Questions tagged [comments]
Comments are small addenda to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting and intended to prompt clarifying edits. Can also be used for comments on the blog posts.
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Styling of comment timestamps becomes similar to usernames when comments are expanded
When clicking the "Show N more comments" on a post the styling of the comment timestamps of other posts on the same page becomes similar to the styling of the comment author's display name.
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Can anyone help me understand why my question keeps getting closed? [closed]
I am long time user of stackexchange, 10+ years. In more recent times, I appear to be met with much more aggressive comments, answers, flags, and the like. I am unsure if others have felt this same ...
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Moderators trying to delete or undelete comments are now prompted to confirm (and canceling does not work)
As a moderator on a site that I moderate, upon clicking the "delete" link on a comment, I am shown a "Really delete this comment?" browser confirmation prompt; regardless of how I ...
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When a moderator upvotes a comment on a site they moderate, the error message "You cannot mark a comment more than once" shows up
I recently upvoted a comment (first time upvoting that specific comment) on my meta site and received an error message stating "You cannot mark a comment more than once." Another mod ...
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The "talkative" user problem
After asking questions and providing answers here for about 10 years, few days ago I have faced with a very irritating problem.
Currently, the subject of my interest is ImageMagick, a command-line ...
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For how long can I edit comment... really?
I have just seen this:
Followed by this (after hitting "Cancel"):
One of these information is in contradiction with another.
What is the exact value of timeframe where I can edit my ...
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Too low baseline with italics in comments
I noticed that some of the italicized words in comments are too low, on at least one site. See I pronounce question as kweshtin. Is my pronunciation wrong? and also the following screenshot:
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Voting for comments from the review queues doesn't work
If you click on the up arrow next to a comment from the review queue, the page scrolls and the voting doesn't work (printscreen is from Stack Overflow in Russian, but I think, the language isn't ...
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Comment @reply name suggestions are missing from review queues
Normally when I type a comment and type @ followed by the first letters of the name of another commenter, there will be an autocomplete suggestion that I can press Tab to accept:
However, I have just ...
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Is there a reason not to enable replacing internal SE URL text on comments with the page linked to? [duplicate]
On Super User, I looked for a Linux proportional font terminal, and found OS X or X11 terminal emulator supporting proportional fonts, in which the accepted answer suggested a Mac port of Emacs, but ...
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If a comment URL is pasted to chat will the message be retained if the underlying comment is deleted?
Let's say I paste a comment URL such as:
https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/100303/what-are-christian-responses-to-graham-oppys-argument-for-atheism-from-naturali#comment284517_100303
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Should I respond to a question where I have worthwhile information to contribute, but no concrete answer?
I saw a question where a person describes their context, to which I have a considerable amount of information that I am certain the user (and similar users like him) will find useful, but none that ...
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Why doesn't the username in mentions not get auto-edited when the original one does? [duplicate]
I used to go by "d4rk4ng31" (um, as you might have already guessed, silly teenage years) which then I changed (long back, but I just noticed this as I am not a very active member anymore). I ...
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Tapping on username while commenting after @ symbol with a high probability leads to invalid system response on touch screen devices
It's very hard to correctly select user name while commenting on mobile devices. Even when tap is marked inside the tooltip with username, as the result system decided that I tapped on the link from ...
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When there are multiple comments on my post, have the notification lead to the oldest
Currently if multiple comments on one of your own posts, you get a single notification, not multiple. What happens is that all comment notifications for the same post are grouped together, only the ...
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