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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Reviewers should be able to communicate with each other about a review task
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Reviewers of a post should be able to comment on the task in a separate comment section visible to everyone but only actionable by the reviewers, 10k users and moderators.
Communication between ...
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Notifications not being marked as read [duplicate]
I see this has been asked historically a few times over the years, but this is a new behavior for me since about the past couple of weeks or months or so.
I get comment notifications, and when I click ...
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How can you view the most upvoted comments on your posts (answers and questions)?
Is there a way to view the most upvoted comments from any of my answers or questions on Stack Overflow?
There are two similar questions/answers:
Search for my most upvoted comments and
Can I view a ...
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Multiple answers to the same question doesn't clear in inbox count [duplicate]
I just verified that it doesn't work.
I tried to answer a question on SO. The OP put 2 comments under my answer, which showed "2" in the "Recent inbox messages".
When I click the ...
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Comment author's username shifts downward (compared to the rest of the line) on narrow screens
On narrow screens (e.g., Android Chrome), the username of a comment author is displayed shifted downward in the comment section (especially for users with the "Staff" and "Mod" ...
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What are the limits with edits to questions?
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I understand the basic idea of the question editing functions, both the person asking and the person reading or answering's perspective. From my understanding:
Person asking do edits because:
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Reduce whitespace between short posts and their comment section [duplicate]
For ♦ moderators, the vote section contains some additional links (to the flag history, and to show deleted comments). For short answers like this one, this causes unnecessary whitespace between the ...
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I was notified of and viewed a comment, but the notification disappeared from my global inbox, and it isn't in the site's comment responses list [duplicate]
I commented on Session cookies seem to get lost and then, later while on another site, I was notified about Aaron Bertrand's comment reply. After responding several minutes later and, because I ...
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Automatically mark notification read when I view the comment
I'm viewing a question, and someone posts a comment that notifies me.
I click on the "Show N more comments" message to show all the new comments, so I see the comment mentioned in the ...
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Has a mandatory comment for the vote system ever been trialled?
I have seen discussions of a mandatory comment system for downvotes discussed both on and off Stack Exchange sites.
Take for example this community wiki discussion. The accepted answers raises some ...
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Make short "saved my <time>" comments single-flag-deletable
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The vast majority of short-length comments containing the substring "save" and certain units of time (hour, day, week, life) are useless (see "When shouldn't I comment" and ...
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Is it helpful to have a doubt indicator on comments? [closed]
My current research topic is automated doubt identification on Stack Overflow comments under answer posts using machine learning models, where doubt raised in comments refers to having critiques about ...
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Comments on migrated questions still show up in my site-specific "all actions" tab, even after the comment is deleted at the migration target
I understand that I lose connection with a comment when it is migrated to a site at which I am not a member.
However, I also notice that even where that comment is deleted at the target site, the ...
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Some questions about search [closed]
I want to search questions answered by me and some another user. How can I do this? I don't see an "and" operator.
Is there a way to search through comments (answers under which there is ...
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When editing an answer, the OP highlight on comments changes users when comments are expanded
When using the full page editor (like someone without editing privileges), I noticed that the highlight to show who is the "original poster" on comments will swap between the answer OP and ...
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