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Gilles

00:43

Q: Drop "not constructive", combine "noisy", reword "rude" and "other" comment flags

The problem Comments are terrible; no one agrees on what they're for, or how long they should be kept. Comment flags are equally terrible, because if no one's on the same page as far as what should be posted in the first place then no one can agree on what should be removed either. On top of tha...

Heads up (mostly to the people here who flag comments) — Shog9 wants to sabotage comment flags

Q: Drop "noisy" comment flags from the moderator queue unless an answer has 5 or more comments

The problem There are a huge number of noisy comments, and they generate a huge number of flags. But, a large number of flags are raised on comments where they won't do very much good: if there's only a few comments on a post, removing one of them doesn't make an appreciable dent in the noise. ...

feature-request comments moderator-tools comment-flags

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Evil

21:07

It probably would be better to automate deleting them, as these are not permanent anyway...

2 hours later…

Bounty!

22:53

Bjarne Stroustrup's book Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ is a good book for people without programming experience in any language, but who are intelligent and willing to work hard to become serious programmers. It goes into greater depth on many concepts than most introductory book...