Questions tagged [comment-replies]
For questions about comment @replies, also called pings.
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No longer pinged after comments were moved to chat, despite an explicit @reply
I have been participating in a discussion of an answer on the Physics Stack Exchange. Until now, I have been receiving pings to my inbox whenever a new comment was addressed to me with an @reply. ...
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Why do some comment replies using the @username convention fail to work? [closed]
When I reply to a comment, I try to follow the @username convention. It almost always works fine. But sometimes it doesn’t work: i.e., I have to type out the username because it fails to appear in an ...
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Comment @reply name suggestions are missing from review queues
Normally when I type a comment and type @ followed by the first letters of the name of another commenter, there will be an autocomplete suggestion that I can press Tab to accept:
However, I have just ...
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Why doesn't the username in mentions not get auto-edited when the original one does? [duplicate]
I used to go by "d4rk4ng31" (um, as you might have already guessed, silly teenage years) which then I changed (long back, but I just noticed this as I am not a very active member anymore). I ...
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How can I troubleshoot email notifications from Stack Exchange sites not working?
I don't get email notifications when people reply to or comment on my questions on any Stack Exchange sites. This behavior is consistent whether I have a Stack Exchange site open in one of my browser ...
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I was notified of and viewed a comment, but the notification disappeared from my global inbox, and it isn't in the site's comment responses list [duplicate]
I commented on Session cookies seem to get lost and then, later while on another site, I was notified about Aaron Bertrand's comment reply. After responding several minutes later and, because I ...
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Is there some difference between typing a username and using the auto-complete?
When typing (or editing) a comment, after typing @ and the first letter of a username, we're offered the choice of usernames that were in the conversation and can input them into typing the whole ...
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Comment ping one of two users with same name? [duplicate]
I would like to address the first "Michael" in this comment thread
I found this at https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/43020/235923:
Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if ...
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Automatically inform newcomers of how comment @replies work
I often find myself informing the newcomers about the comment @replies, since otherwise the comments they write (when trying to reply to someone) often remain unnoticed due to lack of notifications.
I ...
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Can you @ping a user after they have deleted their last comment? [duplicate]
You can use @<user> to ping/notify a user that has commented previously. But if they have deleted their last comment do they still receive notifications if another user @-pings them in the same ...
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Can the author of a comment be added to the global inbox? [duplicate]
When another user @-mentions you in a comment this comment gets added to your inbox. The same happens when someone writes a comment to on of your posts.
Recently I knew that a certain user replied to ...
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Please autocomplete @User2 even if you only notify @User1
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I know that @replying to more than one user in a comment is not allowed as explained in this answer. I've always hated that and thought that there are valid use-cases for mentioning two ...
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Can you tag multiple people in a comment? [duplicate]
When replying to comments you can do @username to make sure they get a notification of your response.
But what should you do if you wanted to get the attention of to people? Would @username @username2 ...
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Autocomplete (@-tab-complete) of a username sometimes fails
When we comment about others' answers or questions, we may want to notify the other user. As far as I known, we can type @username_you_want to mention the user you want get in touch with.
Most times ...
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Will a user be notified when I @mention a user while editing a comment? [duplicate]
For example, if I forget to tag/mention a user in my comment under a Stack Overflow question or answer and I edit the comment to add the tag, will the tagged user then also be notified?
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Can we make it possible to tag more than one user in the same comment? [duplicate]
I know there must be a good reason why the one tag limit must be in place, but I can't really see a good reason why. From my perspective, I often would like to reply to two or more users with the same ...
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Is using an underscore as a space in @user_name a valid practice? [duplicate]
Is using an underscore in user mentions as a replacement for a space a valid practice, and if not, then why? It feels obvious for me to do so, however the help on using @username does not say anything ...
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Pinging etiquette
Say somebody gets annoyed and writes, "Don't ping me again." (In a discussion below a post.) I'll try to reconstruct the approximate situation (this part of the comment discussion was removed).
A: ...
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Why can't I comment back when my question has been commented by others? [duplicate]
After asking a question in Earth Science using a guest account, I have signed up using the verification link in my mailbox. But now logging into the same mail, I cannot comment back on a comment asked ...
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Add a reply to comment button or @ autocompletion when using Chrome on Android [duplicate]
Currently there is no comment button or @ autocompletion when writing a comment in reply to another comment on Stack Exchange for mobile Chrome on Android. It would be a good time saver to have this ...
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Why is there no autocomplete for pinging editors?
I hope this example shows why autocomplete would be useful beyond the comfort of the commenter:
I recently had an issue where someone edited a post (which I'm not the author of) only to add one extra ...
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Changing placeholder of comment box for adding @ pinging info
Proposing a different approach to what I think enable ping completion for all comments wanted to achieve. New users should know that @ pinging in comments exists, and get educated on how to use them ...
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Problem with punctuation and removal of post owner usernames on comments
I found out today that if you have a user’s name with an “@“ in a comment on that user’s post, it removes it. For example,
@PostOwner Your post is very nice.
becomes
Your post is very nice.
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In the case of users with the exact same name, how do comment replies work?
My username isn't too specific (Jasper). Every once in a while, I come across someone else with the same name. And sometimes, we even comment on the same question or answer.
Now, I don't mind all ...
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Use comment @reply to contact reviewers
With respect to this meta post on SO, Are answers which drip feed information in subsequent comments acceptable?, wouldn't it be a useful feature to be able to also contact the reviewers of both ...
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Why cannot we comment-reply more than one person in comments, and anyone in questions/answers? [duplicate]
I think the comment-reply (ping) mechanism is way too limited. You can only reply to one person in a comment. And you can't use an @ whatsoever in questions and answers. It just doesn't make sense to ...
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Autocomplete for @ reply to the person who marked a question as a duplicate [duplicate]
When commenting on a comment below a question, I can use the @, and the first letter of the person I want reply to, and get a little pop-up with their display name in it. If I use that, the person ...
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Missing item in inbox [duplicate]
There seems to be an inconsistency in my inbox. There has been a message from a user (under the form of a @reply comment) that I can see under the post and in the "responses" tab in my profile, but it ...
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Please make pending edit suggesters be @reply-able in comments
When reviewing suggested edits, it often happens that I'd like to say something to the edit suggester, but I can't. The ability to reply to them would be a way to solve edit problems much more ...
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How to ping users with the same display name in chat and in comments?
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To simplify writing, I'll simply refer "users with same profile display name (case insensitive) user" as "users" (with quotes), and an arbitrarily user picked from "users" as "user" (with ...
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Using possessive apostrophes after users' names [duplicate]
What's a word that means deflect blame?
In this post I posted a comment in response to another. In the post, I tagged someone's username, but in its possessive form. I put a space in between the ...
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How do I send an automated link, in chat, to invite the asker to join me in a chat room for further discussion? [duplicate]
I am prominent on a particular exchange where one user has taken it up on themself to post regular posts trying to pick at basic rules on how Stack Exchange works. I have pointed out that it is a Meta ...
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Why are comment response notifications limited to one user name? [duplicate]
There are times where multiple users commented to a question I posted. Most had very useful information or suggestions and I wish to thank them all at once or ask them all the same question that is ...
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Enable @ping completion for all comments
I think it would be good to enable the autocompletion for @username also for comments which don't need a ping, e.g. first comment to a Q/A or if only the OP and one more user is involved in the ...
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Can't @ reply to users with special characters in their username
I can usually @reply in comments just fine, but in a recent questions of mine I noticed that typing @[character] doesn't show me any autocomplete results at all!
The user in question has a ł in the ...
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How many of you agree that at SE, "We don't help people. We help the Internet by creating useful information." [closed]
Much to my dismay, I read this comment on Meta:
"We don't help people. We help the Internet by creating useful information."
I need to know what portion of SE users feel this way. Then I must figure ...
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@Replying to non-alphanumeric usernames
The background to my question about comment replies has several parts, but I essentially have a single question.
When using StackExchange on my mobile, it does not provide me with autocomplete when I ...
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If an @ is not going to notify a user, there should not be auto-complete for a user handle
This is a followup to a question I asked on meta.stackoverflow.com. The gist of it is that I believed the sequence .@ should notify a user, while as the accepted answer indicated, it should not.
What ...
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Reply button as standard feature for comments? (see from a new user's standpoint)
I do see that there are many questions about having a reply button but they all refer to this question for the answer:
"Reply" links on comments
This link allows users to install a script ...
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Should we let people know that their actions are being discussed on meta, if so what's the best way?
Whenever I post something on SO meta about a particular post or review, I ping the people involved with that post or review. It seems to be the equitable thing to do, allow people to speak up, if ...
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Non-Western charset username @reference [duplicate]
I just added a comment here. The poster (眠りネロク) has a non-western username, which I copy-pasted into the comment (I don’t have Japanese language input ability installed on my PC).
However, I notice ...
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What is the proper way to reference a user in comments? [duplicate]
If I am commenting and want to reference another user, sometimes when I use @[username], I get a clickable pop-up with their username, other times I do not.
Some Meta questions indicate that @ isn't ...
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Insta-delete obsolete comment if I was the one @replied
Typical scenario:
I leave a comment on a post pointing out some issue or requesting some sort of clarification
Someone comes along and addresses the issue or fixes the post, then leaves an @reply for ...
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How to propagate my display name change to the @name comments? [duplicate]
I changed my display name.
Now all comments still refer to my old @name. Can this be fixed?
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Add ability to reply to specific comment
Sometimes someone may post more than one comment on a post. If I am referring to one of their older comments it is hard to tell which one I am responding to, without going into details in the comment (...
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I want to reply to a mod commenting on a locked post. How? [duplicate]
My post was deleted and I want to reply to the mod commenting on it after deletion. How can I do this?
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Why are @ tags not working? [duplicate]
Yesterday I posted a question on the Mathematics Stack exchange. I received some answers to which I added a comment, trying to apply an @ tag for the user that wrote the answer. However, when I ...
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When someone deletes a comment, suggest to flag for deletion of dependent comments
I've noticed many times, that when reading a sequence of comments, some of them don't make any sense. It happens if someone delete his comment, and replies to it become meaningless. The recommended ...
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Unable to reply to comments directly [duplicate]
We can't reply to a comment directly, There must be a reply option under each comments, So that if you want to reply to a comment, you click on that option, rather than commenting again!.
(for example:...
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Why am I getting someone else's notifications?
I recently got a notification in my global inbox for this comment supposedly directed at me:
I did not comment on this post, but I did edit it, so I understand from this excellent answer why I would ...
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