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Comments are small addendums to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting. Comments are second-class citizens.

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Is it wise or just sugar-coating to remove the comments?

When you've removed some comments and you think the rest of the discussion might be hard to follow without them, go ahead and raise a flag. … Every once in a while, though, we'll see some value in letting the comments stay in place, so we'll let the comments remain instead. …
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Comment Templates

Personally, I’m not particularly fond of canned comments. When I see the same comment over and over again on an exchange, it starts to seem hackneyed and impersonal. …
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Comments are constantly disappearing

There's repartee between two or three users -- usually meaningless, but I personally enjoy reading and writing such comments. … Many of these comments get removed after fellow members of the community have flagged them for moderation attention. …
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How to handle inaccurate comments

In this particular case, it's worth noting that the author of the original comment deleted that comment after reading your response and your improved answer. This is actually a healthy way to handle …
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What happened to my comments?

the conversations in comments if they become "too chatty," too distracting, too hostile, too lengthy, too sidetracked, or unconstructive. … Sometimes thank you comments will get flagged. Discussions about the appropriateness of thank you comments on SE have gone on for years now. You can read more about this here, too. …
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Can anyone with a rep of 1 comment?

In this case, the answer already has two downvotes, plus a few comments that seem to go against it. …
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Extra Moderation

Concerning your edit: EDITED: Ey, I've just remembered why I linked these two subjects. I wrote a comment addressing the editor because she has left some blank spaces that I suggested to remove. …
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Commenting vs. Answering

I often "answer as a comment" when any of these are true: (a) the question is pretty basic and can be answered very easily, but I'd rather not leave something so brief as a full-fledged answer (I di …
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Why the heck do you keep removing my comments telling askers to look things up

1) Comments are ephemeral. Comments are transient. Comments are temporary post-it notes. … Comments are not designed to hold information for all eternity. 2) Comments should be constructive, that is, they should serve a useful purpose in an edifying way. …
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What comments should I flag on ELL?

Should I flag comments to which the edit of the post has responded? If so, as what? If you think those comments could now be deleted, flag them as obsolete. … Flag them as obsolete if you think the site would be improved if these comments were cleaned up. Should I flag comments that can reasonably stand as answers? If so, as what? …
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Flagging the answers posted as comments

First, people already have the ability to flag comments that contain answers, so I’m not sure what you mean by: So my proposal is to have the ability to flag the comments which contain answers. …
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