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Remove the 'resetting any rude or abusive flags' note from the rollback tooltip
The tooltip for the rollback button in a revision history is:
sets the current revision to this version of the post, resetting any "rude or abusive" flags
However, the 'resetting of red ...
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The policy of editing out “noise” should be proactively explained and more easily referred to and justified
Across the network, but especially on Stack Overflow, it's considered important to edit questions and answers to remove noise. Of course I agree with this policy; it's part of what keeps the sites ...
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Only add the "edited by" label for big changes, and not "Edit tags"
Editing tags is a minor change; "Edited by ..." should be added only for big edits/ improvements.
Personally, I find "Edited by ... Kilroy" distracting, not helpful.
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Possible incentive problem since edits bump questions
I posted Is armageddon more fair in a Vickrey auction? in Chess Stack Exchange on February 9th 2023. It was bumped a year later when someone edited my post on 18th March 2024.
Why doesn't this create ...
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Does it make sense to be able to unilaterally edit Qs and As but not be able to unilaterally approve edits?
I've just realized that while my current level of site permissions on one of the SE sites allows me to edit other people's questions and answers at will, it does not allow me to unilaterally approve ...
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Protected questions should have a higher reputation requirement for editing and approving edits
When a question is protected it requires a certain minimum reputation to answer it. At least on politics SE this is mostly used for questions that are highly politized or opioniated. And it works in ...
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Display author name while editing a question or answer
I was editing an answer and wanted to say "we can also write this if [author name] agrees" but noticed that the author name was written nowhere on the post edit page interface. I had to open ...
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Let's remove spam/offensive edit suggestions from the original poster's inbox as quickly as we can
Some of us have taken it upon ourselves to seek out the worst of what finds its way to Stack Exchange so that the majority of users don't have to see any of that. That's how the spam and rude flags ...
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I suggest to do a flag button inside an edit block [duplicate]
There isn't an individual flag for edits: we can't use a special flag relating to someone who edits a post of another user. Now the only way to draw a moderator's attention about someone's edit is to ...
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It should probably be clearer that large numbers of minor edits aren't useful
When you edit a page on a site where you don't have enough rep to edit without needing approval, it says this:
Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.
We welcome edits that ...
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How to deal with mass typos fixing, should they be a part of homepage?
There are several questions about the issue, but related to low-rep users, e.g. Are we discouraged from fixing typos and misspellings on Stack Exchange sites?
I would like to discuss how should we ...
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"Go get it" button for editing badges should link to the 'Annotated Posts' page
If I'm tracking one of the edit badges and click on the progress bar, it offers me a link to 'go get it':
Clicking on the button takes me to the Low-Quality Posts review queue. It's actually quite a ...
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Mark edit as "copy-edit" to preserve the original author's name
This is a suggestion similar to the one put forward here
Could we have the ability to mark a change as minor in questions or answers?
but with different mechanics, so I'm posting it separately.
I ...
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Warn BEFORE of 6 character edit limit, not AFTER
It was a bright sunny day. We noticed something amiss in somebody else's post. We thought, "Let's be helpful, and fix it."
So we set our hand to (gasp) editing it. We thereupon see:
Your ...
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Can we alias a question's title without creating a separate question?
For a long time, we have marked questions as duplicates as way of aliasing another question.
For example, I saw a question on a Stack Exchange site which was titled something like:
I am *onfused with ...
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Opining a successful-edit-count-based two tier suggested edit system
This is a bit of a follow up to the 'answer' here.
From the time editing was first introduced, it's a system that both has been refined, and occasionally has scaled poorly. In general, the mechanics ...
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Image markdown - remove to re-add isn't smooth
If I edit a post to swap a quick phone snap for a properly cropped version, straightened & punched up in Photoshop to be more legible, better exposed [a dozen reasons I edit many photos a day ...
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Capitalization for image placeholder
I found out that in process of posts improvement by this user, the phrase "enter image description here" used as a default image description placeholder is often (always?) being capitalized ...
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How can I quickly/easily edit all posts with a given tag, to change some to use a different tag?
Example:
On Emacs there's long been a tag, auto-complete-mode, which corresponds to a particular (now old) Emacs package autocomplete.el and its command/mode auto-complete-mode.
For several years now, ...
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Check pending edit limit before allowing user to initiate a new edit [duplicate]
I've been reviewing questions in the First Questions review queue on Stack Overflow and frequently find it necessary to make minor edits to questions. I understand that I am limited to a specific ...
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Users should be able to save an answer draft on a closed question if it's edited for reopening
I recently came across a question that had been closed for being unclear, but I think I knew what the asker meant, so I edited the question and checked the box to have it reviewed for reopening.
I ...
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Edit-locking comments is really not all that useful [duplicate]
Anyone who has been on SE for any length of time knows the bypass of copying the comment, deleting it, and reposting it. Yes, that puts our revised comment out of order, but that is often acceptable.
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"There are too many pending edits on Stack Overflow" Is there an auto-deletion?
Core considerations are at the bottom if you're short on time.
Is there any sort of auto-deletion of suggested edits after a certain amount of time? It gets pretty annoying to have to wait for ...
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Give editors and edit-reviewers visible reminders to flag NLN where appropriate
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In the edit UI for non-suggested edits, add a reminder near the finish button to flag NLN on comments where appropriate.
In the review UI for suggested edits, for reviewers who are about to ...
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Using keyboard shortcut E silently fails if there's a pending suggested edit
On Q&A pages, using the keyboard shortcut E opens the post editor (either inline if you have full edit privileges, or in a new page).
However, this fails if there's a pending suggested edit; in ...
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Limit the number of times an author can choose "Submit for review" when editing a closed question
When a question is closed, anyone can make an edit and submit the question for reopening:
This can be done an indefinite amount of times, which can lead to situations where authors are making ...
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Harmonize display names for automatic URL rewrites
A couple of years ago, Stack Exchange switched to HTTPS-only and all internal links were rewritten by (non-bumping) edits by the Community user, like this one here.
I just noticed that on Stack ...
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Update Vue 2 links in all Stack Exchange sites
I'm trying to rewrite legacy Vue 2 links from https://vuejs.org/v2 to https://v2.vuejs.org/v2 across all Stack Exchange sites.
I've completed the update on Stack Overflow with a script, but there are ...
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Should the default edit summaries be in sentence case?
I'm not entirely au fait with the site's inner workings so I'm not sure if this is a bug, feature-request or if it's actually status-bydesign, hence the open question.1
The default edit summaries are ...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Edit Rate Limit
Due to a recent change in how grace period edits work, users without the "remove new user restrictions" privilege can no longer take advantage of the grace period — all their edits now ...
