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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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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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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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"How to Edit" information in edit page is meaningless to OP
I am a user without the edit privilege in Ask Ubuntu.
When I click the edit button on my own post, this is shown:
The How to Edit information is kinda meaningless to the OP.
How to Edit
Correct ...
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Tags for improving a closed question?
I notice we must have a tag on a question on meta sites that's either discussion, support, bug, or feature-request.
so I guess requiring help to improve a question is like discussion?
also besides ...
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Should/do we discourage edits, by privileged users or not, to off-topic questions that will end up deleted?
This is not a duplicate of Is "don't polish turds" a valid rejection reason"?. We want to prevent those edits from getting into the queue in the first place. That also focuses ...
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Please allow to edit questions that are mostly code [duplicate]
There are some low-quality questions that consist mostly of wrongly formatted code. When trying to format it correctly (i.e., code actually becomes code), you get a notification that "your" ...
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When closing a post, send an edit request to an active community member
I'm a new lurker in psychology.stackexchange.com and I've noticed that it's getting harder and harder to ask questions, especially because the moderators have kept closing posts that are sometimes ...
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Why am I not notified for edits on answers and posts? [duplicate]
There's a question I answered some time ago (about 2 weeks) and now I see there were some edits introduced a week ago by another person to the question and to my answer. Why am I not notified of these ...
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"I'm Done" for Late Answers after "approve edit" [duplicate]
Sometimes when I feel that a "late answer" needs editing, there's already a suggested edit over there. But approving it (of course after inspection) doesn't enable the "I'm Done" action. On top of ...
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Equivalent of “dupehammer” for review edits
Stack Exchange has installed the "dupehammer" mechanism for a reason - at some point we trust a user and allow him/her to make decisions without second guessing him/her.
At 2,000 rep we trust a user ...
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Let it be more clear for new users that their questions can be edited anytime [duplicate]
After the comment I made on a question from a new user, their response was:
thanks for the corrective feedback, as this is my first question ever
on Stackoverflow. Didn't even know I could edit ...
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Allow tag edits while suggested question edits are pending
I follow some tags and many questions are wrongly tagged with them. In these cases, I don't care about some formatting or grammar changes someone suggested and possibly read a long post that I'm not ...
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Make user aware they can’t make an edit before they start editing iOS
I’ve had this issue several times now.
I go onto a post in the iOS app, put a lot of work into an edit on a site without editing privileges, click submit and then it says I can’t suggest edits to the ...
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What can we do to stop spammers from exploiting the grace period?
Recently, spammers on WordPress Development discovered a "new" trick - the grace period. They post a spam post without the link and immediately edit it in.
Yesterday, I happened to spot yet another ...
