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Moderator Philipp selectively deleting on-topic comments on answer
You and another user had an extended discussion of about 30 comments.
This goes far beyond what is or should be on-topic or allowed.
A lot of those were nitpicks, borderline insults, misunderstandings ...
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Moderator Philipp selectively deleting on-topic comments on answer
What I deleted was a comment chain of 60(!) comments posted over a timeframe of just 2(!) hours.
It was a back and forth which didn't really go anywhere. First it was a "you are wrong - no you are ...
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Why are all the comments, including mine, deleted from this post about Trump?
I left a comment to participate in the discussion
I think this is where your impression of the purpose of this website could be incorrect. Let me point you to the "What topics can I ask about ...
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Moderator Philipp selectively deleting on-topic comments on answer
I don't see that he did anything inappropriate here. To review:
Deleting the chain of comments discussing the answer
That's obviously the right thing to do; as he pointed out to you, this is not a ...
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Why my comments and questions are repeatedly getting deleted?
Your comment was deleted because we generally discourage comments regarding up/downvotes - see the examples in the Help Center article on the commenting privilege:
When shouldn't I comment?
Comments ...
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Why are all the comments, including mine, deleted from this post about Trump?
There are plenty of reasons a comment thread would get nuked. excessively long, concerns have been addressed, etc... But it also happens, esp on contentious subjects, that it has degenerated into &...
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Moderator Philipp selectively deleting on-topic comments on answer
I am in two minds here - I agree with @Philipp that the comment chain should have been deleted, but at the same time I appreciate the need for the supposed erroneous claims in the answer to be pointed ...
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Why was my comment on free healthcare deleted twice?
As shown in your screenshot, the question specifically refers to free healthcare as
"health for free" from payed [sic] taxes
In other words, OP already knows that "free healthcare" is not ...
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Why were my comments under this answer deleted?
This question is already answered by the standard comment that is posted when a comment discussion is moved to chat:
Comments have been moved to chat; please do not continue the discussion here. ...
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Why were comments about a big error in an answer deleted?
The question was about "similar" situations. We live in a complex and nuanced world. You will never find two situations in the world that are exactly the same.
I removed that comment ...
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why was my comment erased?
Your comment was:
I just want to point out, for the sake of saving @indigochild some work, that "none of this provides a clear factual answer to the question".
Given that your response to ...
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Shouldn't a slight liberalization on comments policy be useful on Politics SE site?
Comments are not deleted because there is one harmless potentially useful comment. They are deleted because they get into lengthy. often contentious, discussion.
Do good comments get caught up in ...
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Why were the comments deleted rather than moved to chat?
Comments are ephemeral by nature on the SE network. They can get deleted without notice at moderators' discretion, for any reason. In particular when they're chatty or turn into an extensive ...
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What happened to my comments on this question?
I deleted some comments on that question, because they did not fulfill the purposes outlined in the description of the commenting privilege.
Remember that comments are for discussing how the question/...
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Do deleted comments exist anywhere?
Not for normal users. Moderators can see them, however.
One small exception would be that if the comment was posted, but not deleted, before the previous Sunday at around 03:00 UTC, it would be able ...
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Why were my comments under this answer deleted?
Comments can be deleted, at any time, for any reason. Usually they're deleted for reasons of moderation, but comments are not guaranteed to remain on the site.
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Why were my comments under this answer deleted?
Aside from the points raised in other answers, I think the comments you posted contain some questionable reasoning. I'll quote the comments here and explain why. I'll wrap it up at the end to make it ...
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Some comments were deleted with obvious bias
I removed your responses, and the responses to it, and the responses to the responses, and the responses to the responses to the responses etc. because they were not constructive. Remember the purpose ...
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Comment deletion policy should be changed significantly
Comments aren't meant to contain primary content on stackexchange.
They're intended to be used to improve the answers themselves. politics.SE seems to me to have a lot more discussion/answering/...
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Why were my comments deleted from this question about Israel?
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is trivially googleable
This is not a helpful comment. First, we don't close questions that are "trivially googleable". If you feel the ...
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Shouldn't a slight liberalization on comments policy be useful on Politics SE site?
The real reason not to post answers in comments is that comments are transient by nature. They are meant to encourage people to change their posts, not for discussion.
Note that this has been the ...
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Why were all of the comments on my question deleted?
If it's a comment on your question, it's mostly a comment to you.
Comments on StackExchange are ephemeral, if you've seen the comment, you can use it to improve your post. After that, it doesn't need ...
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Should there be a revision history for comments?
Basically, comments are second-class citizens within the Stack Exchange network. They serve only a single goal: to make question/answer better.
Comments also can be deleted with no notice — no, not ...
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Why was my context comment about Mark Judge deleted?
I think you are referring to this comment:
That David French National Review piece seems uncompelling. Mark Judge himself has written about his own terrible alcoholism, including, in his teens, ...
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Why was my comment on free healthcare deleted twice?
Your comment was flagged and subsequent deleted twice because it did not fulfill any of the purposes comments should have according to the help center article about the commenting privilege. It did ...
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Why was my comment correcting the accusations against Bill Clinton deleted?
Comments are considered disposable, and aren't suitable for extended discussions. Posting one comment voicing your disagreement with an answer in a constructive manner is fine, but anything other than ...
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Why my comments and questions are repeatedly getting deleted?
Those comments are generally flagged as "no longer needed" because it has rarely accomplished anything. Presumably, the question is getting downvoted because some people think it is too ...
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Why were my comments about the Dershowitz question inappropriate?
You were starting a discussion. As you should know by now, this website is not a discussion forum.
If you want to suggest improvements to a question, please do that directly. Don't do it in form of a ...
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Comment was deleted but not understanding why
I believe that this was the comment you are referring to:
To add a note as to why he is adamantly calling it the chinese virus. He stated it was a result of some officials in china at one point ...
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Moderator Philipp selectively deleting on-topic comments on answer
Just because comments are 'on-topic' doesn't mean they shouldn't be deleted for any variety of good reasons. I'm a big champion of the importance of comments, as can been seen in my posting history on ...
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