Hello,
On support.bioconductor.org, we've seen a lot of instances of people
using the answer box when they should be adding a comment on an existing
answer. I don't necessarily blame uses, since the "Add your answer" text
box is far more obvious than the "add comment" button on an existing
answer. However, as far as I can tell, it's impossible to use the
moderator tools to convert an answer into a comment on another answer or
comment, so when I see this happen, I just have to leave it as is, since
converting the answer to a comment on the question would just make
things even more confusing and out-of-order. So, given that this is
probably the most common moderation action that I would want to do,
could this feature be added to the moderator tools?
Also, I will note that this problem happens almost exclusively on
whichever answer is listed last, i.e. the answer with the "add your
answer" text box immediately below it in the position that one would
look for a "reply" text box. For answers that are higher up, useres
almost always find the "Add comment" button since they are not
distracted by an existing text box. So I think we could greatly reduce
instances of this issue by putting a much clearer visual separation
between the last answer and the "add your answer box", and maybe doing
like StackOverflow does and popping up an "are you sure you want to
answer your own question" dialog when a user tries to write in the
answer box for their own question.
Thanks,
-Ryan
P.S. I hope bioc-devel is the right place to ask about how to do
moderation on the support site.
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