Update "Comments and Replies to Comments" to clarify metadata require…

…ments Rephrasing the bullet points under "Comments and Replies to Comments" subheading to better describe the metadata requirements for these submission types.
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 Requirements for Comments and Replies:
 
-- "Comments-on" content type must have a Title: "Comment(s) on 'title-of-original-paper'" and the metadata Comments field must contain "comment(s) on arXiv-ID-of-the-original-paper".
-- A response from the original authors is always permitted and must have a Title: "Reply to comment(s) on 'title-of-original-paper'" and the Comments metadata field must contain "reply to comment(s) on arXiv-ID".
-- In rare cases where the original paper is not on arXiv the arXiv-ID is replaced by the external DOI.
+- “Comments-on” papers must include the arXiv-ID of the original paper in the Title and/or Comments metadata fields (e.g., “comment(s) on arXiv:YYMM.NNNNN").
+- When a “comments-on” paper is published on arXiv, a reply from the authors of the original paper is always permitted (subject to the same moderation criteria as comments). Reply submissions should include the arXiv-ID of the “comments-on” paper to which they respond in the Title and/or Comments metadata fields (e.g., “reply to arXiv: YYMM.NNNNN”).
+- In rare cases where the original paper is not on arXiv, the DOI of the original paper should be used to identify it in the metadata in place of an arXiv-ID.
 - A chain of continued responses and counterresponses is allowed only as new versions of the initial Comment and Reply; these will not be accepted as new papers with new arXiv-IDs. A given author or co-author may submit only one Comment on a particular paper. Any subsequent issues the author wishes to raise must be done through version updates of the original Comment.
 
   * A replacement can be used two ways to create a new version under the same arXiv-ID: