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At any rate, we could try to figure out a standard comment to use in these circumstances, and to suggest its use to the members of the community (with a pinned post or something similar). — Francesco Polizzi 5 hours ago

@FrancescoPolizzi There is already one thread which has some comment templates - although for another situation - questions more appropriate for MSE. There could be similar discussions for other suitable comments - or MO could to the same thing as they did on Mathematics, where various other sites, where there is a single thread where the comment templates are posted in answers: cstheory, TeX - Latex, Mathematics. — Martin Sleziak 2 hours ago

@MartinSleziak:thank you for the information. My suggestion is to make a very structured post/thread along these lines, and to suggest its use to the members of the community when voting to close. — Francesco Polizzi 1 hour ago

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