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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 ...
GlorfindelMod
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Change the prompt "Edit Summary" to something more appropriate
After making an edit to someone else's post, there is a small yet relevant text box with the prompt "Edit Summary". This clearly suggests that you supply a shortened version of your edit. It has ...
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Why are other users allowed to approve third party edits? [duplicate]
A while back I answered a question and another user recently made a factually incorrect edit to my answer. The edit was approved by a third user, and my post was altered. I was able to reject the edit,...
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Allow me to make the same tag edit on more than three questions if the first edits have been approved
I'm currently fixing mistagged questions pertaining to the Haskell stack tool. This means that I'm replacing a lot of stack tags with haskell-stack tags. What slows me down is that I can edit only ...
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Allow users with enough reputation on Meta.SO to edit the privileges page
It was once possible to edit the privileges page for everyone with more than 2k rep on Meta.SO.
I think this is a good thing:
Moderators have other things to do.
Wrong content can be easily fixed.
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Let me edit a post in the close review, then vote to close it
I think we need a button that says Edit and Close added to the Review Close button options. Many of these closed posts will be around forever (and should be, closed should not just be a path to ...
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Hide preview for editing
I notice that when reviewing posts, when the "Edit" link is clicked, the editing interface that comes up has a "Hide Preview" link. The ordinary editing interface doesn't have it. Why is this, and ...
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Comment editing grace period
There is currently a 5-minute grace period on edits on questions and answers where editing it does not cause a new revision in the history.
I'd appreciate a similar grace period on comments, perhaps ...
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Make first draft of a new answer part of the permanent revision history
I find the grace period can lend itself to some unscrupulous behavior on popular tags. I've often seen an earlier, minimalist answer be updated within the first 5 minutes, and incorporate something ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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CHAOS-like option for moderators to edit without bumping
CHAOS members have (had?) the ability to edit posts without bumping:
Because they are doing so many edits at once, CHAOS operates in a special mode where editing a title does not bump it to the ...
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Treat EDIT as more than text
I see a lot of "EDIT" in a question or answer (I use it too), to refine it after some interactions with others, or when there's a new solution (full or partial).
here is an example which uses a "...
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What about lowering the edit character limit for characters in code snippets?
Here is an edit I made today, to correct a misspelled library enum in an answer. Since the edit was only one character, I also had to add a superfluous sentence to get over the character limit ...
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Allow markup in edit comments
Maybe that's overkill. But I just thought that adding markup in edit comments might be useful as well...
An example: my revision 2 in
https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/8149545/2
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Inline editing on search pages, too?
Inspired by this question. I think being able to edit inline, directly in search results, would be a great feature. (One use - people can identify outrageously common spelling errors like "to loose ...
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Can trivial edits not bump the question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Could we have the ability to mark a change as minor in questions or answers?
Feature request: Trivial-edit checkbox
Can we add the option not to bump a message when editing? ...
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