Questions tagged [convert-to-comment]
For questions related to the feature to convert answers to comments, either automatically or by a moderator.
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Don't automatically convert answers to comments
It appears the system will automatically convert every short answer containing a link, into a comment. This is bad design. I wrote a short answer that is self-contained and perfectly acceptable as ...
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Transifex missing a string about automatically converting answer to a comment
When system automatically convert my answer to a comment, I get the string "Your answer has been automatically converted to a comment", untranslated. I wrote a bug-report in ruSO meta, but a ...
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Able to post comments on comment-locked questions by triggering the trivial answer conversion to comment script
The system has a feature where if one posts an answer with very short text and an internal link to another post on the site, it will not be posted as an answer, but instead as a comment, telling the ...
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Improve workflow for converting a deleted answer into a comment
I was trying to convert a deleted answer to a comment via the moderator menu for the post. That didn't work, I get a message
answer deleted; can't be converted to comment
Because a (non-deleted) ...
GlorfindelMod
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Confusing "The Question" text in "convert answer to comment" dialog box
As a first-time mod in an SE site, I was confused by the extra text "The Question" that shows up after the question ID in the text field of the dialog to convert an answer into a comment:
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Edited answer converted to a comment produces "no edit history found for this comment" message
When an edited answer is converted into a comment, the comment will get the familiar pencil icon to indicate it has been edited, but if you click on it (an option only available to ♦ moderators),...
GlorfindelMod
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Wrong favicon on error page when trying to convert a deleted answer into a comment
If you are trying to convert a deleted answer into a comment, you will be redirected to error page.
As you can see, this page shows SOen favicon, but should use SOru icon.
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Difficult to lose the "converted to a comment" status message
If an answer is converted to a comment and then subsequently undeleted, and then deleted again (without being converted to a comment), the message beneath the post still reads:
If the answer is then ...
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How can a moderator prevent their answer from being automatically converted to a comment on meta site?
As discussed in this meta thread, I had some difficulty posting a valid answer to an undelete request on the open data meta site.
My question is, as a mod of the site, and the fact that it is the ...
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Allow users with less than 50 rep to comment if they've already commented [duplicate]
The title of my question could look weird at the first sight, but I will explain it to you.
Recently, I’ve seen a user that posted an answer to an old question, but their answer was actually a ...
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Hide 'convert to comment' from the mod menu on deleted answers
♦ moderators can convert answers to comments. Converting a deleted answer to a comment is not possible; you'll get a message
answer deleted; can't be converted to comment
This makes sense; ...
GlorfindelMod
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Inconsistent presentation of "Convert to comment" option
I have seen a couple of these situations, today, where I have a "bad" answer ("bad" for whatever reason), that has been flagged, which would serve better as a comment. However, on the mod flag page ...
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Prevent LQP review comments being moved when answer is converted to comment
Something I've noticed on several sites recently is that when a moderator converts a non-answer to a comment the automatic comments from the low quality posts review are moved along with it. The ...
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How can I prevent my "trivial" answer from being converted to a comment? [duplicate]
Now that the maximum tag length has been increased to 35, I've been spending some time browsing older retag requests to see which ones can now be completed.
On one such request, I tried posting the ...
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Post undeleted and converted to comment still shows as being deleted from review
I found this answer (only visible to 10k+ users on SFF, sorry) which had been deleted from review some hours ago but also flagged for conversion to a comment. I undeleted it and converted it to a ...
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