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How to handle an answer as a comment? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to handle questions which are answered in the comments? Someone answered a question of mine in a comment. How do I handle the situation? I don't want to leave the question ...
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17 votes
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Notify on deletion of replied-to comment

There are quite a lot of apparent monologues in comments which where actually replies to other comments leaving an incomplete conversation. If the original commenter wants to delete his comment, those ...
Tobias Kienzler's user avatar
11 votes
1 answer
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Add support for linking "@username" in comments [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Let’s make it easier to reply within comments! As many people know, users will post comments, and refer to other users by name using the "@username" syntax. It would be ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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Autolink @username to the user identity/profile [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: @<name> comments should link to the named person’s profile (like twitter) Rampant throughout the system is the adopted usage @SoAndSo to target a user. However ...
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3 votes
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Add a [reply to comment] feature

Possible Duplicates: Reply to comment feature request Let’s make it easier to reply within comments! I would like a reply to comment feature to SO, so when someone replies to one of your ...
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When I hover over a comment, please change the background color of its parent post and all replies

Problem: When a post has dozens of comments (like this post does), it can be hard to tell which comment is a reply to which. My proposed solution: When I hover my mouse over a comment, please ...
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1 answer
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Some detail on @Username: why doesn't Stack Overflow write a link to the referred user? [duplicate]

I've read the post How do comment @replies work?, but I am not sure I understood how to refer correctly to a user, for example, Sha Wiz Dow Ard. If I got it right, I have to write @ShaWizDowArd ...
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1 answer
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Unable to reply to comments directly [duplicate]

We can't reply to a comment directly, There must be a reply option under each comments, So that if you want to reply to a comment, you click on that option, rather than commenting again!. (for example:...
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-7 votes
1 answer
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Reply button as standard feature for comments? (see from a new user's standpoint)

I do see that there are many questions about having a reply button but they all refer to this question for the answer: "Reply" links on comments This link allows users to install a script ...
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6 votes
0 answers
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Reply button for comments [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Let’s make it easier to reply within comments! A reply button for comments could come in handy. It could be placed just next to where the pencil is shown when a ...
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4 votes
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Reply to comment button [duplicate]

I would propose to add a small reply button when you want to reply on a comment, just like in chat: Sometimes it is hard to get the exact name of the person right, since he/she uses foreign ...
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A small reply icon for comments [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Let's make it easier to reply within comments! I think the site would be helped by having a small reply icon that appears on hover. Clicking it would start a new comment ...
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Add ability to reply to specific comment

Sometimes someone may post more than one comment on a post. If I am referring to one of their older comments it is hard to tell which one I am responding to, without going into details in the comment (...
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1 vote
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Making @mentions clickable [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: @<name> comments should link to the named person's profile (like twitter) Autolink @username in comments to most recent relevent post with #comment-123546 style ...
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Can we have a reply-to-this-comment arrow to click on, please? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Let's make it easier to reply within comments! In the chat, I became quite fond of the littte arrow to the right of every chat message to reply to that message: It ...
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