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What is the purpose of comments?
I suppose my question is twofold (and is about the Q&A category only).
- What purpose are comments meant to serve?
- Should we have them at all?
The former question is one of information. What is their purpose? Or is that still being worked out?
The reason I ask the latter question is as follows. In my experience at MY, the comment area all too frequently becomes a dumping ground for whatever people wish to post and not risk being treated as an answer. (There, comments can be deleted only my moderators unless they're offensive, whereas answers can be deleted by others, too, if they've a net negative score. Also, comments can't be downvoted, which protects them from looking bad.) That's individual comments. And then comment threads, too, get long and off-topic, even if no one topic is of the type described above. Here, it can be even worse, since (as far as I can tell) comments cannot be flagged for moderator attention or deleted by non-moderators. They can't be upvoted either (which is probably a net good thing, but also means that the worse comments can't fade into the background).
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