Questions tagged [comment]
Comments are small addendums to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting.
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Duplicating standard reasoning in a question about an open problem in number theory
Recently, a math professor, with a very impressive set of mathematical papers. made a comment that took me by surprise. I am very open to the feedback. I wanted to open it up here to see what others ...
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Am I, as a comment flagger, a waster of the moderators' time?
Preamble
I am a novice SE user, a toddler. In this post I want to criticize some moderator actions, which seems risky and futile, regarding unwritten policies on the meta; however, just for the record,...
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What privileges can get after reaching 25k reputation?
I am interested especially in whether one can get the right to delete the others' comments.
Unfortunately, from what I read there are no more privileges after 25k reputation. Is this right?
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How to deal with comments discouraging attempts to answer a question.
I frequently use Mathematics Stack Exchange to ask mathematical questions which find applications in electromagnetics. These often boil down to the behaviour of integrals and summations.
Recently, I'...
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Should I thank people when they post comments?
When I ask questions on MSE, a lot of people often leave very helpful tips and suggestions in the comment section under my question. I feel that it's only right to thank each and every one of them for ...
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Advise new users to stay engaged with their question
A number of times recently I've seen a new user drop a simple question (some bad, but some OK questions), and it's got some misunderstanding of what they're working on or a confusing explanation, ...
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Deletion of flagged comments
Suppose I flag a comment, and the user subsequently deletes the comment before the flag is resolved. Do the moderators still see my flag?
(I tried searching previously asked meta questions, but could ...
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Mathematics or rules : prioritizing content of first replies on improvable posts
I have found myself bewildered by a meldrum-conundrum, and I suggest a way of getting out of it.
So let's say we have a new user, a person who is getting used to the site and thus should be afforded a ...
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Improving MathJax experience for beginners
I don't know if this has already been discussed here on the meta, but since most of these 'MathJax Tutorial' have been meant for beginners, wouldn't it make sense if they could comment asking their ...
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Why have these “unfriendly or unkind” comment flags been declined?
I recently flagges three comments on an answer to be "unfriendly or unkind" - The reason was that the comments said "you are so boring" (direct quote, addressing the OP of the ...
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Comments should contain at least $15$ characters
When we want to write a comment we see this message: "enter at least $15$ characters"
However it is not an accurate way of measuring the characters used in comments when we are in discussion ...
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Issues happen when users change their username on the site
Sometimes I change my username on the MSE site. and it cause a problem. for example for my older comments on posts when I discuss with other users in comment section we normally tag usernames in the ...
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What happens if exceed character limit in comments?
I am aware that for comments we have maximum of 600 characters to type and by curiosity I just happened to type some random words in a comment box. I expected that when comment exceeded 600 characters ...
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Flagging WHYT on deleted posts
Background info
The comment "what have you tried" has been banned on the SE network, and it's removable by a single flag.
Motivation
The Marshal badge is awarded to users who have raised 500 ...
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Pinging the author of a deleted comment
In the comments under the question Prove $\sqrt{\frac{a}{a+b}}+\sqrt{\frac{b}{b+c}}+\sqrt{\frac{c}{c+a}}\gt1$, I found the notorious four-word question that I flagged. It's automatically removed as ...
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Should jokes on the comments be flagged?
I see a lot of people making jokes at the comments with some getting a lot of upvotes. Shouldn't this types of comments be flagged? My feeling is that this belongs to "It's no longer needed" ...
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Mobile phone Latex/MathJax not showing in..
Is there a way to see full symbols in Titles and Comments using equations and expressions? Thanks.
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Has the notification system for comments changed?
I noticed in the past days, that I do not get a notification when someone writes a comment under an answer, where I commented too, unless I am referred to with the usual @username.
I have the feeling ...
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Regarding - posting a negative comment to a question and answering the same.
We post comments to posts which lack effort, suggesting them to include their efforts(I agree with that) or informing them that the answer is trivial when they use a particular formula or method.
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Is my workaround for the minimum character limit okay?
I tried to edit this answer, simply by adding 2 pairs of parentheses which fell short of the 6 character minimum limit.
So I cancelled the edit and suggested the change via a comment, then the OP did ...
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Should I comment an old question or create a new one?
I have some questions about a Probability problem, which has already been asked and has a quite comprehensive answer. I am not arriving at the same result and I can not find out where my reasoning ...
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Comment deleted and reputation loss
I made a comment in a post several minutes ago.
Very soon, before I had the time to edit, it got deleted and I also noticed that I lost about 40~50 reputation, without any notification. Nothing is ...
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Is it rude to tag someone in the comments of an old post and politely ask them to check out your new question related to another post?
I was wondering whether is it rude to tag someone (who was extremely helpful in the past) in the comments of an old post and politely ask them to check out your new question related to another post ...
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Do newly added answers wipe out comments in progress?
I've recently had a few comments I was in the process of typing out wiped out when a new answer was posted to the question. I don't remember this happening before, but I don't recall if the ...
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Answer to a short question that was already answered in comments
The question Find $\nabla f(x,y)$, where $f(x,y)=10x^3-5x^2+5xy+5y^2+8$ is pretty much of a kind "please, check if I did this correctly". I have clarified a couple of confusions in comments, ...
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Why did my comment(s) get deleted?
I recently gave this answer to a question. Initially, I gave a sloppy answer—the kernel was there, but I didn't set it up properly. Someone pointed this out, and after some time, I was able to ...
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Searching in comments for a specific OP of a question and a word used in comments
I would like to search for my username user122424 and a specific word used in comments that I remember from reading that comment to get back to it. How can I do that?
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Is it no longer considered OK to post a comment of more than 600 characters as an answer?
On more than one occasion, always with an explicit disclaimer, I
have posted a comment of more than 600 characters as an "answer".
I have done this because I have quite often seen other ...
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Finding previously upvoted comments
I upvoted a comment that I found intriguing. However, it crossed my mind again and I couldn't remember on which post it was. Is there any way I can find it? Or should I browse through my browser ...
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Why was a comment deleted as obsolete when part of it is still relevant? [closed]
I noticed that my comment to this answer has disappeared. Why did it happen? If the comment was flagged as outdated and then removed, I believe this is wrong. The first part of the comment was about ...
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Can users not call another anonymous user a “nut-case” due to said anon-user's upvote or a downvote?
Can users not call another anonymous user a "nut-case" (or any other name-call) due to said anon-user's upvote or a downvote?
This happened today. I flagged the comment.
So I am asking askers, ...
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Flagged duplicate “Does this answer your question?” text is misleading
Here's at least the second instance in which I have flagged a question as a duplicate, and the canned comment text "Does this answer your question?" elicits from the author of the duplicate question a ...
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Marking a comment as resolved?
The problem
Sometimes someone comments on a question suggesting that some aspect of the question be clarified or otherwise changed. Then the OP changes the question accordingly, sometimes including ...
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negative comments on trivial answers
I often see questions completely answered in comments. Sometimes these are elaborate comments or even sequences of comments; in that case I suggest to the commenter that they should post their comment ...
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Answering in the comments [duplicate]
I have this question its mine (my question) Its not the first time that people answer in the comments, I know that the unanswered questions impact the site statistics, and if I answer it using the ...
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When should one not edit their own questions?
I am the type of person who unfortunately makes a lot of mistakes of the dumb kind with miscalculations. Sometimes I end up posting my questions containing those miscalculations.
Is it ok to edit my ...
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Improved wrong comments written with MathJaX? [duplicate]
Sometimes I see that some comments are written with command or syntax errors.
In fact they are displayed in red (for example $\gama$ instead of \gamma ($\gamma$)) ...
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MathJax fails to load in the comments [duplicate]
Starting few days ago MathJax fails to load in the comments. It works well in the other boxes: questions and answers.
Used browser: Mozilla.
However this phenomenon doesn't occur when I use Chrome. ...
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Comments containing MathJax are not being displayed fully
Yesterday evening there were two posts in Meta - here, and here - concerning display problems. Simultaneously, on the main MSE site, I was noticing that comments containing MathJax could no longer be ...
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Audit first post question
I was reviewing through the “first posts” on an iPad when I come up across a question about conjugates. Because it was an audit, it did not show any comments... etc. I decided to first comment on it, ...
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Notice when an answer you commented on gets deleted
I posted an answer to a question but it turns out I had a major error in it. Another user posted a comment pointing out the error. I agree with the comment and so I deleted the answer. For SE in ...
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Comment etiquette: Should one delete a comment about a minor error after correction has been made?
I recently commented on a solution and pointed out a small error; the author soon commented back, thanked me and corrected the error. He/she was perfectly nice, and I'm not asking the question because ...
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In the StackExchange iPhone app, how do I get MathJax to work in comments in the Math StackExchange section?
I’m not sure this is the right place to ask but it seemed like it is.
I don’t get this problem for other sections of StackExchange. Just the “Mathematics” section.
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Auto-delete a comment in reply to a deleted comment
It has happened to me many times that I posted an answer and a user found a minor or major flaw in my answer, commented it and I fixed it. Then after, I thanked the guy for his helpful feedback and ...
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Why community in SE deleted my comment related to the below duplicate question?
Really am sorry for the behavior of community of stackexchange math, I am the first who has marked this question as a duplicate question and I have got some up vote for this comment After sometimes,...
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Links in comments do not work if they contain space before dollar and also square brackets inside MathJax
The format [text](url) is the standard format for using links in the comments. And it works just fine even if the text contains MathJax.
Normally, adding spaces ...
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What should I do when an answer-in-a-comment is redundant with an actual answer?
The question "Mathematic notation: What does "$a|p$" or "$b|c$" mean?" received an answer-in-a-comment:
Assuming you are referring to a and b as (say) integers, then a∣b means a ...
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Is there any way to have comment templates whenever we are typing comments?
We already have a comment template thread but oftentimes it takes a long time to open meta, go to the question, wait for the page to load, scroll down to the correct comment and copy it, especially if ...
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I flagged a comment- it was removed yet my flag appears to be declined
I flagged a comment an hour ago as it was rude. I just checked it now and my flag appears to be removed, yet the comment deleted.
Is there any reason why this happened? Is this due to a bug?
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Comment disappeared
In the following question: Are there any irrational/transcendental numbers for which the distribution of decimal digits is not uniform?, I distinctly remember adding a comment about "God being lazy ...
