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.
4,086
questions
1254
votes
31
answers
48k
views
Encouraging people to explain downvotes
Note: If you're looking for a simple explanation as to why comments aren't required on downvotes, see Why isn't providing feedback mandatory on downvotes, and why are ideas suggesting such ...
707
votes
1
answer
139k
views
How do comment @replies work?
How do the comment replies (aka "pinging users") work?
Who can I send an @reply to?
How do I respond to a specific user when entering my comment?
Will they be notified?
What do people mean ...
569
votes
7
answers
11k
views
Cancelling upvote on comment?
As mentioned on uservoice:
For something that can be done so
easily by accident, there should be
the ability to undo mistakes.
I know that I have clicked several times on a comment up-vote ...
- 19.2k
455
votes
13
answers
13k
views
Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments
Ask yourself how many times you typed the following in a comment:
[meta](https://meta.stackexchange.com)
Me, personally, I'm sick of it. Can we have some data.stackexchange.com-style "magic links" ...
user1228
377
votes
3
answers
28k
views
Inline links in comments
Can we please have these?
I would like to be able to write something like [Inline Link](http://example.com/) and have it work in a comment instead of "Inline Link - http://example.com/".
Case in ...
- 4,319
373
votes
1
answer
97k
views
Why do I need 50 reputation to comment? What can I do instead?
Users with less than 50 reputation points cannot write comments on questions and answers that they don't own.
Why does this limit exist?
But I want to contribute now. What should I do instead?
But I ...
353
votes
28
answers
8k
views
Allow downvoting comments
Answers and questions allow both upvoting and downvoting - comments, however, only allow upvoting.
I think it would be useful to allow downvoting of comments for two reasons:
First, if you ...
- 4,295
343
votes
12
answers
8k
views
Don't remove the @ part of my comment
Recently I posted a comment on Stack Overflow on an answer by (say) Felix. He replied to the comment, and when replying to him I started my comment with "@Felix". Stack Overflow stripped that ...
- 23k
271
votes
36
answers
15k
views
Let's hold language in comments to the same standard as posts
Through his never-ending sense of wonder and curiosity, my colleague Jon Ericson recently posted some findings on his exploration into the possibility of ...hastily written... questions essentially ...
user50049
221
votes
6
answers
2k
views
Allow flagging a comment after upvoting it
It's sad to upvote a comment on a post that's subsequently updated in a way that renders the comment obsolete and not be able flag it afterwards.
There may well be other cases where one would want to ...
- 9,883
219
votes
1
answer
38k
views
How do comments work?
Across the Stack Exchange network you may leave comments on a question or answer.
How do comments work?
What are comments for, and when shouldn't I comment?
Who can post comments?
Who can edit ...
213
votes
12
answers
5k
views
What's with all the rude comments recently?
Maybe I've led a sheltered life until recently, but it really seems that comments are getting ruder and ruder. I've seen on questions by new users (rep of 1), particularly those for whom English is a ...
- 44.6k
208
votes
9
answers
2k
views
Should "move-to-chat" be provided on demand (as a button perhaps)?
When comments get too chatty the move-to-chat feature asks if you'd like to move it out. But this often happens after the fact and thus doesn't prevent it.
I propose that:
Move-to-chat be provided ...
- 2,280
205
votes
1
answer
26k
views
Adding links to Comments [duplicate]
While giving comments many times I wanted to add links to my comment. But instead of using some short hand like Read "this" (this is a link in this case) I had to write Read "http:\\www.somelink.com". ...
- 3,385
196
votes
6
answers
2k
views
Allow more than one @name notification per comment
Now this is probably a surprise to many since I always see thousands of comments like the following(10k only):
@Sarfraz, @balpha just told you they
did in the first comment he wrote.
Also, allowing ...
- 41.7k
191
votes
6
answers
14k
views
Direct Link to a Comment
The increase in the character limit of comments has led them to become as important as the questions and answers that spawn them. On several occasions (especially on meta) I've found reason to want to ...
- 8,841
191
votes
3
answers
2k
views
Provide a tool for moderators to migrate comments to chat
One issue we have on Programmers.SE is that people like to have extended discussions in comments on answers and questions. Try as we might to delete long comment chains and educate them about chat (...
user149432
190
votes
11
answers
10k
views
Reputation for comments?
I have seen many good comments that really improve the quality of questions and answers, and I think they deserve a bit of reputation (maybe just 1 point) for a upvote.
deleted
189
votes
10
answers
9k
views
Repository of useful pro-forma comments
Every tag has its questions that make the same mistake(s) over and over and over again. (But some tags more than others.)
That's where Benjol's pro forma comments script comes in. The only downside to ...
188
votes
4
answers
2k
views
Can we get a comments only lock?
Currently moderators have the ability to lock posts, for any of the following reasons:
Content dispute (~ edit wars),
Historical significance (to prevent great but off topic questions from being ...
- 56.3k
187
votes
5
answers
2k
views
Subscribing to questions and comments that don't belong to you
There has been some discussion about getting notified on comments to questions or answers that don't belong to you, and the long-standing wish to be able to keep track of new answers or developments ...
- 114k
180
votes
6
answers
2k
views
Can we get an indication comments are hidden between the comments?
When there are several comments some of them get hidden, which I don't mind, except when comments in the middle are hidden and I don't realize it till I get to the end. Then I have to unhide the ...
179
votes
2
answers
21k
views
How does comment voting and flagging work?
Comments can now be upvoted and flagged. How do those features work?
Do users get rep for their upvoted comments? Do upvoted comments have any effect on comment sorting? And can users see their own ...
172
votes
10
answers
9k
views
Why do some people answer in comments?
Why do some people post comments that are actually answers to the question? Wouldn't posting an answer be better?
- 4,888
167
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Stop inserting invisible characters into comments [duplicate]
Currently, the SE system inserts invisible characters (U+200C and U+200B) into text in comments if there's a "word" longer than 60 characters long, to force a break to preserve the layout. This is by ...
- 23k
166
votes
14
answers
9k
views
Pressing Enter in comment box unexpectedly submits form
I don't think I'm going any more crazy than normal, but I'm surprised I can't see any other meta mention so far. This started happening recently on at least SO and ubuntu.SE, and occurs in at least IE ...
- 2,747
165
votes
13
answers
19k
views
"What have you tried" epidemic
Statistics
The usage of "what you tried" (WHYT) is growing (v2)
In Q1 of 2012 - 0.0134 such comments per question (~1.33%)
In Q2 of 2012 - 0.0167 such comments per question (~1.66%)
In Q3 of ...
- 2,625
158
votes
5
answers
2k
views
Is it possible to import comments into a chat room without the link appearing? [duplicate]
Question: For an answer on a stack exchange site with say 8 comments, how can I / is it possible to import the comments into a chat room?
Background: I was helping with a question and made several ...
- 12.7k
157
votes
5
answers
8k
views
A guide to moderating comments
Commenting is one of the unsung heroes of Stack Exchange. The help center suggestions that you should submit a comment if you want to:
Request clarification from the author;
Leave constructive ...
157
votes
4
answers
2k
views
Replace links with the current question title in comments
In questions, links get converted into question titles (see Replace trilogy raw links with the current question title?)
Can the same functionality be added to comments?
- 3,034
153
votes
4
answers
2k
views
Tell the user who will be notified of a comment
Note 2011/09/20: Jeff's marked this status-completed. I (the person making the request) disagree that what's been done, which is actually an implementation of this other request, meets this request ...
- 23k
150
votes
3
answers
19k
views
How do I use formatting in comments? [duplicate]
I see some people write comments that are for example - in italics.
I do not see any way of doing that while writing my comments. Why is it so?
- 3,685
150
votes
10
answers
3k
views
Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don't own them)
I'd like the recent activity and responses pages to show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don't own them). If I leave a comment somewhere, I am implicitly engaging in ...
- 31.2k
146
votes
1
answer
11k
views
How can I find my comments on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
List of Comments on User Tab
Sometimes I ask other users for clarifications by commenting on questions. How do I find the comments I've written on Stack Overflow?
