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Even comments which were useful but are now outdated should be deleted (preferably by their author but a moderator can do it if necessary). … Never assume comments are going to hang around, they are to ask for clarification, not to congratulate people. …

Notifications apply to the author, users with active bounties, commenters (associated to current non-deleted comments), and editors of the question or answer that you are commenting on—users not in …

Suggesting a new user accepts an answer is reasonable enough if they state that as a result of the answers their problem is solved. I would avoid suggesting it be your answer however (although it is l …

Additionally comments do not have revision histories so there is no way to rectify any confusion should a comment be edited to include information that is discussed later in the thread of comments. … No restriction on editing could also allow a backdoor for spam; post legitimate comments then later edit them as spam with no notifications to the post owner or even worse find comments from other users …

The only issue with this is if your existing comment has already been replied to; in which case you must balance the positive of correcting your comments to the negative of breaking the reply chain. …

Answers in comments Comments are not supposed to contain answers, in any form. … Comments are to ask for clarification or point out a mistake. …

Comments support only some markdown Because comments do not support new lines they also don't support indentation. … Code in comments shouldn't be overused However, significant amounts of code should not be found in comments, since comments are to request clarification/critique to existing posts, not to offer solutions …

It just indicates that the comment is useful and if anyone is just scanning the comments they should read it. … These comments are also shown preferentially if only some of the comments are being shown. It has no other effect (apart from a badge) …

Additionally any @user comments that are known to be superfluous (only 1 other user in conversation who is the poster) will be automatically stripped out The first author of the question or answer …

In this case (where the original commenter is long gone/ignores suggestions to post as a full answer) the best thing to do is to post an answer yourself, using the comment as the basis for your answer …

You can acquire a link to a comment on a question or answer by clicking on the time/date of the comment. For example here is a link to a comment on this question that I have acquired by right clickin …

That said often these highly upvoted comments are useful just on their own and if there are twenty of thirty comments on a post then it can make sense to just see those. … Comments are more likely to be shown if they are newer. …

A "Do it for me" question is one in which a specification or request for work is given as the question, with no (visible) attempt to solve the problem yourself. Questions fitting this description are …

If anything they show you care about the quality of even comments. The only time it would even be an issue is if people appeared to be agreeing to a clearly ridiculous statement. … Comments are supposed to be short lived, if there's anything that needs to have a clear provenance a comment is probably the wrong place for it. …

If the other question appears fully answered but does not answer your question If the existing question appears fully answered but does not answer yours then your question is subtly different. You sho …