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My comment wasn't posted when voting to close as "Other" as the final vote. Is this a bug?

This might be a duplicate of No comment posted when question is closed as off-topic because ... > other Reference question: Ballistic Coefficients in a Zero G and Perfect Vacuum I was the final ...
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Last Data Dump is completely missing ContentLicense for Comments

I noticed that in the latest data dump, the Comments.xml files do not provide a ContentLicense for any of the rows, even though it is available in SEDE. Here is an example of looking at the first few ...
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Styling of comment timestamps becomes similar to usernames when comments are expanded

When clicking the "Show N more comments" on a post the styling of the comment timestamps of other posts on the same page becomes similar to the styling of the comment author's display name. ...
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Rate limit for posting comments seems to not be enforced

According to The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide creation of comments is limited to 3 per 30 seconds. However, today I saw a user seemingly post a lot more comments than that limitation suggests. Since I ...
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Moderators can delete comments on any post but not undelete them prior to signing the moderator agreement

Is it expected behavior that an elected (but before accepting the agreement) moderator can delete any comment on the post, but unable to undelete them? Even for my own comments I got the error: An ...
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When editing an answer, the OP highlight on comments changes users when comments are expanded

When using the full page editor (like someone without editing privileges), I noticed that the highlight to show who is the "original poster" on comments will swap between the answer OP and ...
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Link in comments occasionally not formatted on MathJax-enabled site

Occasionally, links in comments that use MathJax do not show normally. The problem is reproducible, and browser-agnostic. It comes and goes depending on inserting a space around the closing $ ...
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Able to post comments on comment-locked questions by triggering the trivial answer conversion to comment script

The system has a feature where if one posts an answer with very short text and an internal link to another post on the site, it will not be posted as an answer, but instead as a comment, telling the ...
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Is it possible to manually update one's display name on comments/answers/etc. to avoid deadnaming? [duplicate]

Two months ago there was a question asking about whether it would be possible to implement some semi-automated tool for changing one's username in past comments, answers bodies, etc. I've recently ...
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Comment Overflow™ when there is long inline code in a comment

I was reading this question when I saw a bug with this comment: It is quite evident that the user who commented this included some code in his comment, but the comment just, well, overflowed. I am ...
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Comment notifications for close voters: regression from 2018?

According the the comment reply FAQ, it's possible to @-notify close voters in a very particular set of circumstances: For questions: The moderator or gold badge holder who closed or reopened the ...
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Warn new users to edit important information into the question upon their first attempt to comment on a question of theirs

2024/09: It's been more than 8 years since this post, and more than 10 years since this post. The latter has been tagged as status-completed. According to Slate, something has been done to alleviate ...
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Comment (or answer) notifications in the global inbox should include the author's username

I would like to see who left a comment in my global inbox like this: And also for answers: (Except, of course, I would like the actual commentor's name, not "The Person Who Left The Comment".) ...
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Comment authors are not getting migrated

Background: when question is migrated from site A to site B and the author doesn't have account in site B, their name will appear "gray" until they log in to site B and associate the ...
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