Questions tagged [automatic-comments]
Comments posted automatically on behalf of users after performing certain actions.
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Why was the network-wide close-as-duplicate comment change not announced here?
Since yesterday the automatic comment posted when closing or flagging a post as a duplicate was changed from
Does this answer your question? [question title]
to
This question is similar to: [...
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Move suggested actions in the duplicate autocomment to the close banner
As so eloquently put by Shadow Wizard:
There is already the "official" close banner appearing (for the OP only) on top of the question when there are pending close votes/flags - the ...
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Post duplicate autocomments as the Community user
We have stopped showing to users who voted to close a question*, and yet for duplicates, we still advertise it with a (now brand new and even longer!) autocomment. We should start attributing these ...
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Use a different template for duplicate automatic comments for reposted questions by the same user
It happens every now and then that a user reposts their question - maybe they don't know how to edit, maybe the question was closed and they wanted to dodge the review queue, or maybe they didn't get ...
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Is a new comment format for duplicate votes being tested?
I just cast a couple of duplicate votes on Ask Ubuntu and got this exceedingly verbose comment posted on my behalf:
This question is similar to: ... If you believe it’s different, please edit the ...
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Automatically upvote an existing review queue canned comment instead of duplicating it [duplicate]
I’ve noticed that if multiple users select the same canned comment in the review queues, this results in duplicate comments. This might come across as rude and annoying to the recipient, who will get ...
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Why doesn't the "Does this answer your question?" duplicate link include the user ID number?
It seems automatically generated comments such as this:
Does this answer your question? Ramsey-Turan number
don't include the user's ID number. As I understand, people can earn the "Announcer&...
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Resolving Community user and "share feedback" issues in review queues
On our announcement for our updates to review queue workflows, we got a ton of feedback on the Community user being the one posting comments for users. Here's a quick summary of some of the major ...
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Allow to automatically add the duplicate-suggestion comment, even when out of close votes
This is almost a duplicate of Allow to flag a question for closure without casting a vote if I'm out of close votes in the sense that if that is implemented, then of course it would be best to ...
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Attribute automatic duplicate comments to the Community user
I just read the update to Workflow changes for review queues. There the following is stated:
Reviewers are encouraged to leave comments for the post-author, but now they can also choose from a few ...
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Low-quality answer auto-comments sound a little hard to new users
When reviewing low quality posts, I came across this post and recommended its deletion. The system automatically left a comment saying,
If you have a new question, please ask it by clicking the Ask ...
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Allow low-reputation users to delete comments that were posted on their behalf
I flagged this question on Ask Ubuntu as a duplicate. A comment "Does this answer your question...." was auto-generated. For trying things out, I retracted my flag. Now, I can't delete that ...
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The automatic comment upvote is not retracted when I retract my duplicate close vote
I've been following a duplicate proposal of another user recently, and voted to close the question, but later I changed my mind and retracted the close vote.
What bothered me is that the automatic ...
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Comment lock does not prevent automatic duplicate comments
Question comment locked
Autodupe comment later
Is this intended?
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Now that specific off-topic reasons are no longer displayed in the post, how about an auto-comment with the specific off-topic reason?
Fact 1
A custom off-topic reason generates an auto-comment with the reason for the close vote.
Fact 2
Specific off-topic close reasons are no longer displayed in the post itself, unless you are the ...
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