Timeline for Removing useful but not immediately on-topic comments
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| Dec 15, 2014 at 23:22 | history | edited | user102 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:12 | comment | added | eykanal Mod | @suresh - Regarding the voting issue, again, that's how SO works.... via the voting mechanism. If someone wants to have a say, they can register their opinion by leaving posts or voting. Silence indicates indifference, and we cannot infer anything beyond that. Given that (as of the writing of this comment) the top answer on this thread has +11/-0 while this answer has +8/-6, I'm guessing that this answer is not as strongly supported by the community, while the top one is. Regarding flagging, I have nothing to add beyond my comments on your answer above; I think we'll have toagree to disagree. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 0:09 | comment | added | Suresh | @eykanal I fear a little bit of a double-standard in the logic of using 'voting' to indicate anything. If anything, I'd say that the community at large is quite silent on this matter. There are a few moderators in favor of deleting comments, Pete is strongly against, and there are a few others (like myself) who essentially support Pete's argument without reservation and have said so. More specifically, I agree with Pete's objection to your conflating "moderators felt" with "the community felt". As I suggested earlier, if the community "feels", let them flag comments, or otherwise say so. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 21:27 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | ...If almost no one upvotes or comments in support of this answer, then it will be more clear how the community feels. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 21:24 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | @eykanal: The community did not disagree with the approach in any meaningful way that I can see: there was one person who flagged the comment and one moderator who deleted it. That's a very low threshold for permanent deletion of content. And most of the reason I am posting this answer is so that other members of this (admittedly, small) community can respond to it. This site is still in a "beta" phase, which I take to mean that it is still defining itself. Under certain definitions I would like to participate. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 20:35 | comment | added | eykanal Mod | I appreciate that you have your particular approach to how you use this site (as you describe in (2) and (6)), but please do not confuse your usage of this site with how the community has come to use the site. You found the comments section a good place to have a one-on-one conversation, and the community disagreed with that approach.... you can see that by the upvotes on the earlier answers. Please be open to other models of usage for this site. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 20:29 | history | edited | eykanalMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 18, 2014 at 20:20 | history | answered | Pete L. Clark | CC BY-SA 3.0 |