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.
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Let's make it easier to get a room
Let's make it easier for people discussing a post in comments to retire to chat, without waiting for comments to pile up until the system prompts them or a moderator acts. There are two main use ...
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Add quote markup to comments
Comments have a very restricted markup ability. Currently supported text markups available are
Italic text
Bold text
code
One of the very common things people do in comments that is not supported ...
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Supporting your candidate for moderator & being nice
Elections are one of the backbones of the Stack Exchange network. It gives the community a huge voice in determining the handful of people to who will volunteer to have their role on the site ...
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So nice, we said it twice: "User is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct."
When I was leaving my second comment under a new contributor's post, I got a duplicate message:
User is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Sadly, the limit is two, no ...
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Remove the "thanks for flagging" popup after the user has raised a number of flags
Currently, whenever anyone flags a comment, they get this popup:
or, more recently:
I personally find this really annoying, especially since I flag a great many comments a day (on the order of ...
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iOS 11-13 - unable to paste into comments
I’m able to copy-paste from any application to any application. I’m able to copy from a comment or from a question or from an answer. I’m able to paste to a question or answer. However, if I attempt ...
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Allow rejected editors to be @replied to
Within the canonical answer on how-do-comment-replies-work it is clear that post editors can be replied to.
Notifications apply to the author, users with active bounties,
commenters (associated ...
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Add a "remove in 60 days" comment flag
The current modus operandi to clean up comment threads that are extremely chatty, obsolete, or consist of pointless discussion is to flag them for moderator attention.
This works; however, it would ...
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Comment (or answer) notifications in the global inbox should include the author's username
I would like to see who left a comment in my global inbox like this:
And also for answers:
(Except, of course, I would like the actual commentor's name, not "The Person Who Left The Comment".)
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It's time to revert removing @name from comments
Yes, I am aware of:
Eeeeek - what happened to my @ salutation?
Don't remove the @ part of my comment
Alert users as to why their @lert is being removed from comments
But now that several years ...
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Touch friendly comments
I have a Windows 8 tablet with a touch screen (Surface pro) using IE10, I do not like to use the mouse a lot since it is touch, SE sites are not really touch friendly and the mobile version looks ugly ...
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Can we have an "edit question" magic link for answer comments?
Yet another request for a magic link. In the following situations:
I answer a question, the asker replies to me in a comment, and I want to reply to them asking them to edit certain information into ...
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Deleting comments under posts in the mod queue should be easier
Ever since mods gained the ability to undelete comments, deleting them has become easier as the confirmation dialog was removed.
However, this is not the case in the mod queue — I still get a ...
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Please make the revision histories of comments visible to their authors
When one posts a comment, one is able to edit it during a brief grace period. Moderators can edit any comment at any time.
A comment that has been edited will have a little pencil symbol:
Moderators ...
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Reduce the threshold for comment deletion with flags
I have it on good authority that it takes six flags from ordinary users to delete a comment. This makes no sense; it only takes five community votes to close a question, and three to delete a post. ...
user102937
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For moderators, please add the "undelete" button to all deleted comments
Well, we're not exactly on the same page as a team on undeletions.
In dealing with the comments on this post — I noticed that a comment (with broader context) containing some trigger keyword was ...
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Can we add some more trigger words to the one-flag-comment-delete mechanism?
We just had a rather unsavoury answer on SO from someone distinctly unhappy with the service they received. To put it mildly.
In particular, there were these two comments under the post:
I've flagged ...
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Why is there no autocomplete for pinging editors?
I hope this example shows why autocomplete would be useful beyond the comfort of the commenter:
I recently had an issue where someone edited a post (which I'm not the author of) only to add one extra ...
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Can a community have its own internal magic links?
I'm talking about magic links, which are very useful while posting comments. We frequently use [tour] , [help], [ask], [ans] etc. while introducing new users about How Stack Exchange works.
On ...
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Add a [conduct] shortcut similar to [help] and [tour] to link to the code of conduct in comments
I like the [help] and [tour] shortcuts to concisely direct people to a specific section of the help in whatever site I’m commenting on.
Can a [conduct] or [code] or similar magic link to create a ...
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Be able to specify a particular room in the chat magic link
From Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments there are several very useful magic links that show up in comments. In particular, there's [chat].
[chat] – link to the current site's ...
user213963
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Can we have magic links for comments that link to help center of the site we're recommending?
I love using magic links for referring someone to a more appropriate stack.
However, if I'm recommending that someone check out another Stack, often times I want to give them a direct link to their ...
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Dupehammer creates and deletes a comment, causing notifications to go out
The dupehammer is a good system. But when a gold badge holder closes a question, a comment still gets created on the voter's behalf, even though it will be immediately deleted by the system due to the ...
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Comment vote throttling makes it annoying to clean up obsolete chat
If I have a back-and-forth of say 4 comments each while refining an answer, I will then need to clean up my comments (presuming they are incorporated into the answer), then possibly flag my partner's. ...
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Editing comments steals my mouse!
IE 10.0.9200.16660
Windows 8
Steps to reproduce:
Open Internet Explorer
Navigate to http://serverfault.com (and possibly any other SE site)
Create a comment
Edit that comment
Finalize the edit by ...
