I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

These are normal common messages most of us who've chatted in SE chat interfaces have seen. I find the way the negation prefix un- "acts" intriguing. Why would I star and unstar a chat message as interesting? Does "unstar as interesting" mean that I unstarred the message because it was inter...

Since chatty comment threads already get directed to chat why bother keeping the "too chatty" comment flag? I don't ever recall its use being beneficial. I also don't like the fact that you can't actually determine if a comment is too chatty without visiting the post in question. The flag qu...

So, in the spirit of George's question, I decided to try my hand at flagging comments again, and flagged a comment as "too chatty". The question I found was non-constructive in my opinion, but someone answered anyways. There are now five comments below the answer, with the last comment being th...

The purpose for comments is improve the question in some way (provide constructive feedback, request clarification, etc). See the "comment everywhere" privilege page under "When should I comment?" and "When shouldn't I comment?" for more details about the explicit purpose of comments. Having lo...