- 1,599
142
votes
3
answers
1k
views
Allow more than 1 comment upvote in 5 seconds [duplicate]
This dialog box pops up so much that it's annoying. Please have it removed or allow something like 5 comment upvotes every 5 seconds.
At the least, make the box very small or replace the vote button ...
- 2,604
142
votes
5
answers
1k
views
Could mods have "add comments to chat" to supplement "move comments to chat"?
Moderators can move comments to a chat room associated with the post, and now we don't even have to wait for 20 comments to be posted in a short period of time -- we can do this at any time via the ...
- 183k
138
votes
5
answers
1k
views
Don't delete comments with link to duplicate if they are modified
A user just posted his question a second time here on meta after the first was closed as a duplicate. I wrote a comment on the second post, explaining that the answer to his question is in the linked ...
- 187k
136
votes
7
answers
3k
views
Hide trivial comments
Update: this particular implementation has been abandoned for now, please help us measure the cost of displaying comments instead.
If you look around the internet, you'll find that:
99.9 percent of ...
- 79.7k
134
votes
4
answers
1k
views
Can we get x comment votes per y minutes, rather than one vote per 5 seconds?
I quite often will read a thread of comments, and want to vote up a few of them. I vote one up, read the next few comments, vote up another and get a *giant red box*.
I've seen that "You can only ...
- 23.1k
134
votes
1
answer
3k
views
Eeeeek - what happened to my @ salutation?
I just posted a comment beginning with @username, and my @username part of the comment disappeared (it was the first word in the comment).
Is there a lolcat inside the Stack Exchange database nomming ...
- 10.2k
126
votes
2
answers
6k
views
Why isn't it required to provide comments/feedback for downvotes, and why are proposals suggesting this so negatively received?
Sometimes my post receives downvotes with no explanation on what I've done wrong. Even worse, sometimes I just get snarky comments!
It seems like this is especially bad for new users, who are made to ...
125
votes
3
answers
1k
views
Adding a comment should not make me fail the review audit
I just failed these review audits in First Post, I read the question and thought it seemed reasonable but the user was deleted so to be on the safe side I clicked add comment and I failed the audit.
...
- 1,540
124
votes
7
answers
1k
views
Please make the multiple comment timer less annoying (non-resetting etc.)
As a little feature to prevent comment spam, you can only enter one comment every 15 seconds. That's a very reasonable limitation, since you very rarely have a good reason to write comments that ...
- 1,320
124
votes
7
answers
2k
views
Deleting a comment (mine) shouldn't count as a comment vote
I had an old question that I revisited in order to link it in a new answer. I noticed that in the comments Steven A Lowe had a funny comment that I -- at the time -- had responded to with "why can't I ...
- 44.6k
124
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Allow diamond moderators to comment on deleted or locked items
Moderators should be able to comment on things after normal users are unable to, such as when a post is deleted or locked. As a moderator on Programmers, I try to leave a comment (if necessary) before ...
- 54.1k
121
votes
12
answers
3k
views
Make comment flags less stupid
Update: declining this in favor of Drop "not constructive", combine "noisy", reword "rude" and "other" comment flags
I'm sick of comment flags, and I'm pretty ...
- 454k
119
votes
29
answers
5k
views
Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment
This question is a great example of people coming from Google and using answers as comments.
I understand the reputation threshold is there to prevent spam, but Answers are just as prone to spam as ...
- 2,864
119
votes
2
answers
21k
views
Is it acceptable to write a thank you in a comment?
There have been a number of cases where I would like to thank someone for providing me with a thorough response and give them feedback beyond the vote up. Often I wish people would tell me why they ...
115
votes
2
answers
4k
views
Did You Know... that 10k users can see deleted comments?
I realized something curious recently: that the AJAX backend feature that lets moderators view deleted comments also works for any users with the "access to moderator tools" privilege (10k+ rep on ...
- 31.7k
113
votes
5
answers
4k
views
How does a lurker gain reputation to receive privilege for commenting? [duplicate]
I have been reading Stack Exchange for years - mostly not logged in, and have never posted (this is my first). I'm simply not very talkative, and very good at googling.
Recently a few occasions have ...
- 1,233