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Better way for moderators to see comments from a specific user to a specific user
Moderators can view a history of all the comments left by a user, including deleted ones (profile → mod → info → comments). This is convenient, among others, when investigating situations involving ...
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Could you remove (or change) the "Add comment" hint from deleted answers?
Steps to reproduce:
Hover the comments disabled on deleted / locked posts / reviews text on any deleted or locked post and you'll see the following hint (this hint is normally used for add comment ...
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Always collapse comments on deleted answers
As noted elsewhere that comments take up a lot of vertical space and attention on a page. While it isn't costing any more votes on a deleted post, it still is distracting.
With comments on deleted ...
user213963
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Chat-migrated comments: "Discussion between ..."
While it is not listed in the Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange, there seems to be a new feature which allows migrating longer comment threads to chat. Or I suddenly got more chatty, I remarked ...
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Closing 'own' question leaves a nonsensical comment
(Comment link; it was not auto-deleted as suggested in a comment)
Notice the color of the username's background. It is the question asker. When closing own question, the new auto-comment does not ...
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Long display name with no spaces breaks design of comments
We have a user (on Skeptics.SE) with a long display name and no spaces (30 characters of Unicode). [I've chosen not to link to them; they are innocent here.]
There have have been several complaints ...
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People who bounty other peoples questions should be listed via comment autocomplete
So a user places a bounty on a question but has no interaction with that question. It looks like they can be the focus of a comment but they do not appear in the reply autocomplete.
Considering that ...
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Could Markdown and mini-Markdown have the same support for backticks?
In comments, mini-Markdown sometimes has a different syntax for backticks within backticks: when the code starts and/or ends with a backtick, one needs escaping. In those cases, could mini-Markdown ...
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Add [privileges] to magic comment links
I have been viewing a lot of first posts from new users. I often see answers such as "thanks", or "me too", or they are asking a different question altogether. I like to point out the fact that they ...
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Provide autocomplete for magic links in the comment editor
There are a ton of magic links which expand in the comments, some of which are main, meta, or community specific, and some which are templatized (on the surface, I'm not sure if they are explicitly ...
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Add pings to "moved to chat" comments
When comments are moved to chat, pings in the chat room do not notify anyone until the pinged person visits the new chat room. This often instantly kills the discussion entirely, simply because the ...
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Change the "Stage 1 - Warning" part of the enforcement section of the code of conduct to reflect actual real enforcement
When reading over the new code of conduct I found something concerning in the "enforcements" section.
For most first-time misconduct, moderators will remove offending content and send a warning. ...
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How can we make comment moderation one-pass instead of two-pass?
A fairly common experience I have goes something like this:
Auto-flag is raised due to comment volume.
I visit the post and start reading the 32 comments currently there. (More arrive while I'm ...
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When should comments be flagged/deleted on per-site metas?
We all know what comments are for -- and aren't, but that guidance is, naturally, geared toward main sites, where we want to keep things clean and focused. Meta, on the other hand, is a site's "...
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Voting to close as duplicate no longer up-votes the auto-generated comment
Until fairly recently, if I voted to close a question as a duplicate, the system would automatically up-vote the existing "possible duplicate of Foo" comment (if there was one).
This no longer seems ...
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Able to post comments on comment-locked questions by triggering the trivial answer conversion to comment script
The system has a feature where if one posts an answer with very short text and an internal link to another post on the site, it will not be posted as an answer, but instead as a comment, telling the ...
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Comment Overflow?
I was reading this question when I saw a bug with this comment:
It is quite evident that the user who commented this included some code in his comment, but the comment just, well, overflowed.
I am ...
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Improved IME Handling is now active
In the past there was an issue (reported for example on the Japanese Language Meta) where pressing the Enter key to select an IME suggestion would also submit the comment.
The good news is that we ...
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Make comment upvotes and flags in review queues be committed immediately
While investigating this bug, I realized that upvotes and flags on comments from review queues are not committed until the review is completed. That is, if I skip the review, it will be as though I ...
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Easier mechanism to display MathJax in comments
Prelude
I am currently aware of the reason behind why the Android App does not allow rendering of MathJax in comments via with no explanation to indicate otherwise. This issue is a technical one that ...
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Allow me to move comments on a post to the question when converting an answer to an edit
There are a number of times where a user will erroneously post what should be an edit on an answer.
A number of those times, there are other users that will still follow up the entire question on the ...
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Show all comments if there is just "1" extra comment to show
When looking at a question or answer with comments, I think it would be better to just show that one extra comment if the threshold is "Show 1 more comment".
In other words, if there are 6 comments, ...
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When editing an answer, the OP highlight on comments changes users when comments are expanded
When using the full page editor (like someone without editing privileges), I noticed that the highlight to show who is the "original poster" on comments will swap between the answer OP and ...
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Can't mark custom comment flag as helpful after the comment has been deleted automatically
What happened:
A user voted to close a question as duplicate, generating an automatic comment "Does this answer your question?"
Another user flagged that question with a custom comment flag
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Notify me for ping from a comment moved to chat
Last evening, I commented on this answer. I then closed the tab and went to bed.
At an unknown time, someone responded, pinging me with @Douglas - an exact name match.
This morning, comments on that ...
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