It sometimes happens that I leave a comment on a post, meaning it as a reply to another user, but I forget to include a @reply string to notify the other user.  If I edit my comment (within the 5 minute window) to add the @reply string, will it cause the target user to be notified?
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I always wondered if users get notified about comments were their name was edited in afterwards.  Example:  I write a comment     See this link here   then I edit it to     @someuser: See this link here   Does the user get notified now?
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It would be nice if the @username autocomplete idea for comments could be extended to answer posts. Although, what I'd really like to see is a faster way to reference other people's answers to a given question, within your own answer. Say user 'foo' already posted an answer. I would like to provide a link/credit to foo's answer within my own answer. As it is right now, the only way (that I know of) to do this is by copying the link to their answer and creating a link within my answer. It would be a small time-saver if the @username notation could be used to do this instead, such that @foo would be automatically expanded to a link to foo's first answer in the current question.
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Possible Duplicate:             I faced this issue today when I was replying to a comment posted which used @Transaction annotation.     @Trevor: @Transaction and ... @Transaction   When typing this comment, I got a warning.
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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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If I ask a question, I would like it if I got a notification if someone as commented on any answer to the question I have asked.    So I ask "How do I foo".  Joe Answers "One way to Foo is to Baz."  Then Ted comments on Joe's Answer "You could also bar".  I would like to get a notification about Ted's comment.  The rationale being that sometimes if a question is getting a little old (I tend to watch my recent questions actively), a useful comment will be posted and I might not see it a timely fashion.
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It happened to me that I found a solution to an older question. This question was commented by many people with comments like "very interesting, important, ..." such that I thought that my answer has also some value. My answer was the only one. It was upvoted and accepted by the asker. However, I assume, that very few of the "commentators" saw my answer, because the system does not inform automatically about new answers.   I think it would have been helpful for me and the commentators when they would get informed. I could achieve this by adding my own comment to their comments, because this triggers a system message. My question is: would this action be considered admissible or not? Are there some other possibilities?
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I have an inbox item but it looks like the person who answered the question and made response comment deleted his answer. Is there a way to see his/her id? I can see only part of the text in my inbox. Can I see it completely? I wanted to let the poster know that his answer was working! Not sure why he deleted it. Here's what I see in my inbox:  comment on Delete consecutives values in ArrayList of Int &quot;Give it a try... That's called twice because I'm already at the beginning of the next ran...&quot; on
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Sometimes I find questions or answers by users and I would like to ask the user a specific question that doesn't (yet) fit as a full SO question.  Adding a comment with @username doesn't necessarily seem appropriate, as it isn't a comment on the question or answer per se.  So, can I somehow open a chat or contact that user without putting in a comment?
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Sometimes I leave a comment, then think better of it -- perhaps I decide to answer instead.  If I delete the comment, does the user still get notified that new comments are available or does the notification take this into account?  Are the comments hard-deleted or soft-deleted?
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There have been times when I have edited a post, left no comments, yet I have made mistakes that were pointed out simply as @comments. That's ok, but unless I actually come back to the post, I will never see that comment. Would it be possible to extend the comment reply functionality to also include the post editor? This might prove useful for some.
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These types of comment discussions are pretty common:        @AuthorX: In your post, I think you meant "you're", not "your". - user1234 35 mins ago   Oh, thanks. It's fixed now. - AuthorX 30 minutes ago      Once resolved, those comments are useless and noise.  As a user, I was always wary about deleting my own part in those conversations because it would leave the other user's comment looking orphaned or silly. But as a moderator, I have delete-access to both ends of the conversation.  Do you think users will take offense if these no-longer-relevant comment threads are summarily deleted as a matter of general policy?
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One screenshot will explain it the best:    It shouldn't be there - appeared right after posting the comment. When reloading the page it disappears so something goes awry with the AJAX handling.  Clicking it is reloading the existing comment(s) and open the new comment text box.
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If I add a comment but navigate (by mistake) to another page, I lose my unfinished comment (ok, depends on browser etc). On the other hand, when formulating a question, and I click on a link by mistake, I'm asked if I really want to leave.  It would be nice to have this warning for comments as well.
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Is there some way to contact another user by using their name in chat, so that they get notified?  It seems that when discussion starts in a comment thread, it is easiest, instead of migrating the entire set of comments, just to start talking about the topic in chat. But to get someone to go there, one continues in the comment thread to say 'hey, let's go to chat'.  Using @ThePersonsNameYouWantToChatWith in chat doesn't seem to give them a notification; how can one notify them that you are said something in chat to them?
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TL;DR: Chat should ping like comments do. If someone forgets to @mention me and we're the only two people with access to the room, I'd like to receive a notification. As a moderator, I increasingly find myself communicating with users for ad-hoc requests using the  feature in chat. A common use-case (one that recently happened, even) is where a user flags their post asking for it to be deleted, so I ping them in chat and ask if a disassociation would suffice. This is great and all, but I find it really difficult to keep on top of all these chatrooms floating out in space, especially for less frequent users, who may take a week to respond to me. The trouble is that these often-less-experienced users (who typically don't even have chat accounts in the first place) either don't know they can, or forget to @mention me. I try to check back every few days, but sometimes I forget, and sometimes a few days is just too long. This leads to conversations that go something like:  Matthew: Hey, I saw your flag. Would disassociation work? Other user: Yes, please do that. Other user: Yes Other user: Hello?  Which is, frankly, embarrassing. I don't want people feeling like their moderator team is ignoring them. I know I could theoretically keep on top of these, and I generally do, but I really don't like the fact that some could also slip through the cracks. I think this has happened twice for me, which seems like two times too many.  As a solution, I'd like to see chat notifications behave more like comment ones. In the process of a super ping like this, I always use private rooms. If the room is set up as private with only two users explicitly granted access (me, the owner and room creator, and the user as a writer), I want to be notified whether or not they include an @mention. I recognize that this may not be a one-size-fits-all solution, and there are lots of requests out there for subscribing to chatrooms and receiving notifications for every message posted, but I understand that's not a priority, and it would be overkill for this anyway.
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Meanwhile, in August 2009  as reason for comment flagging, and the comment flags show in the 10k tools. And  is on its way. Hence: I don't care for this request myself anymore. An explicit [status-declined] would be fine.    What about being able to set comments to auto-expire? Or, alternatively, set a comment to be removable by the author of the question or answer one comments on?  This way the communities would allow for some personal or funny comments (even like "Thanks") without those comments littering the sites forever. Or, when the original author is allowed to clean up, then comments that have been taken care of by editing the question or answer, could be removed.  Why?  As, , there's no way to send a personal message to other members, I find myself abusing the comments like some "poor man's private messaging system". I try to refrain from things like "Thank you", but sometimes I do want to point out something to someone. After a while (hours, days) I then  to remove them (hoping that no-one actually replied to them with another comment, like "Thanks, fixed it").  Like :    (I don't find this feature request very important (at all), I am quite impressed by what's been given us already, and I doubt there's a way to implement it without making things too confusing. Maybe I'm just trying too hard to keep things tidy and clean. Still, I wanted to share it, just in case someone comes up with something very clever...)
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Does the OP of a question get a message in the inbox when I update my answer?  Or do I have to make all the time a comment saying "@OP I updated my answer".  (Its a bit annoying when there are a lot of requests coming after the answer, and SO suggests to move the discussion automatically to chat)