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Don't let users comment on review audit questions
When reviewing reopen votes, I was given this question as a review audit. I commented, nonsensically, that I didn't understand why the question was closed as primarily-opinion based, as that's what ...
reneMod
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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" ...
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Allow moderators to see which comments are for deleted posts, on admin/users/<user id>/post-comments?state=all
When I look at admin/users/<user id>/post-comments?state=all, I cannot see which comments are for deleted posts.
Could be possible to add a different background for the comments on deleted ...
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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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CarrottStaff
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Inform new users about the option to edit their own post when adding a comment
When reviewing close votes, I regularly encounter questions with the following history:
New users ask a question which is unclear because it is lacking relevant information.
People add comments, ...
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Display comment flag next to vote instead of below to reduce whitespace
On the desktop site, most of the vertical whitespace in one-line comments is to make space for the flag button, which is below the vote button. I find this whitespace to be excessive, especially given ...
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If a comment is deleted while the author is editing it, the edited text will disappear into the void without warning; show a warning in such cases
When editing a comment, if it has been deleted while the comment author is editing it, the edited text will completely disappear into the void without any sort of warning as soon as the user clicks ...
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Show me a message if a comment I'm editing gets deleted [duplicate]
When I'm editing a comment, if the comment gets deleted in the meantime, I'm not notified in any way. This poses a problem because if I try to submit my edit, my edited comment is irretrievably ...
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No way to remove accidental upvote on a comment [duplicate]
I frequently upvote someone's comment only to realise I've fat-fingered it (especially easy to do on a touch phone, but I've also done it with a mouse) and clicked someone else's comment.
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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 ...
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Please change the wording of the comment generated when mods move comment threads to chat
Currently, when a mod moves a comment thread to chat, the system enters a very curt and borderline rude message that seems to be chastising users for doing something wrong instead of attempting to ...
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Allow moderators to more easily undelete comments
Currently, to undelete comments under a post, moderators have to click a floating link that's off to the side, which makes deleted comments appear under the post along with "undelete" buttons next to ...
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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 ...
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Could comments be shown on the edit [question/answer] page?
A lot of Stack Exchange sites treat comments as "suggested improvements" for questions and answers they're posted on, and users/mods will often suggest incorporating content from comments into the ...
GlorfindelMod
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Notify commenters of replies from newbie OPs
As discussed repeatedly already, the following scenario happens a thousand times every day on Stack Overflow:
Newbie OP asks question
User posts comment asking for clarification
Newbie OP posts ...
reneMod
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Advanced Syntax Ideas
The one useful thing I was ever taught in HCI was always give advanced users "hidden" short cuts and features.
Things a noob is not interested in but a power user can easily take advantage ...
GlorfindelMod
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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 ...
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Expose the edit history of moderator-edited comments to other moderators
I was recently notified that another moderator on the site had suspended a specific user. I followed this to the source, but found some edited comments. My colleague had removed the offending parts ...
GlorfindelMod
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Formal adoption of Pro-forma comments script into SE engine proper
My Pro-forma comments script has now gained quite a following (and it - allegedly - just got bust by upgrading to jQuery 1.7.1). This is a personal request to the team to consider adopting it.
Not ...
CommunityBot
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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 ...
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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.
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GlorfindelMod
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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 ...
CommunityBot
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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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Mention comment voting limits in Help Center (on vote up privilege page)
Some day before I was searching for suggestions I have in mind here on Meta and voting on existing posts, mostly on comments. By the end of the day I've got a message:
Daily vote limit reached; vote ...
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Allow moderators to flag comments normally
When a moderator flags a comment, the comment is instantly deleted. For a moderator, the only difference between using the “flag” and the “delete” button is that using the “flag” button asks for a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Improvements for the new add comment feature in the Android app
The new commenting feature (0.1.28) is pretty awesome. I've a couple issues though:
It only works on answers, not on questions.
When you tap the "add comment" button, the keyboard and the ...
CommunityBot
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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 ...
CommunityBot
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Allow for Comment Reply to Usernames With Less Than Three Characters in First Word
I know this is somewhat of a rare request/edge case, but this is becoming really annoying. In the faq, which I've linked to below, you state that for the comment reply system to work,
There must ...
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List of Comments on User Tab
I suggested this on UserVoice, but with the discontinuation of that site wanted to move the suggestion and discussion here.
A list of all comments on the User Tab would be useful. Recent comments are ...
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Make it possible to retract comment flags
I misread the content of a comment, and flagged it. Then I realized that the comment wasn't what I had initially thought. Would it be possible to have the ability to retract comment flags, just like ...
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Tooltip still showing for "comments disabled" text on deleted/locked posts
Recently when we can't post new comment, text describing it was added which is good and dandy.
However, the tooltip is still there lurking in the darkness awaiting mouse hover:
Can it please be ...
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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 ...
CommunityBot
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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 ...
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Add direct link to comment in the moderator flag queue
Whenever a comment is flagged, there are a couple of links in the ♦ moderator flag queue:
is a link to the flag queue (i.e. the page you're already on); it points to this specific comment/flag. ...
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Marking comments as 'addressed by edit' to reduce noise
I'm fairly responsive to comments left on my answers. This often means updating an answer to incorporate new information or questions that have been added in the comments (or edits to the original ...
reneMod
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A little less AJAX?
Is all of this k3wl AJAX really needed? What really gets me is comments. Surely, surely, surely, the comment text is small and the show comments could just unhide the HTML, or insert the text from an ...
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Can we improve the UI when a comment "is not eligible for flagging or voting"? [duplicate]
I came across an unusual question on Meta today: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/179165/should-stackoverflow-run-a-programmers-matrimonial-service-to-prevent-marriage
I went to vote up some ...
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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. ...
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Undo your upvote to comments [duplicate]
Can't undo upvote on comments. The comments area understandably has a small interface and I accidentally upvoted the wrong comment. Apparently they cannot be un-upvoted.
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Disable chat migration notification if one of the users has insufficient rep?
Simple request, really.
Can we add a detection for the
Please avoid extended discussions in
comments. Would you like to
automatically move this discussion to
chat?
prompt, so that if one of ...
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Treat comments on deleted posts from moderating users like comments from diamond moderators
Comments on deleted posts don't reliably notify the owner of the deleted post about their existence, depending on the exact timing the post owner might never be informed about that comment. There is ...
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Magic link new [about] pages in comments
We already have the ability to have certain links auto-expand in comments as per Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments.
Can the new about pages also be added using the [about] format ...
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"Comment edited" icon is too prominent
I noticed this yesterday:
The "this comment was edited" pencil icon became fully black, which makes it very prominent and draws too much attention to it, in my opinion.
I'm pretty sure it used ...
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Reply to comment feature request
Maybe I'm creating a dupe here, but here goes...
Similar questions:
Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don’t own them)
and
Let’s ...
GlorfindelMod
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Add a "move comments to chat" link in the "mod" menu, instead of only in the flag dashboard
Currently, the only way to migrate comments to chat is if a "too many comments" autoflag is raised on the post, in which case there's a "move to chat" button in the flag dashboard.
Could this be ...
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Why can you type new lines in comments if they are never rendered?
In the comment box, you can type new lines, but they are never rendered. This can trick people into thinking that they can separate text into paragraphs, when this is not possible.
I think that when ...
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Drop "not constructive", combine "noisy", reword "rude" and "other" comment flags
The problem
Comments are terrible; no one agrees on what they're for, or how long they should be kept. Comment flags are equally terrible, because if no one's on the same page as far as what should be ...
CommunityBot
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Let moderators see the original, unedited version of comments
My question is related to Do moderators see the previous versions of edited comments? and Moderators should see the post as I flagged it, not the edited version. The accepted answer on the latter ...
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