Timeline for Why are site comments being deleted?
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| Feb 24, 2023 at 11:25 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | It seems more rules-as-written rather than rules-as-intended to delete old useful comments because they haven't been incorporated into posts. Ideally all comments would be incorporated into posts, but the goal should be to provide useful content, and deleting useful comments is contrary to that. | |
| Apr 19, 2017 at 3:40 | comment | added | Please stop being evil | @SirTechSpec You don't need OP acceptance if it's years old. If the comment's a suggestion you agree with and the OP didn't disagree, just go ahead and edit it in. If someone objects, they can roll it back later. Then, since the comment's in the post, you can hit it as obsolete. | |
| Mar 15, 2017 at 18:51 | comment | added | nitsua60 | @SirTechSpec I garden as I wander, not systematically. A mentor of mine called it "administration by perambulation." Hopefully if enough of us do it, we have a nice, clean park to play in. And to mix our metaphors in. | |
| Sep 13, 2016 at 2:24 | comment | added | SirTechSpec | OK, I can kinda see that... but without any notification system, you have to review every comment you make periodically (assuming there's some way to do that) and either delete it because it was accepted or decide they're not going to and write your own answer, all before your comment gets deleted (automatically or otherwise) by someone else. An automated system saying "yo, it's been six months and the post hasn't been edited, if you really care about this put it in an answer but either way I'm deleting this comment soon, sincerely comment cleanup bot", strikes me as much more practical. | |
| Sep 13, 2016 at 0:47 | comment | added | nitsua60 | @SirTechSpec I'll sometimes poke OP with a comment to ask if they ever intend to take the suggestion, or will poke the commenter with a comment to point out that "OP's not taking your suggestion, perhaps you could work it into your own answer, the site's best served by having more high-quality answers, blah blah blah." In that case my habitual cleanup of my own comments will often pick up a case where that sort of comment's moved nothing and I feel fine flagging the original comment (and deleting my own). | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 23:46 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | Comments are for suggesting changes to an answer. If your changes are declined by the author, then yes, your recourse is to write your own answer. Unaccepted suggestions are indeed deletable. Except for lots of upvotes; see agrandine's answer and comment discussion on this question. | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 22:53 | comment | added | SirTechSpec | That last sentence is interesting to me. I would leave such a comment alone, considering the only other approved way to include what may be important corrections or caveats for posterity would be to write your own answer, possibly identical except for one line, which seems silly to me. Is there established consensus on this point? Does meta.rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/6230/… need tweaking? | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 22:40 | history | answered | nitsua60 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |