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This is a terrible idea.
Comments are the only sane way to warn others of a dangerously bad answer where:
Others haven't spotted the problem
The OP refuses to accept there is a problem.
Well up-voted answers are sometimes wrong. Provably and dangerously wrong. When you find a wrong answer you are explicitly disagreeing with the OP. If the OP refuses to ...
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Everyone should be able to remove chat posts (what comments become when pushed aside) at any time. Presently it is only allowed after asking a moderator and when he agrees to do it (most of the time they don't).
As for this, I do agree in that it should be possible to remove chat posts that used to be comments, in exactly the same way as it was possible to ...
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I don't think comments are a problem on unix.SE.
It seems to me that they're deleted less aggressively here than on other sites, which IMO is just a good thing. There's nothing inherently wrong with clarifications, anecdotes, additional perspectives, or even mild jokes sticking around.
I also don't think they should always be incorporated in posts or deleted....
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Comments can be difficult, in my opinion. Some people use them to educate the owner of a post about something that the owner missed or possibly doesn't know, in the hopes that the owner learns and improves the post on their own. Others here simply edit the post directly to make actual improvements -- for robustness (standards) or safety (quoting), for ...
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