Timeline for Answers in comments are increasingly more common
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| Apr 24, 2021 at 22:20 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | Yeah, I was trying to put the most positive spin on the suggestion by none, but it would be a big change to the software | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 14:08 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @theHigherGeometer I agree with you, but note that this is not going to solve the problem by itself; just mitigate its consequences and create more work for the moderators. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 13:58 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @Federico I could imagine at the least a flag that's functionally the reverse of the "this is not an answer" one, and mod tool that allows a comment to be converted to an answer, the reverse of the one now existing. | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 6:21 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Comments being 'second-class citizens' is a deliberate design decision from Stack Exchange; if I understand correctly, you wish to revert it. This would probably face a lot of opposition in meta.se, and if it were applied it would produce a completely different system. If you want a forum rather than a Q&A site, then this probably isn't the right place. | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 6:10 | comment | added | none | One way to start is fix the issues mentioned in the main post. Include comments in the search engine input, make it possible to accept a comment as an answer, turn off the bots bumping the posts, etc. Once those things are out of the way, we can see where we are and whether more needs to be done. | |
| Apr 21, 2021 at 6:04 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Thanks for the input. Any suggestions on how you would like to fix the software? I think also the SE folks would be happy to have a method to make the UI more intuitive, too. | |
| Apr 20, 2021 at 22:22 | history | answered | none | CC BY-SA 4.0 |