Timeline for Feature request - Let us flag our own comments
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| Dec 18, 2022 at 21:42 | comment | added | David Hammen | @uhoh I totally understand. It is weird (to me) that I can flag anyone's comment but my own (a) which must require special software and (b) which makes no sense (to me). I also understand that asking for a policy change on meta is typically confronted a brick wall of people. It is what it is. | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 21:34 | comment | added | uhoh | @DavidHammen about the downvotes: in my experience in the main meta, questions suggesting some kind of change are sort-of born with a cinder block tied to their ankle; unless they demonstrate compellingly that the status quo is causing harm and cite compelling specific examples, they usually tend to sink quickly. About meta downvotes: here they don't mean the question shouldn't have been asked, or that it's not a good question, it's just meant as a straw poll on the proposed change. I think it just means that folks don't think this should be implemented. Good or bad I think that's what happens | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 14:49 | comment | added | Joe W | @DavidHammen On Meta downvoting is used to indicate disagreement with a suggestion and that is how it appears to be used here. Just because you see your question one way doesn't mean that others see it the same way. | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 14:46 | comment | added | David Hammen | @JoeW That lack of comments on downvotes issue is a separate issue. The powers that be have asked us to be polite and welcoming. OTOH, people whose questions or answers receive downvotes regularly complain about receiving no comments on the downvotes. When I see a question or answer that is downright ridiculous (yes, there is such a thing as a bad question), I have become more likely to downvote but not comment so as to comply with the "be polite and welcoming" rule. We're not even supposed to say in our comments that we downvoted. (People who do comment tend to ignore this implied rule.) | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 14:41 | comment | added | Joe W | @DavidHammen How does that change that people disagree with the idea of flagging your own comments which you have full control to no post or to delete? You asked why people would downvote and I gave a reason. Your response is also why people don't leave feedback on questions that they downvote because people tend to complain when they don't like the reason. | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 14:39 | comment | added | David Hammen | @JoeW I am challenging why that special chunk of software exists. From my experience (the "keep it short and simple" rule), extraneous software is software that should be challenged and possibly (likely) should be deleted. | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 14:35 | comment | added | Joe W | @DavidHammen Because people disagree with the suggestion? | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 14:12 | vote | accept | David Hammen | ||
| Dec 18, 2022 at 14:12 | comment | added | David Hammen | Thank you! I don't understand why my question has received so many downvotes. It is a simple request: Let me flag my own comments. It seems simple; there must exist some software that precludes me from doing so. Why, and it should be easy to fix. I too have had this happen to me, getting drawn into hopeless convos. | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 7:18 | history | answered | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |