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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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How to comment on a question on another Stack Exchange site I newly joined? [duplicate]
I'm new to the area this question was posted in, and I don't have a "correct" answer to hand, but I want to get them a clue as to why the question is not perhaps the right rabbithole, and ...
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Should I upvote complimentary comments on my answer?
I'm a frequent reader/lurker but an infrequent contributer on several SE sites. Occasionally I craft an answer to a question which is better-received than usual, and one or two kind users add a ...
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Has my comment been downvoted? [duplicate]
Other related questions such as Allow downvoting comments (status-declined) and Why can't I downvote comments?, plus the fact I actually cannot downvote a comment make me think downvoting a comment is ...
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Why are votes on comments not shown in the "votes" tab of one's profile?
People can vote on comments, same as on posts. The "votes" tab of a user profile shows upvotes, downvotes, close votes, delete votes, and some others, but doesn't include comment votes. Why is this?
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How to search score of comments
Is there any where that give me the list of my comment sorted by its score descending or not sorted and just shows the score of that?
I think this result will guide me to write better comments in ...
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Why can't we downvote comments? [duplicate]
Try it yourself. You can't downvote comments. Why? I'm really frustrated when I see tons of crappy comments. They meet the minimum requirement -- no insult, no cursing, just without quality. Not ...
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How do I demonstrate disagreement for user actions that I can't downvote on?
What's the preferred mechanism to demonstrate disagreement with user actions that aren't questions or answers on the main site?
I often see newbie questions handled downright hostilely by (presumably)...
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Is it ok to upvote comments/answers that aren't useful?
Take a look at this answer. Personally, I do upvote similar comments/answers that have some sense of humor from time-to-time, but is it fine?
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Comment upvotes not carried over when converting answer to comment [duplicate]
I know it's already been covered that Answer upvotes are not the same as Comment upvotes, but suppose the following situation occurs:
Useful answer that should have been a comment
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What is the benefit of useful comment votes? [duplicate]
What is the benefit of getting a certain number of upvotes on comments? The tooltip says it means that the comment is "useful", but how is someone rewarded for posting useful comments?
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Is the same variable used to keep track of comment up-votes on Meta and SO?
As in, if I run out of comment up-votes, CUVs, on meta, will I also run out of CUVs on SO? I don't see why this would be the case, as question/answer vote counts are not shared between Meta and SO; ...
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What is the point of upvoted comments [duplicate]
Is there any benefit of your comments being upvoted because I have a few and nothing is happening?
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New Badge Proposal: "Dignified" (Gold)
I would like to propose a badge that rewards folk who have written question comments that have more upticks than answers have upvotes; e.g. see @HamZa in
java split regex - any combination of ...
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View a user's list of comments sorted by score?
On a user page it's easy to view a list of that user's questions and answers sorted by score. You can also see a list of a user's comments sorted by date under "activity, comments". I was curious to ...
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