Questions tagged [comments]
Comments are small addendums to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting.
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Text building blocks
There are some replies that are used quite often. For example, the first reply to many questions is a demand for a minimal example. These replies should typically include a link with additional ...
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Additional (math) operators, relations and so on ❧
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Cooperation with editors and non-TeX ...
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Why do people answer in comments?
Browsing TeX.SE, I have noticed that very frequently people provide answers to a question in the question's comments.
See for example
BibTeX error "inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up ...
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Our Do-it-for-me and Draw-it-for-me comments don't reflect our hypocrisy. Can they be improved?
Yes, we don't like people pasting something and asking how can I do this? or if it is TikZ, PSTricks, Asymptote case how can I-draw this? without even making a template of a TeX document, let alone ...
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"Just do it for me" text building block
We get a few questions that boil down to "just do it for me" (often, but not confined to, drawing questions). These can be highly irritating - especially if you've seen a few go by in a short space ...
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When writing a comment, how do I ensure that the person it is addressed to gets notified?
Often I want to address a comment to a specific user. How can I do that? I've seen that I've got to use the @ symbol for this, but I didn't find the exact rules in the faq. Can I notify any user? Do I ...
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Suggested edits: Giving feedback to editor
Reviewing suggested edits, I sometimes come across 'weird' edits, minor changes or real bad editings which change answers (regardless whether they are useful or not).
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What if a comment answers a question?
In „Why does the use of microtype and xfrac lead to a high compile time?“ the comment seems to provide the best answer. If seen this also in other questions. What is the best way to accept it as ...
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How to edit your own answers
Sometimes I get some very useful comments on my own answers and feel the urge to correct them accordingly. However, I see the problem, that if I just correct my answer straight, this would leave the ...
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MathJax boilerplate
We had a MathJax question just now that was unceremoniously closed as off topic. As it probably should be. But I feel like we should, if we can, direct the questioner some place elsewhere there ...
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Add "Change (answer) to comment" in review page
Some of the answers I reviewed are no answers, they are comments, but normally the user has not the reputation to comment.
To make things easier for the moderators isn't it possible to add a button ...
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Are "Thanks, that solved my problem" comments from the OP constructive?
The original poster of the question sometimes adds a comment to the (to-be-)accepted answer to state that it solved his/her problem.
Something in the form of "Thanks, that solved my problem" or "Yes, ...
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Are thanks-only comments appropriate at this SE site?
When reading the tour, I saw (in the section titled Improve posts by editing or commenting) a sample comment that only provided a thanks, nothing else. On StackOverflow I learned to avoid this.
Are ...
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Why we should not use "Thanks" and why should we use it?
I am a new user and find hard when I get the answer to my question and I have this restriction "do not say "Thanks"". I want to say, but I shouldn't, so I give an upvote (now I can). I want to know ...
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Layout problem in comments
There is a problem when showing text of an answer comment.
If you look at my comment here, the text should read:
... right, this is because of the _. For some reason ..
But the underscore is ...
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Tracking my old comments
Not that I have a driving need for it, but I recently tried to track down an old comment (my own), and found no mechanism for it. Am I missing something?
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Changing stock comment for "'just do it for me' graphics questions" [duplicate]
Edit: @percusse asked a similar/the same question here, and there seems to be a bit more uptake on that version of the question, so perhaps this question should be closed as a duplciate of that one.
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Why can't I delete more than five of my own comments?
From time to time I check my comments on TeX.SE and delete obsolete one like "Welcome to TeX.SE" or if the content of my comment has been added to an answer or ...
Today I got the message that I'm ...
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Can I undo marking a comment as a "great comment"?
Just fully trusting what was written there, I marked Joseph's first comment on this answer as a "great comment". Now Ulrike's comment told me that the first comment wasn't that great after all (no ...
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What limits are there on voting on comments and how do I tell how many votes I have used?
I'm not certain whether something has changed but I don't remember running out of votes for comments in the past. At least, I certainly don't remember running out of them at all often. Then yesterday, ...
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Link targets should not count into the comment length
When posting a comment, one is limited to 500 characters. These include the link target addresses, which can be pretty long. I believe that the intention of the restriction is to make the comment at ...
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Is there a way to give anonymous feedback without flagging?
Probably many of you have seen low-quality answers, for which less versed users may not immediately see that the answer is low-quality. A specific situation could be answers to TikZ questions in which ...
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Why can a new user post an answer but not a comment?
We can read here that there is a minimal reputation to comment a post. But there is no minimal to post an answer!
I believe that an answer is more important than a comment.
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Mobile site functionality
On the main site, comment deletion is achieved by hovering over the comment, thereby displaying a "delete cross", and clicking it:
But, of course, no hovering is possible on a handheld device. My ...
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Should we clean up obsolete comments?
Comments are usually very helpful and valuable. However, sometimes it happens that comments to answers or questions become obsolete, and can distract from valid comments. For example:
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What is the highest voted comment on TeX.SE?
