinking of is this one: std::move into static_pointer_cast: Why ...
Nir Friedman's user avatar
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Show Deleted Comment in Expanded Question View in Flag Queue

When handling flags (and especially comment flags), it would be beneficial to be able to see the deleted comments on a post. For example, user A makes a comment, user B replies, user A deletes their ...
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