I truly loathe the 'Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat.' (air-quotes)"feature". Semantically, it does not even make sense: why move a conversation to chat? What makes a chat-room suitable for conversation?   I like the comments section. In fact, I've profited and learned more from the comments on answers (and often not the accepted answers) than from the answers themselves. Moving these fruitful and enlightening conversations kills them, perhaps even prematurely. The flow is broken, the context is lost, the conversation is dead.  Granted, my experience is mostly on StackOverflow. But take this question on Worldbuilding: . If ever there was a topic that invites extended discussion, surely this is it. I was going to comment on an answer in which a just-so story was presented as historical fact, but was blocked by 'Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat.'. I checked out this chat and it was dreadful. Only a few lines of the long answer were visible, and the context of the original question and the other answers was completely lost. It felt like a closet to which the undesirables had been banned, whiling away their exile in random shouting.  To me the whole concept seems flawed. Why would StackExchange discourage extended discussion? Why have a "chat" feature at all? The internet is replete with chatter -- why do we need to facilitate and encourage more chat? Why not encourage discussion?   I understand the need to curb idle, off-topic or overly personal chattiness, but then let's do that. Rename "Comments" to "Discussion" and flag the chatter, like we do offensive or aggressive comments. Gently chastise the chatterers with a cupcake, and reward those contributing to extended discussions in a meaningful way with a badge.
Over time, I've noticed an increasing practice among moderators of the smaller sites (i.e. not in the Trilogy) to move extended comment chains to chat, just because they're too long. Is this a good idea? In the past, I've taken the position on many occasions that I believe that comments serve two purposes only: clarification, and asking for clarification.  I take this position because as a mod I want the freedom to purge a comment trail that is clearly running off the rails without having to argue with anyone about politeness definitions. But that's not the same thing as two pedantic C++ language lawyers debating the finer points of &quot;undefined behavior.&quot;  I give wide latitude to such discussions, as long as the participants don't start throwing spears, because I believe they are instructive. The SE software even has accommodations for this.  Long comment chains are automatically collapsed, so as not to disrupt the Q&amp;A format of the post.  And moving a comment chain to chat is not even a move, really; to do an actual move, you have to perform the conversion, and then delete all of the copied comments from the post. Here is a recent example:  and it's accompanying . What I find amusing is that the OP's detailed POV about the term, where he floats a theory about why everyone thinks that &quot;bugged&quot; is not a thing (that conversation took place in the comments, and is now safely sequestered in the chat room) gets to stay prominently featured in his question, at the very top of the post. Now you could argue that the chat room is a better environment to have these discussions anyway, and you'd be right.  I could argue that if we're going to do that, then why not just automatically convert long discussions to chat rooms? The problem is not so much where the comments reside.  I don't understand why mods are taking it on themselves to fix something that isn't hurting the site (at least in my opinion).  In addition, every time I see this happen, the participants in the conversation immediately lose interest in it.  The only comment that was posted in that room after all the comments were moved is most likely this one:  It wouldn't surprise me if the folks using &quot;bugged&quot; to refer to a certain software quality are the same folks who refer to their programs as &quot;codes&quot; and who believe textspeak is the pinnacle of modern English.  Which nobody will ever see. :) Some mods are really aggressive about this.  I discussed this with a mod on Physics, and he told me that they routinely move discussions when they think they might run off the rails.
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