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| Oct 26, 2018 at 1:08 | comment | added | user64742 | Plus if someone makes a point and the answerer moves it into their answer without giving proper credit then by deleting the comment it makes it look as if those were the answerers thoughts and not something given by a comment. I think you might need to elaborate a bit further on that case.... it just doesn't seem right for SE in general. | |
| Oct 26, 2018 at 1:06 | comment | added | user64742 | Yeah I agree fully with the points made in these comments. Comments do not hurt anything by being present. If a comment is not actively against the rules or damaging the site it should not be removed. The site rewards people for making helpful comments. By deleting the comment you are claiming the comment was not helpful and punishing them. Unless the site has changed it so that deleted comments are merely "invisible" and not marked as "bad" (unless some special mod thing is marked) deleting helpful comments is actually harmful to the commentor. | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 2:44 | comment | added | TheHonRose | Barn cats are people too. ;-) | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 14:48 | comment | added | T.E.D. Mod | @DevSolar (Realize we are talking theoretically here. I believe I deleted nobody's comments yesterday but my own, and haven't looked at the one you created a meta question over). | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 14:46 | comment | added | T.E.D. Mod | @DevSolar - ...and sometimes that upvote is a valuable contribution to the question itself, in which case I will try to keep it. But if its of the form "This post completely overlooks ....", that comment gets 57 upvotes, and the "..." is then taken into account properly and completely in the answer, then not only has it served its purpose, but it is now likely hurting the post unfairly because there is still a very highly-rated comment saying the post needs work, when it no longer does. | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 14:40 | comment | added | DevSolar | Still it's something other users can upvote (which somewhat alleviates the "missing" of later comments), and something the SE framework explicitly honors. I fully agree with the other points on your list, but that one I feel is a bit heavy-handed. | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 14:36 | comment | added | T.E.D. Mod | @DevSolar - Comments' chief function is to help improve the post. The problem is if you have so many that someone has to click "more" to see them all, later comments get missed. So if a comment has served its purpose, and it is obscuring later ones that have not yet, it really ought to go. (And no, comments are simply not on the same level as answers. That's why editing and versioning tools aren't available for them, and that "more" link exists in the first place.). | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 14:23 | comment | added | DevSolar | I disagree with your second point -- that a comment that was actually helpful to improve the question / answer "should go". For one, it removes a positive example from the site. Second, that's what comments are for, and what StackExchange actively honors with the "Commentator" and "Pundit" badges. It's somewhat like removing all other answers once the OP has chosen the "correct" one... | |
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| Dec 21, 2017 at 15:05 | history | answered | T.E.D.Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |