<p>One possible alternative for quickly setting up stock comments for common issues is discussed in the comments under the accepted answer here:</p>

<p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2468/how-best-to-use-the-review-queue">How best to use the review queue?</a></p>

<p>(where you can see many "standard" comments discussed)</p>

<p>This refers to the stackapps script described here:</p>

<p><a href="https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/autoreviewcomments-pro-forma-comments-for-se">https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/autoreviewcomments-pro-forma-comments-for-se</a></p>

<p>I simply use the Firefox add-on there (I also use Chrome as a browser but I tend to do most of my CrossValidated work in Firefox so I only have it set up there).</p>

<p>You can set up several comments (including links) for each of questions and answers (and several other things but I ignore the rest). I have changed almost all the default question and answer comment slots.</p>

<p>I rarely use what I set up unchanged though; I paste in one that's close to what I want and edit the result (beware - the pasted autocomment obliterates anything you typed before it so paste first, add later)</p>

<p>It's easy to set up, and easy to use (see the link to the stackapps page which describes how to use it).</p>

<p>This would be a way of getting some of what you want to do more easily that would work if your feature request doesn't succeed.</p>

<p>One thing in particular to note is that it <em>automatically</em> figures out if you're talking to a new user and auto-inserts a welcome message before the pro-forma comment (which Welcome you can also customize, as far as I recall).</p>

<p>That should make it possible for you to set up a good approximation of what you want for the self-study comment and your usual welcome, each in their own slot, in such a way that if you were talking to a new user posting a self-study question, both parts would be put in together, by choosing your "self-study" comment from the list.</p>

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<p>I'd also add that (since you make a lot of them and they're not of lasting value) you should consider deleting old comments of this kind (after a few days, say). See the discussion of this in comments by chl and whuber under the question here: </p>

<p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2913/are-plain-welcome-to-our-site-comments-too-chatty">Are plain &quot;Welcome to our site&quot; comments too chatty?</a></p>

<p>(I've deleted some of yours that were at least a week old, but so far only ones where they contained only a welcome and a link to the tour)</p>
