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Before I became a moderator I would flag a single comment as no longer needed and moderators would remove the entire discussion. Flagging more than one comment isn't necessary for users. And as the system supports declining all of the flags by declining one flag, you can more easily have the negative effects of declined flags effect your account.

I personally don't believe the exchange was:

1. Obsoleted by age. Where comments on older posts can become outdated. For instance, if technology changes a decade after a comment is posted. Or,

2. Conversational. As one user was telling the answerer that the answer was not an answer and should be a comment. The answerer indicated it was an answer. This was relevant to the post.

When flagging for a moderator you sometimes are rolling the dice. Different moderators can see different situations in different lights. I do not think the comments should be deleted.

Before I became a moderator I would flag a single comment as no longer needed and moderators would remove the entire discussion. Flagging more than one comment isn't necessary for users. And as the system supports declining all of the flags by declining one flag, you can more easily have the negative effects of declined flags affect your account.

I personally don't believe the exchange was:

1. Obsoleted by age. Where comments on older posts can become outdated. For instance, if technology changes a decade after a comment is posted. Or,

2. Conversational. As one user was telling the answerer that the answer was not an answer and should be a comment. The answerer indicated it was an answer. This was relevant to the post.

When flagging for a moderator you sometimes are rolling the dice. Different moderators can see different situations in different lights. I do not think the comments should be deleted.

The first issue is that only one flag was needed, moderators will clean up as many comments as necessary for 1 flag. The system seems to support this because only one comment needed to be declined for all of them to be declined. When I have flagged a single comment as no longer needed I have seen moderators remove entire discussions.

The second issue is that this was not conversational, one user was telling the user that answered that the answer was not an answer and should be a comment. The poster indicated it was an answer. This was relevant to the post.

The third issue is the age of the post. Many comments on older posts might be outdated due to changes in technology; that wasn't true in this case.

Before answering this question, I had to check the answer to see if there had been a flag indicating that it wasn't an answer. This was not the case.

Before I became a moderator I would flag a single comment as no longer needed and moderators would remove the entire discussion. Flagging more than one comment isn't necessary for users. And as the system supports declining all of the flags by declining one flag, you can more easily have the negative effects of declined flags effect your account.

I personally don't believe the exchange was:

1. Obsoleted by age. Where comments on older posts can become outdated. For instance, if technology changes a decade after a comment is posted. Or,

2. Conversational. As one user was telling the answerer that the answer was not an answer and should be a comment. The answerer indicated it was an answer. This was relevant to the post.

When flagging for a moderator you sometimes are rolling the dice. Different moderators can see different situations in different lights. I do not think the comments should be deleted.

The first issue is that only one flag was needed, moderators will clean up as many comments as necessary for 1 flag. The system seems to support this because only one comment needed to be declined for all of them to be declined. When I have flagged a single comment as no longer needed I have seen moderators remove entire discussions.

The second issue is that this was not conversational, one user was telling the user that answered that the answer was not an answer and should be a comment. The poster indicated it was an answer. This was relevant to the post.

The third issue is the age of the post. Many comments on older posts might be outdated due to changes in technology, that wasn't true in this case.

Before answering this question, I had to check the answer to see if their had been a flag indicating it wasn't an answer. This was not the case.

The first issue is that only one flag was needed, moderators will clean up as many comments as necessary for 1 flag. The system seems to support this because only one comment needed to be declined for all of them to be declined. When I have flagged a single comment as no longer needed I have seen moderators remove entire discussions.

The second issue is that this was not conversational, one user was telling the user that answered that the answer was not an answer and should be a comment. The poster indicated it was an answer. This was relevant to the post.

The third issue is the age of the post. Many comments on older posts might be outdated due to changes in technology; that wasn't true in this case.

Before answering this question, I had to check the answer to see if there had been a flag indicating that it wasn't an answer. This was not the case.