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"comments are ephemeral" - Everyone on SE and ephemeral means... e·phem·er·al [ih-fem-er-uhl] adjective lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory So, the facts... … no longer necessary (If comments are really ephemeral, shouldn't these clean themselves up by the definition of ephemeral?) …

Meanwhile, what should be done with either: informative comments if comments are indeed ephemeral and can be deleted at will by any mod? … tl;dr: are comments ephemeral or not and if they are what steps needs to be done to protect informative comments? …

out in comments, please move it to an answer. … If we're reiterating that comments are ephemeral (and they are), we have to caution against leaving good information in them that needs to last, too ... we'd be in a much better place. …

Look, I know comments are ephemeral and all that, but still… could I have a badge for this, please?! As Yakk suggests: "Nice Post-It!" …

Comments are meant to be ephemeral and short-lived, and this answer in FAQ (no downvotes) lead me to believe it is OK to edit information into the post. …

In the past I have usually just left those as comments, so as not to be taking credit for someone else's ideas. … But today I got to thinking that comments are sometimes cleaned up and deleted, and in general, we're supposed to think of them as ephemeral things without the staying power of real answers. …

Particularly in comments, which are meant to be lightweight and ephemeral. … . – Jeff Atwood♦ Feb 12 '10 at 21:43 If comments are lightweight, why add more features to support it? No, I am not against oneboxing comments. …

By making it explicitly clear that comments are ephemeral and not permanent, and then actually enforcing that automatically, it would help with the following: The complaints of comments being deleted … A corollary to this is some kind of better notification that comments are ephemeral, perhaps by extending the add a comment text to add a X-day comment. …

The usual and customary response is to remind the community member that comments are second-class citizens, subject to removal at any time for basically any reason; comments are ephemeral and should be … I'd like to suggest two possibilities for making comments more noticeably unimportant. Make the font size of comments smaller. …

Comments are short-lived, and (relatively) easy to delete. … Questions aren't supposed to be ephemeral, but they can certainly be deleted when their utility is done, if that's the "right" way to do it. …

With respect to this meta post on SO, Are answers which drip feed information in subsequent comments acceptable? … In response to Nicol's answer below, given the ephemeral nature of comments, the comment[s] would not necessarily need to hang around for long. …

For reference, the documentation I read when I earned the ‘comment anywhere’ privilege says: What are comments? Comments are temporary "Post-It" notes left on a question or answer. … I understand why I can’t delete all my answers and questions on a whim, but it is absolutely ridiculous to have moderators saying “comments are ephemeral and we will delete whichever ones we deem appropriate …

Terms commonly used to describe comments are "temporary", "ephemeral", "throwaway" and the like. Why, then, can regular users delete questions and answers but not comments*? … To make this a concrete proposal: can we give trusted users*** some ability to delete comments? …

.." come on the point of comments is to make a comment. … However, as comments are rarely referred to an the main sites (and should be ephemeral anyway), this should mainly affect Meta, where most users either are aware of this anyway and can be informed via …

Right off the bat I'm going to make it clear that I know full well that comments are ephemeral, transient, and <third-word-here>. … 1 In hindsight, I shouldn't have added that final line as it was purely out of frustration due to the fact that recently I've been seeing comments disappear and either the context around them were left …