At a suitable reputation level, please could users be allowed to post short comments?  By suitable level I'm thinking of 7,500 reputation, and by short I mean 8 to 10.  At 7,500 rep, there hasn't been a privilege for a while, and there won't be for a while. On top of that, at that level users will know what is appropriate in a comment and what isn't.  Sometimes (not often) I find myself needing to post a short comment, and I end up adding ...... to it. Not only does it look unprofessional, it can confuse new users as to what the dots are there for.  I suggest 8 to 10 letters, because "Thank you" is 9 characters. I know that comments aren't meant to stick around, but sometimes it doesn't hurt to thank someone who edited in what you suggested - or tell someone that you've edited their suggestion in.
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Surprisingly it seems no one asked this before.   Not long ago I asked a question on the site, and in a comment I was asked "what version of jQuery are you using?". The answer is obviously less than 15 characters. So I had to do something like this "I am using version 1.9.1" instead of just "1.9.1".  I see this a lot, so why not allow shorter comments?   I guess the idea is to force people to give more thorough comments and not just small quirks, but I think it reasonable to allow users with a ceratin amount of reputation to give shorter comments, because sometimes it just makes more sense and you don't really need 15 characters
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Since my profile will be deleted in a few hours, this doesn't concern me, but the remaining people may be interested.  We know the already famous post: . One may be surprised that it has too few comments, especially highly negative ones. It seems that the reason is simple: moderation. About 4 hours ago I've written the comment there, but it wasn't published. Since I don't see it "awaiting moderation" anymore and I see much later comments published, it seems to be removed. The comment was along these lines:     There were a lot of things I didn't like in SO: too positively-skewed   reputation changes, generally-accepted reputation farming via   answering duplicates which were asked 10 times, extremely low quality   threshold for questions, "accepted answer" feature implementation, etc. and etc. Looking at the recent changes,   things will become only worse. I'm deleting my profile.   Now, the question is: why was it removed? Is it unfriendly? Sure, but I don't see why it should be friendly: we express our opinions, and my opinion is negative. Is it non-constructive? Well, to some extent, but definitely more constructive than:     Nice! I’m (hopefully) looking forward to passing the 10k mark   If there are rules for commenting (like 2. You DO NOT TALK bad about SO), I think it makes sense to publish them (and give an easily-found link to them in the blog). It also would be interesting to know how comment moderation is organized.
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Quite often a number of users will give similar answers to one of my questions. Sometimes someone will give an answer that is interesting, but does not really help with my question.  In all cases, I feel a need to thank the people who answered my question. It isn't always appropriate for me to upvote every answer, and I can only accept one answer. Giving a "thanks" comment on every answer appears to be frowned upon.  So, what's the etiquette?
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How was an anonymous user able to suggest ? (Warning: it has an offensive edit summary, which has been edited out in the screenshot below.) It doesn't seem to change anything, not even when viewing the Markdown source:    IIRC, if you suggest an edit and then immediately edit it again, but if the new edit doesn't meet the 6 character minimum it won't be accepted by the system. I just tried (while logged out) to retag this question and undo that in the grace period, but I get a message , as it should.
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Low-rep users can't leave comments. This leads to many users   While the rationale behind this limitation is understandable, seen from the outside, it looks  inane and bureaucratic. New users often have useful information to bring to the table. That information is often enough destroyed through deletion,  or has to be manually converted to a comment by a moderator.  How about, experimentally for a month or so, removing the limitation, allowing comments from (registered) new users, and countering the threat of garbage comments with    A comment review queue for low-rep users' comments A lowered flagging threshold for low-rep users' comments (say, 2 flags instead of 3 or whatever is required right now)   After all, features like  show that there's value to be gained from the input of the countless visitors who end up on Stack Overflow through Google, but are never going to become active members of the community. So why not use it?
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I joined a new community and asked a question ()  People are commenting &amp; asking questions, but I cannot answer them back. Even "Comment Everywhere" privilege requires 50 reputations and I have 101 reputations.  Am I missing something?
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From "6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast" at codexon.com:   Be the First to Answer. Even at the cost of quality. Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically Use obnoxious in-your-face formatting and lists. Be Aware of the 200 rep/day Limit Edit, But Don’t Edit Too Much Associate your other accounts   Courtesy of . Agree? Disagree? Walnuts? Cantaloupe?
