Questions tagged [comments]
Comments are small addendum to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting, and second-class citizens.
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Should the AI policy explicitly ban recommendations to use GenAI?
I recently asked this meta question about recommending ChatGPT for fixing typos. The consensus was a very clear "recommending ChatGPT for typos is a bad idea."
However, in this main question,...
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Just today, every edit comment I try to make is "reserved for system use" [duplicate]
I'm trying to submit a basic edit, but no matter what I type, the website says "Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment."
I've never had problems with edit ...
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When is it appropriate to comment saying that coding challenges are a poor learning strategy, and to suggest a different strategy?
Very often when I come across a question post that has any sort of connection to a coding challenge site such as leetcode, hackerrank, etc., such as being about a problem on that site, or even if the ...
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Should I comment possible solutions in SG when the question can't be published yet
Should I comment some possible solutions in SG when the question is not yet complete (such as not including a minimal reproducible example)?
If I comment, my answer may be lost after the question is ...
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Reduce [Questions with no answers] [duplicate]
At this moment there are 3,205,054 questions with no answers
I'm sure half or more of these questions have been answered in the comments
While there is no way to force OP to answer by themself,
I'd ...
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Upvote on comments is disabled when you've already voted on the comments in Staging Ground [duplicate]
When you upvote a comment in the staging ground, the initial behaviour is the same as that on the main site; the icon goes from being a one colour to orange:
If you do not refresh the page, you can, ...
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Would it be okay to ask why the question is being downvoted, in the comments of the question? [duplicate]
Here's a question I saw earlier today.
NodeJS difference between require() and --require
The answer to the question is clear to me, and seems obvious, but I could understand why someone would ask it. ...
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What is the proper way to gain reputation so that I can comment on posts? [duplicate]
I use Stack Overflow a lot for what I assume are common questions, but every now and then, I'll stumble across an answer that I know is wrong, but it's voted up.
These answers were likely correct when ...
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Should questions in the [faq] tag on Meta have "canonical links"?
I noticed in the revisions of Why is "Can someone help me?" not a useful question? that an attempt was made to add a "canonical link" to the question, apparently intended for ...
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Is commenting on "Review First Questions" broken?
Let me state upfront that - as far as I understand - this has nothing to do with the "Audit" questions.
I've been reviewing some first posts, and have been taking a lot of time trying to ...
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Got notifed of a response to a comment but now I cannot see my comment or the response and there is no history
I recently added a comment regarding this issue How to reject merge request in GitLab? which asked a follow up question looking for clarification on if the feature in question was enabled by default.
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How should I handle comments posted as answers to off-topic questions?
Numerous times I've run across an off-topic question that someone has posted comments on that attempt to answer the question. I understand the desire to help people but such comments should not be ...
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Why is this comment not unfriendly/unkind?
Two days ago I reported this comment as unfriendly/unkind:
Whoever downvoted my question, you really are a weird person. Downvoting with a comment as WHY downvoted makes sense so that I can at least ...
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Don't apply the edit-every-5-second rule when last edit of same comment was rejected
Sometimes I edit a comment in a way which causes the edit to be rejected, e.g. by @-mentioning a second user. I then quickly remove the @ and try to submit the edit again, only to be rebuffed with a ...
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How can I search for comments? [duplicate]
Is it possible to search just for comments?
I tried putting is:comment in the search bar, but it apparently doesn't have any effect—the search still returned questions/answers.
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