Questions tagged [editing]
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Someone is stealing my edits
When submitting an edit, a person is rejecting it in the review queue, but then submits their own edit where many things from my edit are copied.
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Character replaced with boxes in edit view?
What is going on with this question? It looks fine when viewing, but the text in the edit box is... a bit strange. Is this a bug, or has the user engaged in some kind of unicode shenanigans? A small ...
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An edit shows a tag was both removed and added
In this edit of mine last January, it shows that the tag [dns-domain] was both removed and added.
Is this a bug?
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Edit comment language
I recently stumbled upon this edit with the following comment 仕方が無い.
Which google translate inform me transliterate to Shikata ga nai. While a descriptive comment for the edit performed (correcting ...
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What is the best practice for acronym usage in Questions/Answers/Comments?
Today a question mentioning CVE popped up. I would have assumed that what CVE stands for and what it actually is would be common knowledge on a Q&A-site focused on IT security (maybe I'm biased ...
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Moderator edit invalidated an answer
Feeling a bit hesitant rolling back an edit by a moderator, but on this question , this edit by a moderator invalidates this answer.
My understanding across SE is that such edits are not okay (have ...
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Editing misleading question, possibly against authors intention
Situation
I recently spotted this question: Police forcing me to install Jingwang spyware app, how to minimize impact?
In this post there is a good technical question, but it also provides situational ...
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Should we transcribe screenshots of text?
In this question:
How a public dns server could return wrong results
A good Samaritan user @Michael lovingly transcribed out the screenshot of a terminal in a suggested edit.
Certainly text in a ...
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What caused this post to bump to the front page?
I was browsing the front page and this post showed up as "Modified 1 hour ago". I almost replied thinking it was an active post, but it's from 2016 and there doesn't seem to be anything new on it. ...
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Canonical question for "where should I store my server side secrets"?
There are lots of questions about where/how to store encryption keyes, peppers, authentication tokens and what not on a server. They usually get half hearted answers or get closed as duplicate of some ...
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Is adding data on behalf of the original author fine?
Q: Entropy on native memorable password on macosX keychain
The author of the question seems to be happy with my answer, yet she or he added some calculations based on my answer to his question and ...
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User rolls back all edits to his question -- leave it alone?
I can understand that users might feel a little defensive about their posts and not understand edits that are made to it. In the case of this question, the OP has rolled back edits to his question ...
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Did I change the 'tone and focus' of this question with my edit?
I read through this question and saw that none of the existing 10 answers attempted to provide specific references to the standard being discussed (ISO 27001). However, several answers provided ...
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Why is my edit attributed to another user?
I recently tried to edit a question and someone else beat me to the punch. I reviewed their edit and felt like my edit would further improve their edit, so I resubmitted my edit. After resubmitting my ...
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Approve an edit, removing the edited segment
I saw an answer to this question which could be considered aggressive and with a statement that, from my POV; should be better mentioned as a comment instead of an answer.
After editing it, the ...
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