I have only 1 reputation, and I see on all questions "add a comment" link.  However when I click it, I get:     You must have 5 reputation to comment   It means I can't really comment. So why show me the link in such case?
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The comment link should be always visible. For users without enough rep to comment, clicking on it should give a nice popup, just like those on the vote buttons, informing them that they need more reputation to comment.
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I have been viewing a lot of first posts from new users. I often see answers such as "thanks", or "me too", or they are asking a different question altogether. I like to point out the fact that they will eventually be able to comment their opinions and upvote answers that they like. So I would like to have a comment such as     Hello user, and welcome to [main]. It is great that the answer helped you, however, that is not the purpose of adding an answer. Soon enough, with just a little bit of work, you will gain [help/privileges/comment] and be able to comment and upvote answers that help you.   [privileges] would link to the site's privilege page, and /comment would link to the page in privileges that talks about commenting. Hash tags could be used to indicate any section of the privileges page. , because each privilege is a different page, the magic links would have to be slashes. For example    - Comment page  - Established user  - Protect Questions   This would work similar to the FAQ magic link comments
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You require a reputation of 50 to leave comments on others' questions/answers; the FAQ simply states this as a fact but does not explain it. I'm a new user and I have identified this as an issue very quickly through my own experiences so far. Looking at other questions seems to also provide justification against this 50 reputation requirement for comments on others' questions/answers.      In my own experience, I've seen a few questions like "how do I do x?" then the same poster has answered with "in the end I did it like this: ..." where their solution was perfectly sensible, but there may be some gotchas to watch for - in this case I want to vote up their answer and/or comment on it to point out the potential gotchas, but I can do neither!  To me all of the above seems justification against this rep requirement to comment, so what is the counter-argument and justification for it?
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Comments can now be upvoted and flagged. How do those features work? Do users get rep for their upvoted comments? Do upvoted comments have any effect on comment sorting? And can users see their own comment upvote number somewhere?  Related:  The  about comments
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Is there a way to view the site without having to look at reputation information? I do not want to track my rep information or see anyone else's.  I think that'll let me focus more on the questions themselves.  Is anyone else interested in this feature? I don't see anything on Stack Overflow itself, but are there any add-ins or  scripts that do this?
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I just went to comment on , saying something like "hey thanks that solution worked for me; You know anything about extending it to ?"  I was confused why I couldn't find any sort of "add comment* button, and it took me an annoying bit of searching just to find out why. :/  So could us new users see a notification like:     you need a minimum of X reputation to comment on questions that are not your own, and on answers that are not to your own questions   in the space where the add comment button would be?
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I understand that reputation can be gained by answering questions. However, it seems that more often than not the questions do not contain all the required information to give an answer. Since new users can not comment questions and ask for more details, this creates a sort of catch-22.  Any good advice on how to get initial reputation, given the new user restrictions?
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Why can't I give more than 500 reputation as a bounty at a time? The system won't let me choose an option more than 500.  Also, how were some users able to do so? On  the OP has given a single bounty worth 550 rep, but at the moment I have 844 rep and I can't give any more than 500 rep on a bounty.  Can you please tell us if this is a bug or not?
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I propose allowing posting new comments on any post I already have comments on, even if I drop below the rep threshold for the comment-privilege (50 rep) later.  And maybe also always allow responding to any ping (editors, dupe-hammer-wielders and mod-closers can be pinged even if they never commented).    Background: I recently made  on a post. Shortly thereafter, I put bounty on another one of my questions, which brought my reputation below 50. Then, when  was posted, I was unable to respond because of the requirement that I have at least 50 reputation to comment.
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I noticed today that the reputation summary on  is displaying only one line:      Normally, it should display four lines, such as in my Stack Overflow profile:      The bug is reproducible in other profiles of users that also participated in the . Here is a screen shot for one of those participants:      I do have a lead on the cause, but I don't have it pinpointed. It seems to be happening to those users who have hit the rep cap (200 points), and also have other activity that, because of the cap, does not count.  For example, I have 5 events under "yesterday" that do not have any associated points:
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I am trying to send a message to the moderators because the last message that was sent was from me. The message I see is      "you cannot post an additional message until a moderator has   responded"   I had a follow up question. The moderator said "Your reputation is set to 1 for the duration of your suspension. It'll be restored to your proper reputation once the suspension is over.". I responded "Alright, thank you". But because I responded already, I could not send any sort of follow up today. My suspension is over and my rep on SO is still 1.
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I have previously tried asking questions as simply as possible but they have been blocked like in the following link    So owning up to my mistake I tried posting a detailed question but table tags are not available in here to format my sample dat ; so I went for images and alas it tells me that I need atleast a reputation of 10 to post images!   Please somebody help me to post my question.
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I logged in today and saw that 15 of my reputation points had vanished. When I opened the reputation tab, I noticed that even though at the top it showed -15, it didn't list exactly where or how my reputation went. Even the reputation counts for today and yesterday show nothing. Is this a bug of some sort?
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I just read  where he mentions that 50 rep should be enough for a user to have learned not to post "+1 AWESOME ANSWER!!1" comments.  Well, that got me thinking, I post a fair few "+1" comments, and now I feel shame.  Sometimes I do it to:   Highlight the good part of an answer Add something I hope has value Let a user know that I really think they went above and beyond In a young SE site, leave a marker for other new users to notice especially good answers   What makes a good +1 comment, and when should I just keep it to myself?
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I was reviewing on , and I faced a weird thing. I can review "Close Votes", "Low Quality Posts", and "Suggested Edits" if I reached my daily vote limit, but I can't for "First Posts" and "Late Answers". Why?    If they just deserve an upvote/downvote then they should not include in the review system. But if we can improve them through leaving comments and by editing the posts then why can't we access them?
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Note: If you're looking for a simple explanation as to why comments aren't required on downvotes, see .   I used to get "upset" (though that is too strong a term) when I got downvoted without comment. If my answer isn't good enough then I'd like to know why. Not only does it improve the answer for the OP but it improves my knowledge too.  Where the down-vote has been explained I've found it useful &amp; it has improved my answer, or forced me to delete the answer if it was totally wrong.  So is there any way we can encourage people to leave a comment? Perhaps they don't lose rep if they explain their down-vote?  I must admit though that I haven't always explained my down-vote either so you could call me a hypocrite. I've also grown a thicker skin over the months of using SO (it seems to have come with the higher rep score ;-)), so I'm less bothered about this now.
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The description states:     earn 150 reputation points on three different sites (not including Stack Overflow) within 15 days.     I have 3 questions:   Does this mean that if I earn 150 reputation combined on 3 sites, eg. 100 rep on Meta Stack Exchange and 50 rep on Ask Different, I would get this badge? Does Meta Stack Exchange count? Is this being awarded now since it states 'within 15 days'?