Timeline for Why are answers being posted in the comments on the question?
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| Sep 7, 2017 at 7:47 | comment | added | ealy | I agree with your point. Here everybody (myself included sometimes, mainly for the fear to be sanctioned) is using the comments to post answers. In my opinion that's why: 1)They don't have to fear to be sanctioned, expecially if they they don't want their high reputation to be stained 2)They can receive upvotes in the comments without exposing 3) They can guess a lot without giving much thinking 4) Their comments-answers cannot be used after by others to give an answers for it may result a plagiarism. The result of all of that, for someone who wants to give and answer is frustration. | |
| Jul 17, 2016 at 21:56 | comment | added | ab2 | See the comments and the answer of @Dan Bron on this question english.stackexchange.com/questions/314812/… | |
| Jul 17, 2016 at 15:39 | comment | added | user140086 | @Mitch It is natural and understandable why some users could find the action objectionable because, if they posted the same answer as the comment, they might be seen plagiarizing it and this worry might discourage some users from posting an answer. That's the biggest problem. If that's the case, it harms ELU as it discourages users. And the comment box clearly asks users not to do that. I think the best way is post the comments and delete them in a few hours voluntarily, but how would it work? Who checks their comment regularly. This issue is one of the least important issues. | |
| Jul 17, 2016 at 13:44 | comment | added | Mitch | What's this 'rule' thing I keep hearing about? Avoid != Never. There are very good reasons for intentionally addressing the OPs needs in a comment. Also, what's to stop you from making a full answer out of a comment that you think is an answer? Is there a 'rule' against that? | |
| Jul 17, 2016 at 13:01 | comment | added | user140086 | Nice and thoughtful answer +1. I basically agree with your points, however, as you mentioned, old habits are very hard to break. And there are worse habits, e.g., upvoting blatantly off-topic questions and answers and providing dictionary service to a general reference question, to name a few on ELU than posting an answer as a comment. Good luck. | |
| Jul 17, 2016 at 10:41 | history | answered | David | CC BY-SA 3.0 |