I just came across this
In an ideal world the workflow would be "1) tell your collaborators to use LaTeX 2) live happily ever after"
comment by Seamus and thought "wow, I haven't seen a comment ...
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Why does commenting require more reputation than answering?
I think that newbies are more inclined to make small remarks than full answers. The actual privilege mechanism forces them to put as an answer what should be a comment, and then require a moderator to ...
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Different code “convention” in questions than in comments
My first question here.
Displaying backticks is apparently difficult. But it's not, just surround the inline code by more backticks than those that appear (concatenated) in the code. E.g., If you ...
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Is asking for comments on a finished piece of code a permissible question?
I want to learn to use Tikz properly. I've already created a number of pictures with it, thanks in large part to the help I received from fellow tex.stackexchange users. Thus I'm able to use some of ...
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Enable Ctrl+K shortcut in comments for inline code
It is frequent to have to write macros or packages names in comments of questions or answers. Because the Ctrl+K shortcut is disabled in such comments, it is necessary to manually surround with the ...
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Improve experience for new users with helpful comments
Can we somehow improve the experience for users, who have useful comments but can only post (non-)answers?
We regularly recommend deletion of (or delete for the top users) "answers" from new users. ...
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Why can't I comment?
I'm pretty new to the SX world and slightly confused. I can comment on my own question and everything in that page, but the "add comment" button and textboxes just don't appear in any other page. It ...
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Comments with link (Policy or Feature Request): Automatically rendered as question's title or answerer username
As discussed at Question: Automatic question's title insertion with link, question/answer url links in comments does not automatically render as titles or answer usernames.
A Workaround pointed ...
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Why is upvoting comments possible when I ran out of upvotes for questions and answers?
Yesterday it happened that I ran out of upvotes (for questions and answers). But I was able to upvote two (or more) interesting comments.
I thought upvoting a comment reduce the number of free ...
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How to trigger the auto-completion in a comment when referring to a non-latin user name?
I want to make a comment for this answer but because one user has a Chinese character as its user name, I failed to refer it in the comment. Shortly speaking, how to trigger the auto-completion (aka ...
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What if a comment answers a question by a keyword/hint?
I have read "What if a comment answers a question?" and in most cases I am supposed to ask the user who commented to give an answer.
And here is the instance
"Timeline for overlapping (multi-year) ...
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Show hidden comments by default
Apologies if this is in the wrong place. By default SE hides some comments on questions or answers when there are several; it seems to hide those with fewest upvotes. But this often leaves dialogue ...
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why was "possible duplicate" comment with additional information deleted?
I came across “Tikz: Arrow description closer to arrow” earlier and flagged it as a duplicate, as I don't have enough reputation on tex.se to cast a close vote. I edited the “possible duplicate” ...
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Can moderators see deleted comments?
A comment can be made obsolete, for instance, by the deletion of an earlier comment on the same post.
Under the assumption that a comment on a given post (question or answer) gets flagged as obsolete ...
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Writing a list of issues to a given answer (with lists and embedded pictures)
I wanted to write some hints and issues regarding Altermundus' answer in this answer. It would be quite longish and I'd like to include pictures and a list, so I have no idea what to do aboout it:
It'...
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Could a default comment about MWEs be added in reviews?
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Recently I noticed a very common behavior about new users, they ask questions without providing MWEs.
As an example, this question have more than one comment about lack of MWE.
While review ...
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Multiline code block in comment
I believe there are reasons like easier readability and preserving the original formatting that would make enabling some way of creating multiline code blocks in comments preferable.
Searching ...
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An awkard alignment in the comments
I am attaching below a picture to indicate how the arrows intended to indicate you have upvoted some commment is aligned awkardly. Is that by-design or something that should go unnoticed? Anyway, it ...
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Follow up questions to answered thread
I have marked a thread as answered many times, but on a few of them, I later asked a follow up comment. Do the answers not get notified when the thread is marked answered? Or is common just to ...
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Undo upvote on a comment in first 60 seconds
Why is it only in the first 60 seconds possible to undo an upvote on a comment?
My arguments against it:
It takes me even more than 60 seconds to compile tex-code on my
old machine.
If the ...
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Search questions without comments
I was wondering if it is also possible to search for questions which are unanswered AND also lack any comments? I could not find it here or using Google.
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How can one lose reputation by posting a comment?
This is to report a curious effect. I just lost 2 reputation points (not that I care) and my indicator shows
The linked post is a deleted question, and all I did was to add a comment there.
This is ...
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On "comment", @name sometimes does not work
Sometimes when I try to leave a comment the @name syntax does not work. For example I tried to leave a comment for Ulrike Fischer and I could not find a combination of characters that would work. I ...
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Is there a time-zone issue?
In the post "How do I pass an expanded optional argument using expl3/xparse?" there are two comments at the bottom by Bruno and Joseph. surprisingly (to me at least) Joseph's answer is logged one hour ...
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Missing Inbox Notification
I did not receive an inbox notification for Martin Schroder's comment in Greek Letters in Latex Table made 16 hours ago:
When I check my history I have:
Clicking on the last one showing in the ...
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