Timeline for When to answer a question via a comment?
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| Oct 22, 2013 at 12:26 | comment | added | Maxim Gilula | Great, thank you for the information. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 12:21 | vote | accept | Maxim Gilula | ||
| Oct 22, 2013 at 10:14 | comment | added | user9072 | To complement @GerryMyerson's remark: if avoiding points is the only motivation you might consider instead to give the answer as an anwser proper and make it Community Wiki. See meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/493/… and the links for issues with questions answered in comments only. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 9:27 | history | edited | Kim MorrisonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2013 at 7:05 | answer | added | Todd TrimbleMod | timeline score: 15 | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 6:12 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | If, for whatever reason, you do not wish to accrue any points, either for this particular answer or in general, you might post an answer as a comment. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 5:29 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | If the answer can fit in a comment, then that's a reasonable indication that it might not be worth adding as a full-blown answer. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 3:16 | comment | added | Daniel Moskovich | Another case is when you think the question might be a bit trivial, so you give a trivial proof/counterexample in a comment, and either the OP realizes the question needs an edit, or the question is made obsolete. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 2:48 | comment | added | JRN | Another reason for answering in comments is that official answers bump up the question in the active list, but comments don't. Some people get annoyed if questions are bumped often, and so some choose to answer in comments if they feel that their answers are not too important. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 2:46 | comment | added | JRN | Note that I just answered your question in a comment. I did this because I felt that my answer did not address your question completely. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 2:46 | comment | added | JRN | One possibility is that the question has been closed, and so cannot accept any more answers, but can still accept comments. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 2:14 | history | asked | Maxim Gilula | CC BY-SA 3.0 |