Timeline for answer to How should I correct dead links in comments when I don't have enough reputation to comment? by Makoto
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| Sep 22, 2017 at 18:26 | comment | added | Kyle Strand | Sure, comments aren't indexed or searchable, but OP nevertheless found them, because the content of the question and answer are indexed and searchable. OP's whole dilemma here is the links DID provide important information, apparently with enough context to figure out the up-to-date URLs (which is actually pretty common). | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 18:13 | vote | accept | Wil Koetsier | ||
| Sep 21, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | Wil Koetsier | I have suggested an edit on the accepted answer, as you and @rene (comments to my question here) have suggested. I'll leave the comments as is (but could flag them obsolete should my edit be accepted). Stepping out (having learnt things from this dicussion) and looking at my question again, I'll accept Makoto's answer. I don't fully agree that comments are worth zero and are temporal, but I do agree that relevant information is better off in an answer than in comments. In my specific case, imo, by adding the info to the answer, the comments become obsolete. | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 16:58 | comment | added | ale | It sounds like they should be added to the answer. You have the power to suggest that edit; don't wait for the OP. | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 16:07 | comment | added | Wil Koetsier | I feel preserving the links really adds to the accepted answer. I'd poke the guy who answered to add it to the question, but I can't. I'm totally unsure if it's accepted that I would edit the links into the answer. I could just leave it, others could use the text and broken links to deduce where the information is now. But I thought I'd help out here. I'm sensing that even though I'd like to help, in this case, I can't and I should just leave it. | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 15:58 | comment | added | Makoto | @user000001: No. Again, comments aren't indexed or searchable. | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 15:57 | comment | added | user000001 | But the text of the broken links could lead someone to the new location of the information, as apparently happened with OP. Don't you think that value could be lost if the comments are deleted? | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 15:56 | comment | added | Makoto | @WilKoetsier: If they really wanted them to be preserved, they'd have put them in the answer. We really can't touch comments, and my strong opinion is that they're temporal anyway. I get that they may have held some promise at some point in time, but that promise faded when those links went dark. | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 15:54 | comment | added | Wil Koetsier | Well... I'd rather not flag them as obsolete, because they're still relevant, only the provided links are broken. But like you say, we can't edit them. | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 15:32 | history | answered | Makoto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |