Questions tagged [grace-period]
Edits within 5 minutes of making a post or editing a post are rolled into one revision. (For the bounty grace period of 24 hours, use the [expired-bounty] tag instead.)
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Grace period removed? [duplicate]
The grace period has disappeared.
For example, the history of this now-deleted post shows an edit five and ten seconds after posting.
Is that intentional? I don't see an announcement.
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Edits no longer have a grace period?
Usually edits made within 5 minutes of making or editing a post are rolled into a single revision in the edit history. However, it looks like edits are getting listed separately even if they were ...
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When submitting a tag wiki edit from the revision history during the grace period, I get redirected to the site home page rather than to the wiki page
When I make a binding edit to a tag wiki or tag wiki excerpt from the revision history as a 20k+ user during the grace period (editing the individual portion rather than both at the same time), and ...
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Unable to submit grace period edits to tag wikis using the "Edit tag info" button; works fine when editing from revision history
Update: The server error I originally described no longer seems to happen.
However, it seems that when using the "Edit tag info" button to make and submit a tag wiki edit during the grace ...
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How long is the question/answer edit grace period? [duplicate]
I have observed there is a period of time which edits can be made to a question or an answer within which the edits are not reported by SE as being edits.
There is sometimes a problem when user A ...
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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 ...
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Did the "grace period" for edits on posts break?
Did the grace period for edits on posts recently go away? Or did the mechanism break maybe?
I was recently editing an FAQ post on MSO, and after saving the edit, realized I changed something which I ...
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Translation of "appended answer {id} as supplemental" is not used on profile page
Translation of "appended answer {id} as supplemental" is not used on profile page:
At the same time all is fine on the post revision page:
It seems that the same issue exists for "[...
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Who, if anybody, can see grace period edit history?
I recently made a post with an image in it that had some mildly sensitive information that I forgot to blur out.
I edited the image, then edited the post and replaced it. I managed to do it during the ...
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Is there something similar to the quality filter for edits made by the OP?
I have found some recent questions that have by-passed the quality filter and doesn't show any revision. My guess is that the OP found a way to by-pass the quality filter in order to get their ...
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Allow editing the edit summary [duplicate]
I just made an edit and saved it without giving it an edit summary. The default summary was
added 24 characters in body
I made another edit to the same post within 5 minutes, this time changing ...
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Would a 5-minute grace period for moderator messages (both directions) be useful?
I wrote a long reply (1.2k+ words) to a moderator message, and after clicking "Reply", I spotted a typo, just one typo.
Given that moderator messages are private and cannot be edited (by others), it ...
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"Edit removed during grace period" is not translatable in a couple of contexts
The text "Edit removed during grace period" is out of translation engine for a couple of situations:
on the post edit page:
on the profile activity tab revision subtab
On the same time ...
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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 ...
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What does it mean when an edit has the description "[Edit removed during grace period]"?
Recently I came across a few edits on the formatting sandbox with the description "[Edit removed during grace period]".
It definitely wasn't made within the 5 minute grace period. What does it mean?
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