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> sometimes the comments and discussions are just as useful as the accepted answer ...but, mostly not. Mostly, they're quite useless. ...and I say that with a
by wokwokwok 3y ago
> sometimes the comments and discussions are just as useful as the accepted answer
...but, mostly not.
Mostly, they're quite useless. ...and I say that with a considered opinion, not a knee jerk of irritation.
SO is fundamentally a site where up voting lifts relevant answers and down voting sinks irrelevant stuff.
However, comments are a side-step into non-voting, non-karma related content, that violates that fundamental premise. Comments simply give people a way to game the system; you can say unhelpful useless things, and the worst thing that can happen is the comment is flagged for moderator review. You can answer the question without it being a 'real' answer... only now it's harder to find.
The benefit of comments is entirely lost by the way they are abused in practice.
...so, realllly, if you want to chat about the solution, then chatGPT is the way to go, not SO. SO was never the place for that.
So.. you know. It's not much of a loss really, compared to what you get with a chat bot that's happy to talk to you patiently asking dumb questions literally forever. :)