How to reply to Comments

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Hello
I just received a comment with a question I wanted to reply to. I went into the authors section and clicked Edit/Reply, but nothing happened. So I went to the front of the site and hit the link in the comment itself to reply. That worked fine, but in order to post my answer to the comment I had to rate the article. Well, I gave it a 5, but it would have been nicer not to have to rate myself. Is there somewhere in the author section to do this directly where I don't have to rate my own work?