I see so many people giving perfectly valid answers in comments to the question instead of answers. Why is that so? Comments cannot be marked as accepted answers, and people coming across the same problem in the future just see a question with no answers.
I know leaving a short comment is quicker than taking a minute to formulate a more formal answer, but I find it really hard to understand why people (mostly long time users) don't use the website as I would guess it's supposed to be used.
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– Superuser27 Mar 15 '19 at 12:12%
s. I commented, linked to the suggested duplicate and waited for confirmation instead of writing an answer immediately. That way I avoided writing an answer that has been given elsewhere (in the duplicate) and avoided the possible unpleasant experience of gold-badge-dupe-closing the question immediately without comment. – moewe Mar 15 '19 at 12:39