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Should we encourage / allow comments with helpful advice to questions we know will be closed?

As I commented, moderators are generally encouraged to delete comments that attempt to answer as these comments are often avoiding the voting mechanism. … tl;dr - I don't think answer comments are good or desirable. …
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Hey moderators: worse or better to flag a whole chain of comments?

That may be the whole thread, some comments, the comment, or none at all, but a single flag is sufficient, I never delete them from the mod tools. …
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A comment of mine seems to have disappeared

No idea of any specifics in your case, it may have been me or another, but comments get moderated out of existence all the time on most of the sites. …
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