I constantly see answers that should be comments actually. Again and again and again. Is it just a bad luck of me?
Yes, the UI is broken and there are various issues reported on it such as space for entering comments, minimal formatting is not possible when entering comments, converting between answers and comments interface is broken and no voting for comments. The broken UI leads to comments like "I would have voted for your comment, but I cannot.". The current broken UI leads to the misuse of answers input areas for comment input areas.
I remember on some reported CQ issue they tried to claim they were trying to be mimic the old style stackoverflow instead of what Answers actually had previously. The designers missed the point all those +! in statckoverflow comments means people want to vote for comments.
Answers and comments should have the same UI power, so users can actually concentrate on the correct usage instead of being frustrated using CQ comments. I know I use comments less after the conversion to use the CQ framework.
It's because people don't understand the difference. I tend to agree, I keep seeing answers that really should be comments.
Sorry I messed up with accepting answers. There's no way to accept more than one answer. (
Yes, another brokern feature that was in Answers and not in the new Answers. Another case of trying to mimic stackoverflow instead of what they had before. I think this issue was brought to like on a previous Answer related to the broken features in the CQ Answers.
Thanks, Norman! So it's not just me. ) It would be nice to know if Atlassian plans to do something about it. There's great answer https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/9394138/answers/9878126 by @Joe Clark [Atlassian] on "Are you happy with Confluence Qs as a replacement for Answers?". But I don't see this issue there.
Actually, I think you got the right answer marked, Norman's answer was much better.
I would fix more of these if I could just drag and drop the new answer onto another answer to mark it as a comment, or to the bottom of the existing thread if that's where it belonged. Then maybe if the author of that answer got a mail saying "your answer was turned into a comment", they might be suitably chastised and not do it again.
Rip, The comments UI issues was not deemed high enough to make the cut. As you might be able to tell from these responses and the responses in the answer you noted, that changes to CQ are moving too slowly for everyone. Jamie, I like your UI idea a great deal.
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