Maybe this is a bit quibbling, but I'm curious why my answer was changed to a comment on this question? I did use the previous person's answer as a bit of a springboard, but my answer (John was given a vision of the kindgom of God prior to his death) seemed to be quite different than the other user's (John may still be alive somewhere and could be until Christ's return).
As a meta-meta aside, maybe: Is this the proper way to ask these kind of things?
In reviewing the other mod's actions, I would suggest that there are two reasons to convert that to a comment.
First, it wasn't an answer to the OP's question. Using a question as a springboard for some other topic is not how SE works.
Secondly, it isn't valid to answer questions with other questions. That's something to do as a comment to clarify the original question or (if a significantly different topic) as a new question.
First of all, the "answer" part of your answer didn't really say much of anything and it referred to a different answer, giving it the feel of a comment. It would have been better if you had elaborated on what you meant.
Second, it ended with a question. This is not a philosophical forum where you can answer questions with more questions. That question would have been fine as its own question and not tacked on to the end of an answer.
Having said that, a site where you can nest questions sounds interesting... :P
From the faq:
Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed
* commentary on the question or other answers
* asking another, different question
* “thanks!” or “me too!” responses
* exact duplicates of other answers
* barely more than a link to an external site
* not even a partial answer to the actual question
In this particular case, the answer contained two sentences. The first was a commentary on another answer. The second sentence introduced another question.
Neither of these sentences could stand on their own as a sufficient answer, therefore this post is considered "low quality".
The purpose of a QnA site is to ask and answer questions. Your post did neither so it was removed. The moderator who removed it felt that it had enough merit to remain part of the site and so he (generously) converted it to a comment.
