Timeline for Why do people answer the question in the comment section?
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| May 6, 2018 at 17:30 | answer | added | Derek Elkins left SE | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 15:24 | vote | accept | C.T. | ||
| Feb 9, 2018 at 15:08 | comment | added | Yuriy S | If I'm on the phone, typing a full answer is too much work (typing latex on the phone? terrible). If I can give a comment with a hint, why not do it? Another point: If I make a mistake, deleting a comment is simple, while the deleted answer sits there for all 10k+ users to see | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 12:25 | answer | added | Jyrki LahtonenMod | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 11:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMath/status/586855513054388224 | ||
| Mar 29, 2015 at 2:17 | comment | added | Robert Soupe | In my previous comment, I neglected to mention that you have to have 125 reputation points before you can downvote. As an answer, it could be downvoted just for that tiny detail, or for another reason or no reason at all. But this is Meta, and a downvote here wouldn't hurt my reputation score anyway. | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 2:14 | comment | added | Robert Soupe | Sometimes it's to avoid capricious downvoting. You know you've got the right answer but don't have time to verify it's absolutely flawless. But then again, it's hard to know sometimes the reason for a downvote. The thing is, you have to justify why you're flagging a comment. You can downvote an answer for any reason at all, like you don't like the way they formatted an integral, you don't like how they split an infinitive, or you just plain think they must be absolute jerks offline. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 12:03 | comment | added | GEdgar | If there are multiple questions stated, and you are answering some but not all of them. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 20:50 | vote | accept | C.T. | ||
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 20:49 | answer | added | user14972 | timeline score: 37 | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:28 | comment | added | Daniel Fischer Mod | Some related questios. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:18 | comment | added | MJD | Good question! In this case, it was because I did not consider my answer sufficiently complete. So there is another reason. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:18 | history | edited | Asaf KaragilaMod |
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:18 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @MJD: That's a good reason, why didn't you post that as answer? :-) | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:17 | comment | added | MJD | I sometimes post a comment when I think I have the answer to the questions, but I'm not sure I'm right. Sometimes I'm wrong, and then okay, it was just a comment, but sometimes I'm right and then people say "Why didn't you post that as an answer?” | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:17 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | Sometimes you know that the question has been asked before, and you just want to give the gist of the answers before voting to close as a duplicate. Like in this case. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 18:53 | comment | added | Daniel Fischer Mod | Perhaps one is too lazy to type out a full answer. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 18:44 | history | asked | C.T. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |