Questions tagged [comments]
Comments are small addenda to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting and intended to prompt clarifying edits. Can also be used for comments on the blog posts.
45 questions from the last 365 days
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Why are users allowed to upvote their own Community Bot comments?
When doing my daily reviews across the network, I the often leave a pre-written, generic Community Bot comment on questions/answers.
But once, I accidentally upvoted my own Bot comment. And obviously, ...
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One-line private comment when downvoting [duplicate]
I got a few downvoted questions, and would love to know why. I think it would be really good if it were possible for downvoters to write even a few words as to why they did so.
This is not because I ...
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Link provided when answer is automatically converted into a comment should mention the feature and its triggers
As per title, the page linked to when an answer is automatically converted into a comment doesn't mention automatic conversion of answers into comments.
This feature may be helpful, but it ...
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When I'm answering a question with comments going back and forth, how do I use chat? [duplicate]
When I'm answering a question with comments going back and forth (for more information from the OP), how do I use chat?
Do I:
create a new chat room specifically for that question, or
use a chat room ...
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Hiding controversial comments disrupts the flow of the discussion
SE hides comments with low or no upvotes in long discussions to prevent the comment section below a post from getting too long and the user having to scroll to see the next post.
This is usually a ...
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My comment wasn't posted when voting to close as "Other" as the final vote. Is this a bug?
This might be a duplicate of No comment posted when question is closed as off-topic because ... > other
Reference question: Ballistic Coefficients in a Zero G and Perfect Vacuum
I was the final ...
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Why are my only options "edit" and "decline" (when "edit" doesn't work) for a flag on a deleted comment?
It looks like a comment being deleted no longer clears any comment flags (at least for duplicate auto comments), but there are only two options remaining (edit/decline), one of which doesn't even work:...
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Reading the full comment addressed to me on a question that got deleted quickly afterwards
I commented on a question (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4986265) over on Math.SE. When I returned a minute or two later, the question had been deleted, and I could see in my inbox that ...
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Inconsistency on using comments to "add more information"
If you open the comment box, the grayed-out tooltip text says
Use comments to ask for clarification or add more information [emphasis mine]
However, the faq says
They are not for:
Providing ...
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Allow high-rep community members to help review No Longer Needed comment flags
TL;DR Please, allow very-high rep users (50,000 rep on "full" rep levels, 10,000 rep on "beta" rep levels, and 5,000 rep on "private beta" rep levels) to help review No ...
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Extremely long inline code in comments overflows right sidebar [duplicate]
It's egregious e.g. when the viewport exceeds the 1180px's boundary, however it acts erraticly at many viewport sizes.
Ubuntu 24.04.1 / Google Chrome 129.0.6668.58. I can't reproduce it on Firefox 130....
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Please make the timestamps of comments to have only a single color per site
I was surfing in some of SE sites and I found this strange thing: There are two types of colors for the timestamp of a comment (in some sites I think).
Two examples are French site and ELU site:
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Make non-moderator "move to chat" move all comments and work better with moderator "move to chat"
When 2 users post a few back-forth comments on a post, a user sees:
Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?
If clicked, the ...
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Allow sites to customize the threshold (currently 20) for comments to trigger a flag from the Community user
When comments below a question or answer exceed 20, there is an automatic flag raised to moderators (PostTooManyCommentsAuto), which also points out that comments are not intended for extended ...
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Automatically prevent the posting of some non-helpful comments/answers
I notice there are a lot of non-helpful comments and answers. I’d imagine a lot of those could be automatically prevented by disallowing comments/answers that have no words other than a certain set of ...
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Styling of comment timestamps becomes similar to usernames when I click onto the timestamps
Maybe related to this, but the reproduction step aren’t the same and I think it is more related to this new announcement. I think this bug is related to “visited timestamps”.
First way to reproduce:
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Last Data Dump is completely missing ContentLicense for Comments
I noticed that in the latest data dump, the Comments.xml files do not provide a ContentLicense for any of the rows, even though it is available in SEDE.
Here is an example of looking at the first few ...
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I can still edit comments on deleted posts [duplicate]
Apparently I can edit a comment on a post that I deleted:
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The "characters left" counter does not update while using speech recognition on Safari
Steps to reproduce:
Open Safari on macOS.
Add a comment on any Stack Exchange post.
Turn on speech recognition entry on the mac (typically double-tap the fn-like key, but your system may vary).
Talk ...
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Styling of comment timestamps becomes similar to usernames when comments are expanded
When clicking the "Show N more comments" on a post the styling of the comment timestamps of other posts on the same page becomes similar to the styling of the comment author's display name.
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Moderators trying to delete or undelete comments are now prompted to confirm (and canceling does not work)
As a moderator on a site that I moderate, upon clicking the "delete" link on a comment, I am shown a "Really delete this comment?" browser confirmation prompt; regardless of how I ...
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When a moderator upvotes a comment on a site they moderate, the error message "You cannot mark a comment more than once" shows up
I recently upvoted a comment (first time upvoting that specific comment) on my meta site and received an error message stating "You cannot mark a comment more than once." Another mod ...
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The "talkative" user problem
After asking questions and providing answers here for about 10 years, few days ago I have faced with a very irritating problem.
Currently, the subject of my interest is ImageMagick, a command-line ...
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For how long can I edit comment... really?
I have just seen this:
Followed by this (after hitting "Cancel"):
One of these information is in contradiction with another.
What is the exact value of timeframe where I can edit my ...
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Too low baseline with italics in comments
I noticed that some of the italicized words in comments are too low, on at least one site. See I pronounce question as kweshtin. Is my pronunciation wrong? and also the following screenshot:
Comment ...
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Voting for comments from the review queues doesn't work
If you click on the up arrow next to a comment from the review queue, the page scrolls and the voting doesn't work (printscreen is from Stack Overflow in Russian, but I think, the language isn't ...
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Comment @reply name suggestions are missing from review queues
Normally when I type a comment and type @ followed by the first letters of the name of another commenter, there will be an autocomplete suggestion that I can press Tab to accept:
However, I have just ...
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Is there a reason not to enable replacing internal SE URL text on comments with the page linked to? [duplicate]
On Super User, I looked for a Linux proportional font terminal, and found OS X or X11 terminal emulator supporting proportional fonts, in which the accepted answer suggested a Mac port of Emacs, but ...
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If a comment URL is pasted to chat will the message be retained if the underlying comment is deleted?
Let's say I paste a comment URL such as:
https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/100303/what-are-christian-responses-to-graham-oppys-argument-for-atheism-from-naturali#comment284517_100303
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Should I respond to a question where I have worthwhile information to contribute, but no concrete answer?
I saw a question where a person describes their context, to which I have a considerable amount of information that I am certain the user (and similar users like him) will find useful, but none that ...
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Why doesn't the username in mentions not get auto-edited when the original one does? [duplicate]
I used to go by "d4rk4ng31" (um, as you might have already guessed, silly teenage years) which then I changed (long back, but I just noticed this as I am not a very active member anymore). I ...
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Tapping on username while commenting after @ symbol with a high probability leads to invalid system response on touch screen devices
It's very hard to correctly select user name while commenting on mobile devices. Even when tap is marked inside the tooltip with username, as the result system decided that I tapped on the link from ...
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When there are multiple comments on my post, have the notification lead to the oldest
Currently if multiple comments on one of your own posts, you get a single notification, not multiple. What happens is that all comment notifications for the same post are grouped together, only the ...
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Will edited comments to one post notify the poster multiple times? [duplicate]
I checked the What events trigger an inbox notification? and searched for "edit" but didn't find this specific problem about "edited comments".
Since "Another user comments on ...
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Is answering closed questions via comments allowed? [duplicate]
When a question is closed, you can still comment on it. Say that you know the answer to the question. Are you allowed to answer it in a comment?
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Has there been a global change to how comments are displayed?
My understanding is that there is a per-site configuration on how to display comments. On Software Engineering, the last time comments were discussed on Meta, the behavior was that some comments would ...
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How should I inform a user I'm using their answer in a book?
I used my popular question Do Projects Ever End Early? as the basis of a book I wrote. (Available for free, for a limited time, here.)
What is the appropriate protocol to inform the 14 users whose ...
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Is it possible to require pre-approval for content on an SE site? If not, how can I deal with a site with too much hostile content?
The comments on this Politics SE answer are but one of example of how argumentative and caustic people can be to each other specifically on that SE site compared to other SE sites.
I am open to the ...
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Rate limit for posting comments seems to not be enforced
According to The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide creation of comments is limited to 3 per 30 seconds.
However, today I saw a user seemingly post a lot more comments than that limitation suggests. Since I ...
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How can I install the Stack Exchange Auto Comments for Google Chrome?
How can I install Auto Comments script for Google Chrome?
The Google Chrome extension listed on GitHub doesn't exist anymore.
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Markdown for links in comments sometimes breaks with angle brackets and nested square brackets
The following markdown:
[[example].com](https://www.example.com) (<https://www.example.com/abc>)
Produces this in a post:
[example].com (https://www.example.com/abc)
But this in a comment:
[[...
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Why is the color contrast in the comment instructions barely readable? [duplicate]
This is an example from the Politics site. I have noticed it on other beta sites. Black font letters on a medium-dark blue background is difficult to read.
I am sorry about the large section that is ...
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Answering-in-answer-posts versus answering-in-comments. What is the metric? What are the motives, etiquettes? What is ideal?
I'm noticing that more often than not, across all the communities that I interact with, people will answer a question via a comment rather than by posting an answer.
Is there a tracked metric for the ...
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Colors of code-formatted text in comment help is difficult to read
The new color scheme on the collapsible help section when adding a comment is very difficult to read for the highlighted sections. The new darker highlight does not have enough contrast with the black ...
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Feature of posting a question as an anonymous guest user (without having an account) is not useful and it leads to incorrect answers / comments
Posting a question as an anonymous guest user (without having an account) is allowed but for commenting 50 reputations are required.
A guest user (who doesn't have an account) can't accrue any ...
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