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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why did all the comments under my answer disappear? [closed]
I have an answer to one of the questions (link) and many comments were there. Now every comment disappeared while the comments under the other responses are still there.
What might have happened? Is ...
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Are sock puppet comment and Meta votes retracted?
A user used sock puppets to self-upvote, self-bounty, and self-accept answers they'd ask questions on. It is unknown whether this included voting on Meta posts or on comments.
Only one sock was ...
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Search for comments on posts with a certain tag based on a keyword
I am trying to get the comments on posts with a specific tag which include a phrase or a keyword of interest using SEDE. Here's my first attempt: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/...
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The "Delete" button on comments now always shows instead of only on hover; is this an intentional change?
I've noticed that the "Delete" button on my own comments now always shows, instead of being shown only when I mouse over the comment as before.
I personally like the change, as it makes it ...
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Can't comment because of a bug
Wherever I click Add a comment on Stack Exchange sites, even on my own questions, the screen gets like this:
without any possibility to comment. How can I fix it?
I'm using Chrome version 111.0.5563....
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When were comments first available on Stack Exchange?
I am curious about when comments first became available on Stack Exchange (or whatever the site was when the development occurred). I ask this because, in the Database schema documentation for the ...
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Comment markdown formatting doesn't render correctly when immediately followed by a forward slash
Consider either of the following Markdown formatting examples:
a**b**/c
a*b*/c
They will (as expected) render as ab/c and ab/c, respectively, in posts. However, in comments, it does not work for some ...
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Notifications not being marked as read [duplicate]
I see this has been asked historically a few times over the years, but this is a new behavior for me since about the past couple of weeks or months or so.
I get comment notifications, and when I click ...
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How can you view the most upvoted comments on your posts (answers and questions)?
Is there a way to view the most upvoted comments from any of my answers or questions on Stack Overflow?
There are two similar questions/answers:
Search for my most upvoted comments and
Can I view a ...
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Multiple answers to the same question doesn't clear in inbox count [duplicate]
I just verified that it doesn't work.
I tried to answer a question on SO. The OP put 2 comments under my answer, which showed "2" in the "Recent inbox messages".
When I click the ...
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I was notified of and viewed a comment, but the notification disappeared from my global inbox, and it isn't in the site's comment responses list [duplicate]
I commented on Session cookies seem to get lost and then, later while on another site, I was notified about Aaron Bertrand's comment reply. After responding several minutes later and, because I ...
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Some questions about search [closed]
I want to search questions answered by me and some another user. How can I do this? I don't see an "and" operator.
Is there a way to search through comments (answers under which there is ...
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Why isn't the submit event received when submitting a comment via pressing the enter key when the listener uses addEventListener and not onsubmit?
I'm writing a userscript and want to attach an event listener to run when a comment is submitted. I was surprised that I couldn't receive the submit event when the form is submitted via pressing the ...
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Is it possible to search comments like we can search chat messages? [duplicate]
In chat.stackexchange.com we can search all chat messages filtered by keywords, user id, and room id. The search result has unique URL to a chat message.
Given that there is also a unique URL for a ...
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Is there some difference between typing a username and using the auto-complete?
When typing (or editing) a comment, after typing @ and the first letter of a username, we're offered the choice of usernames that were in the conversation and can input them into typing the whole ...
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Why are tooltips for bare links to SE posts (in comments) not capitalized despite the actual posts being capitalized?
When posting links to SE posts in comments, where links are not converted to links with titles, the tooltips for those links are not capitalized.
For example, this is a bare link with an uncapitalized ...
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Stack Overflow data dump: Discrepancy of PostIDs in Posts.xml and Comments.xml
I am aggregating the URLs that have been shared on SO, and linking them back to the corresponding tags in the Question post.
Along the way, I noticed a subset of ~100 PostIds that have URLs in the ...
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What makes a comment substantive enough to deactivate "one-flag deletion" due to "certain keywords"?
Per How do comments work?
Comments containing certain keywords can be deleted with a single flag.
It is thought "thanks" is one of them.
Which for a second was alarming; a single flag can ...
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Can I award a bounty to a comment owner?
I've seen the following in the Article about bounties under "How is a bounty awarded?":
The bounty period lasts 7 days. Bounties must have a minimum duration of at least 1 day. After the ...
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When a question is migrated to another site, are askers/answers who aren't members of the target site notified of later comments/answers?
I came across a question that had recently been migrated from another site, after which an experienced user added a standard asking-for-more-information comment. But I then noticed that the question's ...
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Can you @ping a user after they have deleted their last comment? [duplicate]
You can use @<user> to ping/notify a user that has commented previously. But if they have deleted their last comment do they still receive notifications if another user @-pings them in the same ...
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What's the reasoning behind the availability of edit history for a message in chat but not in posts (for regular user)?
In chat we (as a regular user) can see a complete history of edits to a message, even made a few seconds apart.
But for a regular user (non-mod/staff) there is no history of edits to a comment in ...
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How should I reply to a comment which is a request for code?
In a comments discussion I was asked in a comment to share my code. Unfortunately the code exceeds the number of characters allowed in the comment. I'm not a question owner nor the answer.
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Is flagging a bunch of "thanks" comments OK?
I made a SEDE query to find all the comments that contained thank, the @ character, weren't saying yes/no to something, and were less than 20 characters. The query is here. It returned over 1400 ...
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"add comment" & "show more comment" no longer working on android tablet with firefox [duplicate]
Since a couple of days I'm no longer able to view more than 5 comments nor to add one myself. This happens on two different up to date android tablets, one with an older firefox (the last one ...
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How do I answer a comment that was made to a deleted question? [duplicate]
A question I posted a while ago was closed because it "needs details or clarity", and it is now deleted. While I think the question is clear, a user posted the comment "Could you be a ...
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Start a chat with OP before reaching the 10+ comment mark
I was trying to solve someone's question and due to a language gap, they were unable to describe it properly. I know that the "let's continue this on the chat" message and link auto adds to ...
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Is it possible to manually update one's display name on comments/answers/etc. to avoid deadnaming? [duplicate]
Two months ago there was a question asking about whether it would be possible to implement some semi-automated tool for changing one's username in past comments, answers bodies, etc.
I've recently ...
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How should I cite other users' text in comments, since blockquotes don't compile as they would in the question-field?
I have posted a question on CS SE and below this kind user's answer I have posted a comment where I am trying to cite their text to refer to it using the > character (in a blockquote) like so:
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Trying to comment on a particular question on the full site crashes Android Chrome
I wanted to add a comment to this History SE question.
When I hit "add a comment", Chrome crashes. You hit "add a comment " below the question, the comment edit box appears for a ...
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The canned comments left by the Community user are less than helpful, in some cases [duplicate]
I've seen a few examples:
A comment on a post about licensing on Software Engineering indicating that the post needs clarification. The post is clear enough to know that it is off-topic. Editing for ...
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Misclick with duplicate flag, now unable to delete automatic comment as I never had the rep to comment in the first place -- is this intended? [duplicate]
On this question, I accidentally marked it as a duplicate of the wrong link. I retracted the flag, no harm done. But my comment remains and I cannot delete it, and I figure this is because I don't ...
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Best practices and advice how to shorten links to comments when including them in other comments? Can I safely drop the noredirect=1?
When adding links to comments within other comments I often want to shorten them so that I can add fit more plain text within the character limit.
I usually start by removing the words of the title ...
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My comment was moved to a chat room, and it is not attributed to my site-specific username [duplicate]
On one of the StackExchange sites, I have changed my display name from pacoverflow to something else.
Recently there was a question on that site in which a lot of people left comments, including me. I ...
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What should one do if they are being targeted by a single individual? [duplicate]
For the past few months, every one of my questions (total of eight) have been downvoted almost immediately after posting. If they are poorly written questions or even if asking a question for ...
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Does Cyrillic copy/pasted from a Wikipedia definition kill proper display of hyperlinks in comments, but not in posts?
I tried to quote Wikipedia in a comment:
For space-word-deficient folks like myself Zarya (Russian: Заря́, lit. 'Dawn'[b]), also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB (from the Russian: "...
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Do moderators have super-ping also in comments/posts?
Recently I have noticed for the first time a comment by a moderator which contained @@username. Previously I have seen something similar in chat - I know that the mods have superping in chat - the ...
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Most upvoted comments across Stack Exchange (Cross site query)
I was interested in finding out the most upvoted comments per user across the entire Stack Exchange network (cross-site query).
I found this query, which works very well, but only for one site at a ...
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Should I reply to a comment that is incorrect?
I recently encountered a comment from a question's OP that looked like this:
I really don't like having my posts edited but I let it go this time because I know my post was poorly written. @Nai45, ...
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Question is available, but the answer and its comments are not visible [closed]
Yesterday I asked a question and someone had replied as comments. More than 10 or 11 comments are shared with me and the one who helped me to solve my question. But today I am not able to view the ...
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Is there anyway to see the original name of someone commenting before they changed it?
Take the accepted answer on this thread:
OOP vs Functional Programming vs Procedural
If you look at the comments, someone @'s techzilla. But who is techzilla? No one in this conversation is named ...
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Wrong in-line code formatting [duplicate]
I have a problem with in-line code formatting here: Problems with cookies and TortoiseSVN
I want to make two different in line code in single comment. What I'm doing wrong?
This is how it looks ...
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