In my opinion, comments under this answer can be qualified as conversational and not relevant to the post.
Posting the comments here (so that the context of the question will remain clear regardless of whether the comments will eventually get purged or not):
Why? char limit
– Pimgd 2014-10-17 14:45:24Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0
@Pimgd What? What char limit? See my update.
– maaartinus 2014-10-17 15:05:08Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Comment character limit.
– Pimgd 2014-10-17 15:37:25Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0
@Pimgd I see. No, I really wanted to write an answer rather than a comment as this is possibly more important than the other stuff. The most beautiful program is of no use if it hands out your password to everyone. I planed to add some more remarks, but there's so much already....
– maaartinus 2014-10-17 16:15:38Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0
The crux, of the dialog: "You posted it as an answer because of the character limit for comments? No, I really wanted to write an answer."
I applied a no longer needed flag to each comment, since it's described as
This comment is outdated, conversational, or not relevant to this post.
All flags were declined with no explanation.
Hence, the question: what sort of value these comments bear for a reader of this answer? If there's none and the comments should be removed, what should I have done instead of marking them as no longer needed?
