Questions tagged [comments]
You have a question regarding the use of comments on the site.
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Who has the right to delete comments?
In the question "The FAA is asking for medical records that I don’t want to give. May I refuse?" there was a discussion about a demand for an MRI by the FAA. This question was asked by a new ...
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Why were my rebuttals to another user's comments deleted?
In the comments to my answer on this question: Is there a deterministic guide to landing?, User71659 made several blatantly incorrect assertions. I countered, but my comments have been deleted with ...
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Comment policy consistency [duplicate]
Today I have been told off by a moderator for providing too much details in a comment on this question: Since modern ADF receivers don't rotate, how do they work?. I had previously written an answer ...
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Why are the comments being misused by established users?
Yes I'm putting myself in the firing line. And the purpose of this is not to call any one out.
I came across this:
It really boggles the mind. The Hangar is collecting figurative dust, and is being ...
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Condescending comments and answers
This question in particular
Can you request a new squawk code if you don’t like the one being assigned?
It seems that the person's superstition and belief is being questioned and answer more than the ...
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Can "wall of text comments" be flagged?
What is the moderators' stance on wall-o-text consecutive comments from a single-user (single as in per thread, not a particular individual)?
There's a reason why the comments are character limited.
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You're asking a dumb question!!1!
New contributor 👋 or not, when a question is asked, that may for one or more reasons be eligible for putting on hold, the first few comments I've been seeing lately can be read as you're asking a ...
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Declined comment flag for obsolete comment
This answer:
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/57925/874
gathered an excellent comment by @Mackk, which included a link to a video. I thought that the video would enhance the answer greatly, so ...
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What is this community consensus on comments cleaning?
Due to the volume of comments generated on the main site, StackOverflow, some comments can be "nuked" by a single user with a "no longer needed" flag. This is a built-in functionality available on all ...
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How should long, off-topic discussions by an asker be deterred?
This question was asked on the Aviation SE yesterday. While the question does contain a kernel of validity that makes it on-topic here (specifically, IMO, whether aircraft can be powered by ...
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Should bits of relevant information that are not full answers be allowed in question comments?
Per the recent question Should Aviation.SE allow answers posted in comments? and general SE policy, answers to the question are not supposed to be answered in comments.
However, sometimes users drop ...
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Should Aviation.SE allow answers posted in comments?
From the network guidelines:
When shouldn't I comment?
Answering a question or providing an alternate solution to an existing answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an existing one)...
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The community's reaction to bad questions
Per the comments on the most recent example, it seems like it's an ongoing issue that is bothering some users.
Objectively there are far worse questions with plenty of up-votes, questions from ...
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Should we stop having extended discussions in comments?
It has long been a mainstay of the stack exchange ethos that comments should not be used for extended discussion and even changes to the UI do not change this according to some.
Unfortunately I do ...
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What's with the aggressive comment deletion?
I'm going back through a few questions I've answered, and I'm finding that in many cases the comment/discussion has been edited down or in some cases almost entirely wiped out.
It's definitely not ...
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Comment tag for bounty giver or post editor
I don't know if it's a missing feature, or a bug. But when someone offers a bounty on someone else's post, you cannot tag them in a comment using @.
Same goes when someone edits a post that is not ...
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How should we deal with several now-obsolete comments from different users?
I was wondering how the Aviation SE mods prefer us to deal with posts that have several now-obsolete comments from multiple users (e.g. comments that were suggesting modifications to a question that ...
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