Those are arguably even more visible then answers. This feels to heavy-handed to me. I don’t want to reprimand the user, I often just want to let them know stuff like
btw, I extracted this post to a different topic, because I think it’s better suited to a different discussion. Don’t be afraid to start a new topic and link to existing ones. There is even a „reply as new topic“ function here
Or
you can mention users by using
@, this will also insert links to their Profile and is thus preferable to just writing out their name
Most members of my community are new to the concept of a discussion board, many haven’t used any of modern communication tools we are likely all used to (things like Slack, Google Docs, JIRA, etc) and are all new to Discourse and learning it. So I don’t want to tell them „you are doing it wrong“ and make them feel bad, instead I want to help them use the tools they have in a better way and give them a friendly nudge to be better.
That’s why I thought StackOverflow-like comments might work. They are unobstrusive, and clearly about the separate reply, not about the overall topic.