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Comments on Allow pasting images in comments.

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Allow pasting images in comments.

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Recently, I posted electrical.codidact.com/comments/thread/11173#comment-27698, which cites two images from Wikipedia, and another from elsewhere.

Although citing versioned MediaWiki URIs from Wikipedia isn't problematic, because they'll never become 404s, I've been forced to cite szapphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/usb-c-pinout-diagram.webp, because I am unable to paste images into comments, which may well become so.

A workaround may exist: to post an image to an external hoster, [1] then embed that image with a CommonMark hyperlink (![]()). However, I've yet to ascertain whether that operates either, and [2] it, regardless, wouldn't be convenient, nor significantly more stable.


  1. github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/6211#issue-3553892727 ↩︎

  2. comments/thread/11190#comment-27707 ↩︎

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Posting this demonstrated a bug. (10 comments)
Just to confirm, Markdown images don't work in comments (5 comments)
Alternative (not an objection to this feature request) (2 comments)
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Comments are not for content. Actually that's up to each site, but there seems to be consensus to avoid the messy comment environment of elsewhere you might be familiar with.

Comments are definitely not for content on the Electrical Engineering site. See the last section of electrical.codidact.com/help/intro, which you were supposed to have read before posting on the site.

In this case, not being able to include images in a comment was actually helpful, since it prevented an even bigger abuse of comments.

Perhaps images in comments might be useful on some sites, although I don't think there are any of those currently. If that is eventually allowed, it will be important for individual sites to be able to opt out.

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I don't understand what you refer to as abuse, nor how the cited documentation elaborates. (2 comments)
I don't understand what you refer to as abuse, nor how the cited documentation elaborates.

Comments are definitely not for content on the Electrical Engineering site. See the last section of electrical.codidact.com/help/intro, which you were supposed to have read before posting on the site.

In this case, not being able to include images in a comment was actually helpful, since it prevented an even bigger abuse of comments.

This doesn't appear to explain how what I propose could constitute “abuse”. I've now read what you cite for the second time (I did read it before posting), and don't see how it elaborates.

Considering that I was merely answering a question that you posed to me with exactly the content requested, I don't consider this response to be particularly assistive.

This answer reads as if this proposition somehow made you emotive, which I certainly don't understand.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 11 months ago

I asked for clarification of your question in a comment. As it says in the document I linked to:

If you asked a question, and got a comment asking for more information, add the information to the question, don't bury it by replying with another comment.