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You have a question regarding the use of comments on the site.

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Should we stop having extended discussions in comments?

The comments were moved to chat, but the chat link is now dead, since the thread contained less than 15 comments. … People Flagging Comments Just to Flag Comments In a comment it was mentioned that there are people (mostly coming through the HNQ list) that actively go around to hunt for comments to flag for removal …
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What is this community consensus on comments cleaning?

If the comments are truly useless/outdated, then, sure, cleaning them up is fine. … Comments that add extra useful information (but not directly providing an answer) or that are just funny should remain here, IMO, unless they start to get out-of-hand. …
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