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| Jun 19, 2015 at 22:45 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @anongoodnurse The link was simply meant to show that if SE was more respectful toward user-content, they would make deleted content available to the user. Hence the issue is not flagging, but SE policy. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 22:38 | comment | added | anongoodnurse Mod | @FranckDernoncourt - Again, you baffle me. I am referring to comments. What does your link contribute (it's about questions and answers) to this discussion? A comment is not an answer, and there is no need to treat them equally. Personally, I always leave comments when I close questions. Also, I usually do so for answers. But this isn't about questions or answers. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 22:34 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @anongoodnurse My point is that I think it's extremely impolite to delete a comment or an answer without any warning. Flagging is not inconsistent, see When a user has one of his question or answer deleted, why don't you notify him about the deletion, and send the removed content by email?. I have flagged fewer than 10 comments to try to understand what the actual mod policy was, as it was unclear to me (and still is). | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 22:29 | comment | added | anongoodnurse Mod | @FranckDernoncourt - It is a non sequitur. What is your relevant point? You say deleting comments (without yet another comment) is rude, yet you flag often for comment deletion including for comments as answers. The inconsistency baffles me. Also, how other sites handle comments is not a model for how we do so. We follow SE guidelines generally, decide the particulars site to site. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:58 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @anongoodnurse In my experience, the percentage of deleted comments vary greatly from SE to SE. E.g. on stats you have to be very off-topic to have your comment deleted. My comment was a general statement. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:54 | comment | added | anongoodnurse Mod | @FranckDernoncourt - That's a bit extreme. Comments aren't answers. They are, on every SE site, treated as ephemeral. Also, your comment is a non sequitur. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:48 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @anongoodnurse I think it's extremely impolite to delete a comment or an answer without any warning. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:31 | comment | added | anongoodnurse Mod | Interesting distinction! I think that has the makings of a good meta question. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 17:03 | comment | added | Shon | I would like to add though, the deleted comments weren't intended to be an answer, rather clearly a response to a previous comment. It was in no way intended to be a thoughtful, deliberate archival answer. A comment on a comment or question, whether perceived to contain an answer, may need to be treated differently by moderators and recognized as something other than a vetted, supported official answer. Do you think there is a difference and should they be governed by different guidelines? If I meant it to be an answer, that's where I would have input it. | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 20:16 | comment | added | anongoodnurse Mod | Not a problem. Glad we're on the same page! There is a meta post about this (I had the same question): Answers in comments | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 20:13 | history | edited | Shon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 18, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | Shon | Thank you for the explanation and for the copy. I fully understand, now. In the future, I should back up my claims with evidence, studies, journals, etc., yes? And that probably would require more effort, time, and space, definitely indicating an answer, not a comment. Thanks for your patience. Sorry I jumped to the wrong conclusion, and for helping me to understand rather than simply down-voting my concern. The nature of this site is very different from all the rest, maybe the requirements need to be more explicitly spelled out somewhere that can't be missed, if possible? | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 19:56 | comment | added | anongoodnurse Mod | Full comment minus two sentences so that you can answer: Filtered cigarettes are less harmful than unfiltered. Organic tobacco is less harmful. Low-tar is less harmful. It will reduce risk, but whether it'll be enough for that person to avoid disease or death, difficult to say, that is their risk to take, and a person should be educated, not scared into doing what's best--for some choosing a less dangerous product is on their path to quitting, whereas if you try to make them think all cigarettes are made the same, they'll continue to choose the most harmful varieties. | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 19:36 | comment | added | anongoodnurse Mod | Your comment ("...Filtered cigarettes are less harmful than unfiltered. Organic tobacco is less harmful. Low-tar is less harmful. It will reduce risk... if you try to make them think all cigarettes are made the same, they'll continue to choose the most harmful varieties..." contains unsupported claims, a very serious problem on a health site. It is the policy of this site to remove comments which contain answers because they are unsupported. Reason: unsupported answers on SciFi or EL&U will not harm anyone; on this site, they can cause harm. We want users to answer; it's not competition. | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 13:16 | history | answered | Shon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |