Questions tagged [comments]
Use for questions regarding the scope and proper use of the comment section, the comment section etiquette, or technical questions specifically concerning the comment function.
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Where is the disappearing comment/activity?
In the comments to this answer, @MC68020 addresses a comment to @ilkkachu, thanking them for something. Yet I do not see a comment by @ilkkachu nor any activity for them. There must have been ...
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Can moderated comments be recovered?
I remember some of the comments following post How can I sort the lines in this text file? seem helpful about usage of sort and about sorting algorithm. Now they are gone. Can they be recovered? ...
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The comment with a link to an example removed (by the moderator, I assume)
I commented on I can run playbook on user but not on crontab
My comment: "See Run Ansible playbooks in cron
The potential answer to the question is very complex and is out of scope here. I was ...
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When does the "It's no longer needed" flag become an immediate action?
I have noticed that under certain circumstances the "It's no longer needed" flag acts immediately on comments and they are straightaway deleted. Yet at other times this is recorded as having ...
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Has it ever been officially stated that question authors shouldn't answer to requests for clarification in the comments?
I recently asked a question author to add information from answers (posted as comments) to "request for clarification"-type comments also into the original question.
The negative feedback ...
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Why was I notified on comments where I was not mentioned?
I commented twice on this Question : Text disappearing and reappearing
Twice, the OP responded to my comments, but did not put in "@Prem", which would generally not have notified me.
Still, ...
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Why is the reputation required to answer a question enormously high at 50?
I appreciate the level of professionalism here, but why is the reputation required to answer a question enormously high at 50 ?
I am a professionally experienced expert and because of the threshold to ...
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Was my behavior correct in this situation?
I'm opening this post in reference to this question: Access ext4 disk that lost superblock and its backups
The only person who answered seem to be a a highly regarded member of this community, not ...
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Is a deleted comment received by the tagged user?
Sometimes I delete a comment tagging a user, and for some reason or other, I delete the comment seconds or minutes after.
Does the recipient receive the notification and can see (at least part of) the ...
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Unfriendly or unkind flag rejects stick even after flagged comments are deleted
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/606142/22653 contained some unnecessarily unkind responses which I flagged as unkind. One was a blatantly rude response to a legitimate query that an acronym be ...
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Is it OK to debate in comments?
I asked a question about Linux's unstable API yesterday. Two users Artem S. Tashkinov and Philip Couling answered that question. Artem S. Tashkinov answered with just a link. After some time that ...
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1 Implement: Zero Comments
This site has serious issues, core issues. Some of them could be solved. I wonder if the community is developed enough to correctly deal with them.
As comments have become a hold place for (permanent) ...
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2 Implement: Remove your own content
This site has serious issues, core issues. Some of them could be solved. I wonder if the community is developed enough to correctly deal with them.
The second issue is that we should have a rule like:
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Why is commenting restricted to 50 rep? [duplicate]
Why is it allowed to answer a questions, but for comments 50 reputation is needed. Isn't an answer much higher weighted than a comment, where you can point out something to the questioner without ...
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When to "Comment", and when to "Answer"?
I am trying to contribute effectively to the community, but I am not clear on when to Comment and when to Answer a question?
I see many 'answers' in comments and I am not sure why they chose not to ...
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