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This is something I have faced quite recently. Someone very new to Stack Overflow asked a question, but is not able to communicate properly or exactly understand the answers that has been given for his question. He normally clarifies that in comments. But sometimes, it is necessary to have a one-to-one conversation with the one who has given the answer, so that the comments section is not populated with some trivial comments. So, I just felt that it'd be great if the reputation limit for talking in chat is removed.
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Nice hole in the system... You can pretty much say anything in a revision comment and it cannot be removed or cleaned up by a mod.  See  for an example.  Mods need the ability to at least remove the comment, if not the ability to edit the text of it.
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As a little feature to prevent comment spam, you can only enter one comment every 15 seconds. That's a very reasonable limitation, since you very rarely have a good reason to write comments that quickly. I've only seen it twice at all, I think, but both times it was extremely annoying.     Only 1 comment allowed per 15 seconds; timer reset.   The reason is that every time you hit the limit, the 15 seconds begin anew. You have no indicator that tells you when you are allowed to comment again, and if you hit enter after just 14 seconds, you're back to zero. Yesterday, I went through four cycles of not quite 15 seconds, counting in my head, before I got a myself a coffee and tried again afterwards.  I suggest that you do one or more of the following (in decreasing order):   Make the counter non-restarting Add a visible countdown Make it clearly visible that you can't comment right now You can actually increase the waiting time, if it is clearly visible and there is no unnerving invisible countdown. Actually, just remove all comment fields after one comment, and tell the user to reload the page. Just please don't have UI elements that look like they would work, but feel like they are trolling you.
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Simple request, really.  Can we add a detection for the     Please avoid extended discussions in   comments. Would you like to   automatically move this discussion to   chat?   prompt, so that if one of the users in the "extended discussion" has under 20 rep it doesn't appear?  I think a lot of the users this apply to will have low rep and it may take some back and forth to get good info out of them.  New suggestion: how about if a sufficiently high-rep user is clicking on the link, the low-rep user gets a field promotion sufficient to chat? Low-rep users are particularly prone to post questions to lead in this direction of needing to move to chat.
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5 edits on own posts per day, more for high-rep users (scales with reputation)    does not say anything about the exact number a high-rep user can have. Can someone tell me how many edits can a high-rep user have(not just on his own posts)?
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At least since four years and 15 months ago, a new rule was added all across the network known as Stack Exchange. The rule:  Comments must be at least 15 characters in length.  This rule has been  many times, but always results in . Some people have (had) figured out ways to  this long coveted rule. The stats: Stack Overflow has  comments less than 15 characters in length. Server Fault has  Meta Stack Exchange has  Super User has  TeX - LaTeX has  English Language &amp; Usage has  I also checked a few other sites, which tended to have less than 30. But when you have 131 sites, they sure can add up quickly! As you can see, by searching through those comments, 99% of them are useless, not constructive comments. Plus they knowingly or unknowingly broke the rule! So even if you find one that could be left alone, I still wouldn't mind it being deleted. Just like how questions from 4 years ago were on topic back then, but can now be closed for a close reason that just recently came out. Discussion: How should we proceed? Should we just leave it up to individual users to go through and flag these comments for a mod to review and delete? Should the team make comments that are less than 15 chars available for automatic deletion on one flag? Should the team just run their own query to delete all of these and be done with them? What do you think?
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I don't have enough rep to view deleted posts yet. So should I be able to see the first few lines of a post via the tooltip?: (ie. rolling over the titile of a post gives you a tooltip with the first few lines of the post, just like hovering over a question on the main question page)    Yes, it's spam, I know, but there are more legit reasons for flagging - should a low-rep user be able to see a bit of this content??
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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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I have answered two questions:       On the first one we've posted 12 comments, and on the second one only 7.   But - Why am I only getting the Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat? notice in the SECOND answer, while the first one has more comments?
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So I recently saw add comment (requires 50 reputation) on a deleted answer. After looking around a bit, it seems to be on all deleted posts now (only deleted posts, normal posts still say just add comment).  I'm sure it wasn't there before (I think it just said add comment (unclickable) or possible nothing).  It is also on , presumably the root cause is the same.  And yes, I do have more than 50 reputation (in case anyone was wondering).  Just to clarify, requires 50 reputation obviously shouldn't be there for users with 50 or more reputation. Choices:   Display nothing Unclickable add comment - probably not ideal Unclickable add comment (disabled for deleted posts) or something along those lines   FYI - You may be somewhat confused right about now if you can't  yet.