Timeline for Using ROT13 in comments
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 8:22 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 11, 2018 at 17:55 | comment | added | Rubio Mod | I agree that answers-in-comments are inappropriate. But comments on questions might want spoilers if they are specifically asking for clarification or correction to the question regarding an aspect of the solution. This is what comments on questions are for; it would be unfortunate if the only way to give that feedback would be spoiling the puzzle because we disallow rot13 comments. As for comments on answers, putting solutions in spoiler tags is of little benefit if people then give the answer away in unspoilered comments. I'd much prefer to preserve the mystery for future would-be solvers. | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 17:47 | comment | added | Rubio Mod | I think you've mischaracterized the "policy" post you linked to. It's not a policy, it actually gives recommendations on how/where rot13 comments should be used, and its author created a browser addon specifically to handle rot13 comments; reading into all of that a policy against rot13 in comments seems a stretch. The other answer to the question opines "Our policy should be to require either mentioning rot13 or linking to rot13.com in any comments that have rot13ed text - preferably, both", roughly mirroring the policy-suggestion in the question itself; if we have a policy, that would be it. | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 11:29 | history | answered | N. Virgo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |