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How are we supposed to give feedback for poor questions if such comments are deleted?
The question https://software.codidact.com/posts/281517 is currently voted at -3. I wrote several comments to explain why, so the author can hopefully ask better questions in the future.
This morning, I found all but the first of these comments deleted without warning.
Alexei gave the following reason:
I have removed the comments that are not relevant. Please use comments to ask for clarifications or generally speaking, to improve the question.
Taken literally, this means that we are not allowed to tell people why a question is downvoted, because that's neither a clarification, nor intended to improve this question.
How are people supposed to learn how to ask better questions if we are not allowed to give them feedback?
Also, I spent quite a bit of time writing these comments, which is now wasted. If you disagree with my comments, could you ask me about them before deleting them?
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Providing feedback can be done using comments. However, these comments are supposed to add constructive criticism and/or links to relevant resources. Your first comment does exactly this and it is a useful one.
However, the subsequent comments seem to be a debate around available Wikipedia translations and how an answer would look like, rather than suggesting how to improve the question.
Never-ending streams of comments are not particularly useful. If you find the question not useful and your comment does not lead to improving it, you can just downvote and move on.
If the question is off-topic, it can be flagged to be closed.
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