Questions tagged [comment]
Comments are small addendums to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting.
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List of comment templates
Inspired by this question on meta.cstheory.SE. The post at meta.Tex.SE is quite impressive.
We often leave generic comments to OP and answer posters such as "if this is a homework, please add a tag," ...
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Dealing with answers in comments.
I have noticed, of late, people providing answers/copious hints to the question in comments instead of actually adding an answer on their own.
Other people might choose not to answer, as the ...
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What should one do when one's question has been answered in the comments? [duplicate]
Once in a while, when one is venturing out of one's area of expertise, one may post a question and find it answered quickly and completely in the comments section. Perhaps someone has linked to a well-...
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How to copy mixture of text and latex formulas in a comment?
Okay, I might sound lazy. When trying to copy mixture of text and latex formulas in an answer, it is always easy. I can simply click "edit" and copy the source. But when trying to do the same in a ...
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Downvoting for no stated reason is abusive
When I post a short simple answer to a posted question and someone downvotes it, they should be able to explain their objections if I so request. During the months I've been here, I don't recall that ...
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Comments layout break if Math expression is too long
Checkout the comment section of the accepted answer in How to find the center of an ellipse?.
Notice that the second comment has a maths expression which is too long and it is not wrapped, making it ...
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Too long LaTex formulae not shown in comments?
If you try to show this formula in comments, it fails.
$$M:\left[\begin{array}{cc}x&y\end{array}\right]\mapsto\left[\begin{array}{ccc}x&y&1\end{array}\right]M=\left[\begin{array}{ccc}u&...
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How to link to a comment?
I was wondering if it is possible to link to a comment? For example, the second comment after this reply Questions about geometric distribution
Thanks!
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Spurious space within number
In this comment, the penultimate number in the list, $59930$, is displayed (in Firefox $11.0$) with a spurious space between the two $9$s. I made sure I hadn't inadvertently pasted any invisible ...
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How to make a remark when reputation is under 50 ?
Imagine I look at a question and have a remark about someone's answer, or just want some clarification about it. I naturally want to leave a comment. But being under reputation 50, I can't.
Plus, ...
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What is the etiquette about leaving short thank-you comments?
I left a brief question in a comment, and got a helpful reply, also in a comment. Then I wanted to leave a reply that said "Thank you.", but the comment system will not accept a comment of fewer than ...
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In praise of silence
I want to praise silent downvotes. I think they are underused, underappreciated, and misunderstood. This may be due to statements such as one in down-voting tag ...
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How to browse or search comments?
SE is already very good in keeping each individual user's record on their questions raised and their answers posted. I am wondering is it also possible to keep track of their comments made too? Then ...
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Editing to remove a "Thank you" in a post [duplicate]
What should be done when a (for example, brand-new) user has a question which ends with,
"Thank you."
I ask because in the "edit suggestions" review queue today there was an edit which removed such ...
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The return key in comments
I have noticed recently that when composing comments, pressing the return key
submits the comment as is. This behaviour differs from that when composing
replies. I am using Firefox. As I frequently ...
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Why do people answer the question in the comment section?
I am wondering why many answers are posted in the comment section of the question? Why not post as an answer?
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Posting an answer as a comment
Related (possible duplicates):Dealing with answers in comments and What should one do when one's question has been answered in the comments?
I've seen this more than a couple times now: here is a ...
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MathJax not displayed in comments
In the Android App, the MathJax is not displayed correctly in comments to answers.
I assume this also applies to comments the question, but I have not verified that.
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Should we really have a reputation requirement for commenting?
It's been my experience that this is damaging to the functionality of the site.
Example. Say there are two answers to a question. The answerer pertaining to one of them misses something subtle but ...
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Allow newline in comments
The comment length here is such that it corresponds to what normally is a long paragraph in usual written communications.
In some situations, it is more natural to write two short paragraphs, or one ...
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When closing question for lack of effort, leave a comment to OP explaining what to do
Recently there was an extensive discussion about closing the questions containing only the problem statement: http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/9201/proposal-discourage-questions-that-are-...
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Do hints belong in answers or comments?
If the OP doesn't indicate whether they'd prefer a hint, a sketch, or a full answer, and you'd like to leave just a hint, should it be an answer or a comment? Should one option be encouraged? If so, ...
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When is @ ping necessary to cause comment notification to take place?
I know that sometimes if you want a specific user to be notified by a comment, you have to put @so and so. But can someone explain to me when that is and isn't necessary? Thanks!
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Try to comment: Fail review audit
I know the review audits aren't without their flaws, but with this review:
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/109542
it should be clear that something is not right. As usual, the vote ...
