Questions tagged [answers-as-comments]
For issues related to comments that should have been answers
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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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Is it okay to upvote answers posted in comments?
I recently received an answer to one of my questions posted as a comment. I upvoted the comment and suggested that the commenter post it as an answer. Was it appropriate to upvote the comment? The ...
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A comment is better than my answer - should I remove the answer?
I answered a question, and a user later added a correct comment that would actually make a better answer than mine. Should I remove my answer?
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Why can't I mark my question as answered on Stack Overflow?
I understand from reading several other questions how marking a question as answered should look - i.e. simply hitting the checkmark next to the best answer. I also understand, from reading, that ...
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An Effective Solution To The [answer-in/as-comment] Conundrum [closed]
How often don't we follow a question, believing that we have the definitive solution, only to find that someone has posted the gist thereof in a comment?
Under those circumstances, I tend to feel ...
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What next if a user got the answer by my comments?
A user has posted a question on Stack Overflow (but it could have been any Stack Exchange site) and I have added some comments. The user has got the answer through my comments. What next – the ...
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Different standards of conduct on different Stack Exchange sites? [closed]
I want to know clearly, if diversity in the working standard of good and bad conduct across different sites should be flexibly allowed or if we should have the same standard of defining good and bad ...
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What is the etiquette on voting for an answer which is a copy of another user's comment on the same question?
Today I asked this question and one user (I'll call them UserA for differentiation) in the comments helped me get through my issue and gave me the answer to fix my issue, but it was left as a comment. ...
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How to: Post Comment, not Answer [duplicate]
I'm new to Stack Exchange.
I've noticed time and time again, questions get little "clarification requests" in a shaded blue directly beneath. These comments are clearly not posted answers, but I don'...
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What to do with a question that has only received comments [duplicate]
I have recently made a post on one of the other groups that I follow. I received a bunch of comments, and a few that actually solved my problem, but no answer to close off the question.
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What ...
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Old guy can't figure out how to approve answer [duplicate]
I posted my first question to Stack Overflow and received two replies. I clicked on the link in the provided e-mail and the question, and two responses, were shown.
I decided to accept one of the ...
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Please post your answers as answers, not comments
This is a public request to all Meta Stack Exchange users. There's a certain behaviour pattern that's... not great, but common, and this is basically a request to do this differently. More ...
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Flag questions where OP says they solved it themselves in comments
I have seen a lot of questions ending up with the OP writing a comment like
fixed!
solved it by doing x or y
forget it
found it out myself
..And so on. I have a phrase to this, when I meet it: "You ...
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Is it possible to transfer ownership of an answer? [duplicate]
I often get the result of my questions via a couple of comments (because the other person is too humble to write it as answer?).
In some cases, several comments together make a worthy answer. Thus, ...
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Can I copy content from third party sources into my SO answer?
In this post @MitchWheat commented with a link to his blog, exposing some useful content to the OP.
I thought that this content would make a good answer and no answer with that content seemed to be ...
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