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"Occasionally, someone else may edit your question for you if they can guess what you meant." Would SOMEONE get this straight, please, and post the actual guideline. I recently tried to rescue a newbie's SO question that was understandable but poorly expressed. A "blue diamond" mod wrote: "You cannot know what the OP was actually asking", in spite of the problem being obvious to any reasonable reader. Some say, "edit to improve"; others say, "mind reading forbidden, and it's my decision as to whether you understand the question or not." May as well flip a coin to determine the outcome.
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Commented Jun 3 at 8:47

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like so
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