Questions tagged [comments]
For all questions that are primarily about comments - both on mainsite and on Meta. (If a more relevant/appropriate tag exists, it may be used alongside or instead of this one.)
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Why does it require reputation to upvote comments and answers?
I guess it could help with stopping bots from bombing comments with upvotes and such, but it's the only platform I've ever seen that behaves like this.
I created an account a while ago to show ...
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I need 50 reputation to post a comment, how can I gain reputation without commenting?
Honestly I think the title says it all, but I'm happy to elaborate where needed.
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Why do I need reputation to comment?
This kind of confuses me. In order to reply to a post/answer/thread, a new user, need not do anything other then create and account. However, if someone comments to that post, the new user must have ...
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Why was a comment about etymology removed?
This question about the origin of the name Yan-C-Bin has so far attracted only one answer. That answer makes the claim that all of the names of the Princes of Elemental Evil were made up "...
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Should we turn on MathJax in comments?
We have MathJax turned on for posts, but not comments. We do get some math-heavy posts from time to time, which is why we have MathJax in posts, but we don't have it turned on for comments like they ...
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Is there a way I can make "Let us continue this discussion in chat" happen sooner?
I understand that I can simply ask that a discussion in comments be moved to chat, and then go to chat, but it looks like the automatic prompt does a lot more (room creation, tagging, title, inviting, ...
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Community♦ shouldn't be asking people to show "working code" on RPG.SE
I've just discovered a comment from the Community bot under an answer that says the following:
Please add further details to expand on your answer, such as working code or documentation citations. – ...
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Can a new user answer to comments under their own question?
As far as I know you need at least 50 reputation to posts comments on SE. Is it true for commenting your own questions? I thought it was, until I saw a comment to a new user's question:
ask us here ...
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Why do my answers and comments keep getting shut down because I say "thank you"?
Every time I post an answer to my question or someone makes a small suggestion I respond and then I say something along the lines of "Thanks" or "Thank you". This ends up in my ...
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What should comments be used for?
I was in the process of drafting a minor frame challenge in a comment, and found myself thinking 'is this an appropriate use of comments?'
I hit up the meta hoping to find some general guidance on how ...
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What can we do as a community to take flagging obsolete comments more seriously?
Whenever I use my privilege to use the tool page to look at the recent activity of the last thirty days, I see it filled with questions and answers with more than ten comments. When looking at an ...
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Dealing with More Comments After Movements to Chat as a User
This isn't a huge issue, (and may be a duplicate, but I didn't see another like it), but on a recent question there was quite a bit of discussion on a pair of answers which was ultimately moved to ...
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Why were my comments deleted?
I recently commented on this answer. I wanted to share how I think the answer can be improved, but I evidently did something wrong. Since there is no deletion notice, I have to ask here: What did I do ...
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How do we deal with clarification comments on questions from deleted users?
How do we deal with clarification comments on questions from deleted users?
While How to avoid killing player characters due to a single (un)lucky roll? prompted this question, this is not about the ...
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What are the criteria for a comment being auto-deleted when you flag it as "no longer needed"?
I've noticed (and have done so today, in fact) that when I flag certain comments as No Longer Needed, they are auto-deleted right there and then, rather than requiring a moderator to delete them ...
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