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Should we have a comment left behind when closing questions about building your own rocket (propellant)?
Recently, I reviewed this question and voted to close for the danger of constructing a homemade rocket engine. I left this comment:
Questions about dangerous amateur experiments, such as constructing ...
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"I’m voting to close this question because it belongs on Physics SE" is bad and here's why
There's nothing about another SE site like Physics that can make a question off-topic here!
SE has several close reasons for questions, one of which is that the question is off-topic.
For a few ...
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Should we have a policy for excessive story-spoiling in comments?
In question and answer posts there is a spoiler alert feature:
Below the question What is the maximum force a deep space spacecraft experiences after launch? there is an extended conversation in ...
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"Relevance to space exploration?" is "Guess where the invisible hoop is, then jump through it"
I've seen the comment
Relevance to space exploration?
Appear quickly, directly below several question posts over the past several months, and I'll explain why it makes me uncomfortable.
It creates ...
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When the real answer may only be in links within comments below the answer, what to do or say?
This answer to What radio frequencies were used by the Soviet space program circa 1961? (“Lost Cosmonaut” recording) contains a lot of relevant perspective, and is authored by a user who regularly ...
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How/where to leave a comment for a user with only a deleted answer?
I'd like to leave a message for the author of this deleted answer encouraging them to undelete.
I left the following comment below my question Where is the “antenna farm” from which this Soyuz ...
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What is a good reason to have many comments?
When is it ok to have extended comments? I have a question that has many valuable comments and don't want them to disappear into chat.
Why are to many comments frowned on again?
I would like to ...
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Who has the ability to delete other people's comments
There was a bit of a thread of comments on an answer I had posted to a question (here for reference). There was a bit of a rude exchange in the comments but it had come to an end (I think).
Some of ...
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Future editor comments, a terrible idea?
Check the revision history (under "edited <date>") to see the question.
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Between this line and the previous, there are many lines that are not rendered because SE think they are just HTML ...
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Deleting valuable comments without warning
I have noticed some comment cleanup action lately which wastes work done by others and myself posted as comments. I consider it a little bit irresponsible and impolite. If any of the mods do this, ...
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