Does the OP of a question get pinged / in-boxed for comments in a chat created on their answer? If not can someone please make a chat on this question?
I come from a scientific background, so wearing a mask is second nature in a laboratory & clinical settings: I am biased because I do not want to infect patients or inhale pathogens.
That being said, I am trying to understand the viewpoint as to exactly what liberty and how the requirement to we...
I've been noticing a trend lately of people writing answers in the comment section. What does this mean? When you write an attempt to solve the OPs question - whether it's a fully fleshed out idea or not - and dump it in the comment box.
This is not good.
Answers in comments are detrimental to ...
"if there are 30 other people who think it's a terrible idea but can't express it through voting" ... then five of them forgot to flag it. I am "intimidated", and the purpose of any comments I'd make there would be to help me "think things through fully". Which is basically the only reason I post anything except for laughs. And this isn't funny. And I think it 'does matter'. And the worse thing you can do is post an answer that's not thought through.
It's the same reason I asked if it wouldn't bug the OP or not. Having a comment silently deleted is a lot more fun than 6 DVs and calls for deletion. Or posting an answer that starts a comment thread that leads somewhere that I don't want to be a part of. By-design, so be it. I said what I wanted to say, I just had to bug someone else's answer.
In a chat room that no one will ever read anyway....
@Mazura You can start a discussion or make a feature request, to change the way flagging works or what purpose comments should be used for; if you have any objections to something in that Q&A. Similarly, everyone (with sufficient rep) is allowed to flag comments (or Q&As); one of the choices is: "It's no longer needed. - This comment is outdated, conversational or not relevant to this post." - on some sites the moderators will quickly purge the comments, on a few sites they tend to allow them.