I had left a comment on the question Does this site want to succeed? but it got deleted. Why?
asked May 17, 2015 at 17:08
1 Answer
It was just a routine cleanup of a misplaced comment. The comment was essentially just saying "+1" followed by a list of some meta posts you had also written. There isn't much more to it than that.
If someone has an answer or would otherwise like to respond to something being discussed, they should post it posted below as an answer. I can appreciate that sometimes folks don't really have an "answer" but want to jump into the conversation nonetheless. But comments were not designed to be the mini chat room or discussion section of Stack Exchange, so if a comment is not seeking clarification or otherwise suggesting improvements to the post, they are subject to being removed. It's just the way we keep the right tools being used for the right job.
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Are you saying that any comment posted with the intent of giving some links related to the question should be deleted? Commented May 18, 2015 at 14:23
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@FranckDernoncourt No, I see folks saying "we've already discussed parts of this <here>", no problem. If your links were somehow directly related to the question being discussed, I failed to see that. It looked to me more a random aside: As long as we're going to air broad grievances, here is some other stuff you can read. If there was a stronger connection than that, it didn't come across in the comment... which is why comments are not good for discussions in general. Commented May 18, 2015 at 15:13
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My links were related to "In my experience here, there has been a lot of negativity; down votes, not happy about this or that. To me it feels like the community is trying to set such high standards and narrow scope that it is strangling it's self.". Commented May 18, 2015 at 21:11
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3If @FranckDernoncourt is right, isn't his comment for adding relevant information?– OokerCommented Sep 30, 2015 at 17:44
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2@Ooker He'll never reply since the comment shouldn't have been removed since it did add relevant information. Commented May 16, 2016 at 1:22
http://web.archive.org/save/http://full_url_here, you'll have the backup just in case. I'm thinking to write some Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey script which will do that automatically when posting on this site as it seems a lot of things are removed from here too often for not clear reasons.