Timeline for When to answer a question via a comment?
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| Oct 22, 2013 at 12:21 | vote | accept | Maxim Gilula | ||
| Oct 22, 2013 at 11:51 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @Carl Those are good points, but I don't equate an easy (easily answered) question with a poor question. If the question is very easy, I might answer in a comment (with an option of expanding later into an answer) until I see that others find it worthwhile for MO; i.e., until then I might be hedging my bets by answering quickly in a comment. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 9:07 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | I often sketch a one-sentence answer in the comments if I don't have the time to write out a full answer (I am very slow to write them), but I can still regard the question as a good one and deserving of a full answer. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 8:27 | comment | added | user25199 | Also, it is not clear that such points are cheap and easy - answers to a poor question are unlikely to gain many votes. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 8:27 | comment | added | user25199 | I think there is some danger in automatically inferring that the commenter thinks the question is poor quality; it is also quite likely the answer is very incomplete. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 7:05 | history | answered | Todd TrimbleMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |