Questions tagged [comments]
Thoughts/ideas left on posts. Comments require at least 50 reputation to utilize. They are meant to be constructive towards the post, and should not be used for chatting purposes.
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Can we have spoiler markdown for comments?
Puzzling.SE has spoiler markdown in comments. According to that post, it's still in a testing phase (maybe?), but it still seems pretty useful.
Can we have spoiler markdown for comments?
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Theme idea was converted to comment?
Right now I made an answer for theme idea
but it was automatically converted to a comment. I swear this time I formatted my answer correctly.
Can someone please explain why it happend?
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How to reply to another person on this site/ tag them
I wanted to respond to someone’s answer but don’t know how to tag them in my question! Any help?
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Is leetspeak allowed in comments?
Let's talk about leetspeaking!
The definition of leetspeak:
An informal language or code used on the internet, in which standard letters are often replaced by numerals or special characters that ...
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Was my comment removed?
Either I'm losing my mind, and I didn't post a comment on this question about Athletics in Cyberpunk, or someone deleted it?
IIRC it was just a light-hearted jab at game design - why was it deleted?
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How should we respond to users "reprimanding" other users in comments?
I recently stumbled across this comment:
Aren't you the one who tried posting a answer to my "should I pick doom shroom or cherry bomb" question and got your response deleted? Don't let it ...
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Why was this comment removed?
Should one use first or third person terminology when discussing one's character?
Seems like such a mundane thing but I'm mostly curious, why was my comment here removed? I voted to close as it's ...
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Can the comment writing box be in monospace font?
Comments are used to clarify posts or ask for more information.
They also support a very small sample of Markdown, to allow for the addition of links, bold, italics, and code font.
I would like to ...
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Why was my flag on a resolved duplicate comment declined?
On this question, I noticed that it was closed as a duplicate but the "Does this answer your question?" comment wasn't automatically removed like it's supposed to be, so I flagged it as "no longer ...
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Could user names in comments be updated when a user changes their name?
I changed my name a couple years ago on the stackexchange family of sites. It was an overall good experience.
I would share links to my answers to my facebook friends and coworkers, but I don't. ...
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Why keep dead link comments?
I recently flagged a few comments that provided a link to what was ostensibly a helpful resource, but had since become dead links linking to nothing in particular. The comments did not provide any ...
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How to make links in comments?
I have been trying to get links into comments but can't get it to work. I tried making one the same way you make one in a question or answer, but that didn't work. And then I tried these guys ways, ...
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Make formatting not take up characters in comments/chat?
As you may know, doing ['text']('URL link') makes a link that goes to 'URL link' but has the text of 'text'. However, when making comments with links in this way, the brackets, parenthesis, and URL ...
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What happened to the comments?
I asked this question How does train travel work?
I went to check it out after getting another upvote on the question. I noticed that the comments were deleted. I notified someone who commented on ...
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What's the best way to handle comments that answer a question?
This happens all too often:
Someone asks a question that's mostly clear
Another user posts a comment, but inadvertently (or intentionally) answers the question
No one actually posts an answer, but ...
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