Having recently seen a few notes that were posted in response to answers in Categorized Questions and Answers, I had the following observation about the format of this section. If you are viewing a question let's say, for example How do I remove whitespace at the beginning or end of my string?, you can see all the answers that have been offered, but you don't see replies/comments that were made on those answers, until you click on the answer itself, to bring up that node. I personally don't think this is something that someone who is browsing the answers is very likely to do.

The problem is that people may have some valid criticism or comment on the answer, that is entirely missed by someone looking for an answer to his/her question. A newcomer or someone not logged in won't be able to see the low rep that the bad answer may/may not have, and they might think that the answer has some merit, since it appears in a somewhat more 'moderated' section of the site...

So, my point is... why can't the child nodes of the answers show up under the answers like in SOPW? To me this makes much more sense and might save some people from some mistakes.

Alternately (or additionally), perhaps the rep of the answers could be permanently visible to everyone, so at least a reader can judge between the offered answers...

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3dan

In reply to Format of Q&A Section by edan

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