Timeline for Criteria for determining if a post should be a comment or an answer
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| Mar 26, 2020 at 19:26 | history | edited | scottbbMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:15 | comment | added | Rob | There's a Q&A about editing the Help Center: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/279879/… - In addition to the "Tour Badge" there should be a "Help Reader" badge that shows someone skimmed the help pages and can then post or enter phone #s / URLs in their profile. Rules could be edited or emphasized and people ought to follow them, that way when the mods come to work there's not a lot of unnecessary work to do. I'm OK with the rules as-is and I'm OK with some refinements, as long as everyone rows the same way. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 14:17 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | Yeah, and in fairness, I'd except "we don't think there is a better option just keep doing what you are doing" I suppose. Just as long as the community is on board. The question was raised objecting that it seemed arbitrary, so I wanted to at least see if the community had any insight or particular desires to see things a certain way. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 14:13 | comment | added | scottbb Mod | @AJHenderson I can certainly understand the frustration. Ideally, mods' jobs in this regard should fall more towards responding to flags on comments, and doing cleanup after the answerment was asked to be moved to an Answer, etc., rather than doing the "dirty work" themselves. On the margin, I suggest leaning towards erring on the side of cleaning out comments, rather than leaving them to cruft up. I'm sorry that the answer boils down to "use your judgement. Good luck!" But that's why you get paid the big bucks. Oh, wait.... =P | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 6:24 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | At the same time, most of these scenarios are expected that clean up occurs at some point. That's still a mod that has to come through and clean it up. I removed some posts which appeared to be answers in comments that were ignoring that that isn't what comments are for (and counter to the specific meta consensus of why it's a problem) so I cleaned them up but then the argument was brought up about whether it really constituted an answer. I guess maybe it will have to stay as just being a judgement call, but I'd like some more community thoughts to make it feel less arbitrary. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 6:17 | history | answered | scottbbMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |