Questions tagged [rollback-wars]
Repeatedly rolling back edits on a post. A Rollback-war triggers an automatic moderator attention flag by the same name.
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Post with "confidential information" repeatedly vandalized
A post by a 5k user about a simple shell script syntax problem was asked and rapidly answered and closed as a duplicate in October.
Now, several months later, this user is replacing the question text ...
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When is it correct to re-do changes that the author intentionally rolled back?
Another user recently edited an old answer of mine to remove this footer which came after a code suggestion for the answer:
Do note the comment attached to your question. StackOverflow is not a code-...
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Proper procedure to take when a combative notice is added to a question
I came upon this message added to a question's body:
Given the nature of the message, I flagged the question to be reviewed by the moderation team, but didn't edit it. I didn't edit it due to the ...
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An author of an important answer has repeatedly rolled back changes that make clear improvements. What should I do?
The specific answer: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/209854/revisions, is the top answer to a very popular question, How can I make a dictionary (dict) from separate lists of keys and values?.
The ...
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Do rollback wars on deleted posts generate auto-flags?
It isn't clear if this is the case from the post on MSE; perhaps I should ask there, but there's a few other questions to this besides the title question.
If this isn't done, shouldn't it be done? ...
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Are my edits needless?
Two days ago I came across a question where the OP had added an answer into the question itself, so I simply removed the answer from the question and pasted it into a new community wiki answer.
I ...
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User keeps changing question markup to use HTML markup
While looking at this question's revision history, I've noticed that there's a user who goes by the name Alex Skorkin who has edited the contents of a question to use HTML markup instead of the ...
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High-rep user removing OP text from question
I recently stumbled upon a question that was marked as duplicate, followed by the OP editing the question trying to explain why they think the question is not a duplicate. However the user who hammer-...
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Users stating that they do not want their posts to be edited
I was browsing through Stack Overflow looking for Q&A related to a regex-related issue I'm having and noticed this particular question with a warning-like statement written at the end of the ...
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Is there a way to suggest a rollback of a rollback?
Yesterday I came across an answer that helped me, but I found it difficult to comprehend. So, I edited it to make it more readable. My edit did not change what the answer says, it changed how it was ...
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Rollback of entirely edited question
The OP for Python classes and reference points edited the original question with an entirely new one. After rolling it back and requesting they post a new question, they rolled back my rollback to the ...
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Users go into edit war about C tag
In Why would one use %8.8 over %08 in a C or C++ format string?, the OP had tagged this with c and c++. However, a user blasted into the comments section (now comments are deleted) and with his ...
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What can we do to police abuse when moderators are unavailable?
This user, posted this question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41888055/error-when-opening-up-a-new-swift-playground
The edit history (screenshot below) shows a timeframe of the history of ...
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Can we stop title edits to this PHP canonical question?
UTF-8 all the way through
This is a really old(2008) question that has become canonical for people asking a number of UTF8 questions within php (which is relatively common for various reasons). Since ...
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Edit war: How do I raise a flag without getting declined by moderator?
I have observed an edit war on SO. The OP keeps on editing the question by replacing the original (answered) question with junk text, while >2k users are trying to keep the original:
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