Timeline for answer to Should users refrain from answers (or partial answers) in comments? by Shalvenay
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| Oct 5, 2021 at 2:30 | comment | added | Shalvenay | @fectin -- that is entirely a fair point | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 17:16 | comment | added | fectin | Incidentally, "troubleshooting" style comments seem to play just fine here. If someone comes in asking how to address a social situation, comments often ask "Did you talk to other players? What did they say?" | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 8:59 | comment | added | WakiNadiVellir | Encountered this answer from this main site question, and it occured to me that some questions here are similar to "iterative troubleshooting", at least product identification questions. Neither asker, nor answerers, usually don't know everything related, but some back-and-forth might jog memories, or expose links to images, in an answer-like manner. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 20:33 | comment | added | V2Blast | I just encountered a similar issue on scifi.SE. It's disheartening to hear that apparently their answers-in-comments philosophy does not match the one here. | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 15:57 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @Yasskier While I enjoy some participation at the Sci Fi SE, I find it's use of comments and lack of clean up a downer. | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 17:10 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | Yeah, frankly I don't use a lot of the other SEs even in areas I'm interested in because their question/answer/comment hygeine is terrible making them mostly like using the forums that already exist in these areas. Besides, we're not making this up ourselves, there's Stack Exchange-wide guidance on what comments are for and it's "improving a question or answer" period. Lax enforcement on other sites doesn't move me. | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 8:46 | comment | added | BESW | @Yasskier If you want to talk about what practices would be best for RPG.SE, you'll get a better dialogue if you focus on RPG.SE's situation rather than on what other sites are doing. Each site has to make the decision for its own situation. There are arguments for a laxer approach on RPG.SE--but "other sites do it" isn't persuasive unless you talk about why they do it, what costs/benefits they experience, & how their learning transfers to this Stack. (SFAIK scifi.se didn't make a policy decision so much as stumble into a culture that refuses to consider cracking down on comments.) | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 7:39 | comment | added | Yasskier | Fair enough @BESW, I'm just trying to understand things and maybe suggest that sometimes being such strict with rules is not in the best interest of the question, but I'm humbly bowing my head to people with more experience :) | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 7:36 | comment | added | BESW | @Yasskier Scifi.se is not a very good standard to gauge Stack-wide policies by. The answer I linked includes the Stack-wide FAQ on comments from Meta Stack Exchange, which describes the standard from which all other Stacks deviate according to individual need. Scifi.se moved in one direction, RPG.SE moved in another. You'll find that scifi.se's deviation is much further from the meta faq than rpg.se's. | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 7:29 | comment | added | Yasskier | @SevenSidedDie Yes, you might call finding the title of the book "troubleshooting" but so would be the comment for the example question I've posted in the OP. | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 7:28 | comment | added | Yasskier | @BESW I'm not saying "do as others sites do" just trying to understand the reasons why this SE does it slightly different. | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 6:45 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie Mod | @Yasskier I think that might not be the link you meant to use as an example? All the comments there are engaged in troubleshooting, and there's nothing there to support “such [comment] answers are even sometimes encouraged.” | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 6:11 | comment | added | BESW | @Yasskier Although Shalv was kind enough to offer some reasons, RPG.SE isn't really the place to get explanations for why other Stacks do what they do. You may find this answer useful. | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 5:44 | comment | added | Yasskier | I didn't have in mind more technical sites but things like Scifi stack exchange, where such answers are even sometimes encouraged - example | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 4:34 | history | edited | Shalvenay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
adjust example comment to the imperative tone
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| Oct 16, 2016 at 4:20 | history | answered | Shalvenay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |