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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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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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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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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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I'm repeatedly getting 409 and 500 HTTP responses when trying to edit comments
I'm getting this on SO, MSE, and other network sites.
The 500 error returns the content of the 404 page.
What happened?
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Buttons on Flagged Comments do not work on Moderator Tools Page
I noticed today when reviewing a flagged comment on Arqade's Moderators Tools page (/admin/dashboard), I could not use any of the buttons on the comment itself to perform any action, including:
Flag ...
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"Add a Comment" is broken on <site>/admin/dashboard
The "Add a Comment" link on questions/answers on https://superuser.com/admin/dashboard is no longer working.
Clicking on it jumps to the top of the page. The link behind "Add a Comment&...
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Comment excerpts missing on "All actions" section of user "Activity" tab
All actions used to include an excerpt of comments, but now they're missing. Is this a bug or an intentional change?
If it's intentional, why? I use All actions to follow up on comments I left on new ...
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Flagging comments on mobile is impossible unless you previously switched to desktop view prior to mobile site removal
Do not press "mobile" at the bottom of the page or otherwise try to reproduce this bug! While this flag bug was fixed, there are other subtle bugs with the same root cause. It's very hard to ...
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Pluralization bug when editing a comment: "Too long by 1 characters"
I found a pluralization bug, which I reproduced on Meta Ask Ubuntu and Meta SE (and probably other places, but that is where I tried it). "Too long by 1 characters" is wrong. It should be &...
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Spacing between comment-author link and date-posted link has disappeared
This seems to have come up just now. There's no space between the name and link to the author of a comment, and the date it was posted:
I found this bug here. This is kind of annoying if you want ...
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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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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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Can clicking on a negatively-received post remove the graying-out on both the content *and* the comments?
This post was marked status-completed – and it is, to a degree. But clicking on a post with a score of −3 (or −7) or lower doesn't remove the grayness on the comments underneath the post, only the ...
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Pluralization issue when only one more comment is to be shown: "Show 1 more comments"
Below, the "Show X more comments" link has been capitalized, and a pluralization error has been introduced:
It wasn't like that before (the grammar, I mean), so can we fix it?
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Wrong rate limit message when attempting to flag a comment
When clicking the flag link on a comment, I got the following message (emphasis mine):
You may only attempt to flag this comment every 3 seconds.
However, that's incorrect; it was my first attempt ...
GlorfindelMod
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Why is the auto generated duplicate comment disappearance not consistent?
I have flagged the following two questions as duplicates:
Split list based on element value in Scala [duplicate]
The POST method is not supported for this route. Supported methods: GET, HEAD. - ...
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"Please consider adding a comment" yet the question is locked and therefore unable to be commented on
Basically this is a contradiction:
The popup notice
Please consider adding a comment if you think this post can be improved.
appears after downvoting a locked question
Locked for 24 days. Comments ...
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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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Unable to handle comment flags from the admin dashboard
While handling comments, the admin dashboard bugs out with the following error in the console:
full.en.js?v=38260260cea5:9 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'user' of undefined
at e....
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Can't post a comment which contains -1
I'm trying to post a simple comment; if the comment contains -1, then it errors out, suggesting I'm defending or replying to a downvote. This is to the OP, not a reply to my own Q or A.
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Are moderators no longer able to add comments on deleted posts?
Moderators used to be able to comment on deleted or locked posts. However I've just noticed I am unable to add a comment to a deleted question on Meta Stack Overflow, as the "add comment" link is ...
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The "New Contributor" dialog is masked
The New Contributor dialog is masked from where the comment section ends.
Here are some screenshots just to be more clear:
With no comments:
With one comment:
No masking with more comments:
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Why is double space replaced by single space when enclosed in backticks in comments?
I was trying to put a small line of code in a comment, but I noticed that the multiple spaces in the comment enclosed in backticks(`) were replaced with single ones.
To make it clear, I wrote this as ...
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Some moderator tools related to deleted comments aren't working
Since at least 1 August, the moderator tool “show X deleted comments” leads to a 404 page. For example: on Is the calculation of infinite sums solvable by a computer?, I click “mod” then “show 7 ...
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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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Alignment issue in election - add comment section
There is an alignment issue in the Election - "add comment" UI. The Add Comment button and help link is overlapped with the comment box.
Currently the ongoing election in "The Workplace". The issue ...
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Can't edit a comment without the mouse
If I write a comment, make a typo, submit the comment, and then notice the mistake and want to correct it by editing the comment, I can't do that as a keyboard-only user.
If I try to tab to the "edit"...
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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. ...
GlorfindelMod
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Edit comment yields [object Object] instead of comment text
At some point this afternoon the edit comment functionality was changed and now when you edit a comment you see [object Object] instead of the text. If I click edit here:
I see this:
This is ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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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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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 ...
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Comments no longer indicate whether or not they've been edited
Today, the comment UI received a revamp.
However, as part of that, the indication that a comment had been edited (a pencil icon) seems to have been removed, as well.
This doesn't seem like it's an ...
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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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Comment edit history popup is not fully visible in Firefox
♦ moderators have the ability to see the edit history of comments. However, the popup is badly aligned, so part of the text isn't visible:
Tested on Firefox 58.0.2 on macOS 10.13.3; it doesn't ...
GlorfindelMod
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Automatic comments for moderator and user created chat rooms are still referring to rooms as http rather than https
I became aware today that when a chat room is created by a moderator or user moving comments to chat, the link to the chat room is http:// instead of https://, which means that some attempts to visit ...
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Comments with MathJax not rendered on Firefox ESR
As of today comments do not render MathJax and remaining text. It only flashes the underlying LaTeX, but renders an empty space. Noticed on MSE and MO, for example here one comment now simply reads: "@...
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Comment timestamp is not showing in Firefox ESR
Since a short while ago, I can no longer see timestamps on comments. Is this some new feature, or has something gone wrong with my ad blocker?
For instance, when I visit this post, I see this:
Note: ...
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Comment is shifted to the right
This comment looks shifted to the right now:
But according to the wayback machine the comment used to look normal before:
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Comment deletion requires manual page refresh to disappearing
At least on two sites: Stack Overflow on Russian and Russian Language Stack Exchange if you delete your comment it doesn’t disappear automatically as it was always but need to refresh page manually. ...
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Undeleting comments breaks the layout
As the title says, a mod undeleting a comment adds a second top bar, adds a random second copy of the logo and top buttons in the middle of the page, pushes the comments to the bottom of the page, and ...
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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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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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Moderator's view of comment edits is erroneous?
Being a Mod, I've edited out a typo in other user's comment.
After pressing the pencil icon saying "this comment was edited %d times", I see the following:
From the display, it looks like I did the ...
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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 ...
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My sock is having some layout issues [duplicate]
My sock account tried to add a comment, which it obviously can't since it doesn't have much reputation (yet).
The 'error notification' lacks a nice font and is positioned too far to the right:
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Why do I get "Users without post commenting privilege can't edit auto-generated comments" when trying to edit my non-auto-generated comment?
I posted a comment on an answer to my question, then shortly after wanted to improve the formatting of the comment. I clicked the Edit icon next to the comment, made my changes and then when I tried ...
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Display names of non existent users in comments are a bit too decorated in iOS
Occasionally when a question is migrated, that question has content (comments or answers) from users who still don't have account on the migration target site. On the regular, desktop site, that ...
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Annoying comment bug in review queue
The below bug doesn't always happen, but does most of the time.
Steps to reproduce:
Go to any review queue
Post a comment
Edit the comment
Click Save Edits
Result:
Obviously the red box above is ...
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