Question: I was working on this question: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25200049/java-logging-to-file-only-first-message-is-written> and the commenter is saying that he wants a full class, but at the same time minimal code. It then turns into a comment "battle" which is not helpful to anyone. What is the best way to go about such a situation. Should the comments just be ignored? 

Also, is what is being said actually correct and I am not putting in enough code to make it "complete" or should I put the extra brackets in to make it a class? Or is it minimal yet enough to help the users help me?

Answer: 
You let that *discussion* sit there a while until it is resolved or nobody cares anymore. Then you would summarize anything useful from the comments as an additional comment or add this information to the post itself.

You then flag only one of the comments for moderator attention (*other*) and describe that it was resolved/discussion is not constructive and that the complete discussion should be removed.

Don't flag every one of the comments as *not constructive*, because it will be slightly more work for a mod and might be declined, because the mod might think that the information is still useful.

*OR (based on comments)*

Flag the first comment to be deleted with *other* describing the situation and then flag the other comments which need to be deleted as *not constructive* or *obsolete* or *too chatty* (whichever applies best to the individual comment).
Well you can always flag the comments:

* rude or offensive
* not constructive
* obsolete
* too chatty
* other…

I guess "not constructive" would be the appropriate flag for this battle.