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CFV: Proposal for standardized meta-comments, to avoid main-site meta discussions
Below is a sketch of a proposal I devised for handling the problem of rambling contentious meta-level discussions on the main site. The basic idea is to have a list of standardized community-elected ...
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Threatening emails from Jeff Atwood
I just received the following threat in private email from
Jeff Atwood.
I have no intention of corresponding privately with Mr Atwood, so
I reproduce his message here.
Mr Atwood starts with a ...
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TeX formatting in other comments in the same post is lost when the comment list is updated
If there's any TeX formatting in comments of a post, after you add a comment to that post, or click "add / show n more comments", all formulae are reverted to $...$....
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Preferred course of action for flagging of multiple obsolete comments
One of the recurring things on the main site is comments about the content of a question or an answer.
Once the question/answer is edited to reflect these comments, they are often rendered obsolete. ...
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How do you cite a reference in a comment?
If I want to quote a reference in an answer on this site, I use the syntax [Here][1] followed at the end of the answer by ...
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How to proceed after question was answered in comments?
I asked a question and a user posted a comment of the form 'did you try ...'. This did indeed work and I consider the question answered. I wrote another comment on my question confirming that this ...
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Who should be pinged by the "@<user>" feature if there is more than one match
Recently in the main site, I visited the users tab, and there I searched for "Subhadeep Dey", and it showed two results, this one and my own profile, and in both the cases, the username is totally ...
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Agent Smith Calling Agent Smith [duplicate]
AgentSmith (UserID=1) (not his real name) decides to ask a question at math.stackexchange.com.
Another user with the same name (UserID=2) comments on this question and after a while a third one, also,...
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Formatting bug: long mathjax or code blocks break entire post or page
Long, broken MathJax expressions seem to break the formatting of all comments on a post, causing them to spill to far over to the right. In addition to making the comments hard to read, it can make ...
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How to copy page content including all TeX commands
I posted an answer to this question, and a commenter suggested an alternative. The commenter answer was simpler, more elegant than mine, and I would have upvoted it ... except he had posted it in the ...
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Should I flag comments, where long MathJax breaks page layout?
There were several posts mentioning that for various reason (mistake in the LaTeX-code, automatically inserted space) MathJax can break page layout:
Formatting bug: long mathjax or code blocks break ...
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What have you tried? Is this homework? You will get more help if ...
It was fine/acceptable seeing occasional users receiving one/two line comments about appropriate tags, attempts, use of Latex etc. (I am not that old user though. But it was fine when I started.)
It'...
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Why is it that people down vote an answer without even bothering to comment what is the problem? [closed]
Why is it that people down vote an answer without even bothering to comment what is the problem?
On many cases I find that people down vote my answer and I am not able to figure out who has downvoted ...
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Why do we need to avoid to thank somebody?
When I want to comment on an answer that I received for one of my questions, I get the following reminder:
"Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like "+1"...
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Suggestions of tags and title edits by user NormalHuman - How to do it?
Almost $90$% of the questions I have seen from the time I have joined Maths.SE, I have noticed that the user NormalHuman suggests title edits, tag edits and question modifications almost instantly ...
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Removing comments when they become irrelevant
Could someone give me a pointer about the etiquette concerning comments that become "stale"?
If I add a comment pointing out a simple error in an answer, and that answer is subsequently edited to ...
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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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What happens when the "move comments discussion to chat" link is used?
When clicking on the "move comments discussion to chat?" link (under an answer), what actions are triggered :
(a) if the click is by the poster of the answer
(b) if the click is by a commenter in ...
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How to force newlines in comments?
When I write a comment, I don't know how to go to the next line because if I press Enter button It will submit the comment.
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How to format links in comments
I wonder how to provide nice links in comments, similar to the links in the question/answers. I tried
<a href="link">link description</a>
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Accepting comments as answers
Sometimes a comment will suffice to answer a person's question. This may be because they are only missing one small step in the argument, or because they can be pointed to a resource that answers ...
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How to search among comments?
I remember someone mentioned about the meaning of "order" in first order language and second order language in a comment to one of my questions. But I searched with "first order" with my id "user:1281"...
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comments that answer the question
The latest example is My idea about finding the largest prime number where OP asks about a distributed processing approach to find prime numbers. There was a comment: mersenne.org – pedja which OP ...
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Is it possible to insert an image in comments? if the answer is "yes", then how?
Is it possible to insert an image in comments? if the answer is "yes", then how?
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What to do about comments with broken MathJax?
Sometimes one comes across content that has MathJax that does not render correctly. When it is a post one can edit it.
But what to do about comments that have MathJax that does not render correctly ...
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Will images included in a comment remain available
I just wanted to write a comment with reference to an image. As comments won't allow inline images, I uploaded the image to an edit window of some other post, canceled the edit there, and included the ...
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