Timeline for answer to Please notify users when their comment is deleted by Oded
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| May 20, 2021 at 9:22 | comment | added | aross | "Comments are not for discussion", while great in theory, entirely breaks down in practice. Someone comments "I think answer should include X", someone replies "that makes no sense because Y". I think that counts as a discussion, even if very short. But it's a discussion about improving the post. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Kyslik Because the comments are not for discussion. So if people are having a discussion, that option offers the ability to move the discussion from the wrong place to the proper place. | |
| May 30, 2018 at 7:30 | comment | added | Kyslik | I am still in the impression that stackexchange creators meant to use comments for more than just suggest to edits. Why is there a tag feature @Oded? Like how many % of people’s comments are: “Hey @Oded I think OP should add more info about...” it just weird or I don’t have the whole picture, to be frank I never bothered to read how to ask/answer/comment (if such exists) I just copied behaviour of higher rep. people. Anyway thank you for answering my previous answer. | |
| May 17, 2018 at 11:59 | comment | added | Oded | @Kyslik - people still want to discuss things. So, instead of having tha happen in comments, they can move them to chat, which is a much better medium for discussion. | |
| May 17, 2018 at 11:35 | comment | added | Kyslik | I don't get this "not for discussion" why is there "Move this to discussion" option available after couple of comments? | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 11:32 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @Stijn - that certainly should be the case. Deleting comments should have no penalty, unless the comment itself would be (as you put it) blatantly out of line (and therefore cause for penalty all by itself). | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 11:19 | comment | added | user247702 | @Oded may I assume that I won't get in any kind of trouble when my comments are deleted for any reason, as long as I'm not blatantly out of line? | |
| Nov 26, 2015 at 18:21 | comment | added | kdbanman | I do, and so do others. The point is that integration doesn't happen instantly, so the content of a valuable comment is a first class citizen until it is integrated. I don't disagree with you. I just want to clarify that, at least temporarily, comments can be just as valuable as an answer | |
| Nov 26, 2015 at 18:13 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @kdb and you have the power to do so. Why not exercise it? | |
| Nov 26, 2015 at 17:01 | comment | added | kdbanman | "If [comments] are oh-so-important, they should get rolled into the post they are commenting on." This is great in theory, but it does not happen very consistently. I often encounter answers that have a critical addition or criticism as a highly upvoted comment that has not been integrated into the answer. | |
| Apr 21, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @ASTPace - um. Anyone can do that. The commenter. The post OP. Another interested user (anonymous or not). That's why we have suggested edits and the edit privilege. | |
| Apr 21, 2015 at 16:43 | comment | added | Ast Pace | @Oded Perhaps your answer could clarify who should do the rolling of comments into posts, then, I assume, make this comment obsolete. Is there an assumption at SO that a poster will constantly massage a post to the point of removing all comments? | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 14:22 | comment | added | Wayne | No, I get that. Or I get that you think that. But your contributors are people, so it is about people whether you like it or not. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 14:19 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @lwburk - I see. You are thinking of Stack Overflow as a social site. We don't think the same - our focus is on content, not people. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 8:05 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @lwburk - I am talking about comments, not users. The content, not the contributor. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 0:25 | comment | added | Wayne | And, yes, partly so I can correct bad behavior. And partly just because a system that doesn't do this is just sort of a rude system that doesn't care about its users. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 0:24 | comment | added | Wayne | I don't think my contributions here are oh-so-important, but, gosh, is this really the posture you want to assume toward your users? "Oh, isn't that cute, somebody thinks they're oh-so-important." I'd like to know when my contributions are deleted. Yes, whether you think they're important or not. Yes, whether you think I sure care or not. I'd still like to know. | |
| May 16, 2014 at 13:56 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @Jeff - sometimes the behaviour is fine. But if the OP followed up on a suggestion of a comment, that comment is obsolete. And should go. Why notify you about comments. Your request gives comments more importance than we are willing to give them. | |
| May 16, 2014 at 13:55 | comment | added | asteri | My point isn't that the comment shouldn't have been removed. It should have. It was that you can correct the behavior if you know something was wrong. | |
| May 16, 2014 at 13:53 | history | answered | OdedStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |