Editing is a core, fundamental Stack Exchange value; we allow editing by registered and unregistered users (if peer reviewed).
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What is general policy for links in posts and edited posts
I have recently gained the privilege of reviewing edits and since then I have reviewed over 100 of them.
I often see edits which do one thing which is they modify links like this:
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How to deal with malicious edits [closed]
So I was answering this question:
How to convert a child class into a parent class for saving in NHibernate?
someone else answered it. I wanted to clarify something. He wasn't getting it, I felt ...
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Should I edit a post only to replace profanity words (which are used in non-offensive way)?
If a user posts a question/answer which contains "bad words" in code examples, should I edit such a post only to replace bad words?
For example, if a user includes this code in his/her post:
var ...
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Alert Closers of questions when a 'good' edit is made?
Often I vote to close, or just close a question in the hopes that a good edit is made on a poor question, to make it ship-shape and sea-worthy. I know this isn't always the case, but I live in the ...
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Email address won't stay hidden on user profile [closed]
I wanted to edit my profile. I disabled the email address in my user profile and saved it. The email address was no longer visible.
However, the next day my email address was visible again, somehow ...
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Editing, commenting and reputation [duplicate]
What is the logic behind the feature where you can edit other people's posts, but you are not able to make comments of those posts? I know the edit will be reviewed before it is accepted, but still I ...
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Going back from Editing vs. Revisions
UPDATE: there are several scenarios for editing:
Editing (with full editing privileges) is done inside the original question URL and can be
cancelled by ESC.
Edit suggestions (without editing ...
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After edit by another person, are my edit reps subtracted?
Lately I edited some questions to improve them and I got 2 reps per edit. Now 4 of them are gone.
When I edit a post I get 2 reps. When after that someone else edits the same post, do I lose those ...
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Why is this edit rejected by community? [duplicate]
A couple of minutes ago I saw this question and thought it could use an edit because there was a lot of 'normal text' in the code blocks. However when I suggested the edit in which I removed the text ...
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I don't feel this edit of my question is a major improvement; am I right and should I re-edit it?
The edit (#4) to my question deletes all of the namespaces and adds 2 tags.
My question is two-fold:
Should the namespaces not be kept to keep the code SSCCE? At minimum I think the ObjectModel ...
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My suggested edit and author's edit were merged
here are the similar questions I found:
Question history attributed changes to me that I didn't make
SO says I made a change that I didn't make
There is no 5-minute edit window when using ...
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Will upvotes to a question affect the reputation of the question's editor(s)?
Stack Exchange users automatically gain a +2 reputation boost from editing questions and having their edits accepted. However, I think users should also earn reputation for making edits to answers ...
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Best way to inspire new users to improve the formatting of their posts
It's my habit to edit and improve the formatting of any post which is not formatted well. Specially I edit new users' posts so they can inspire from that and format their future posts well.
I just ...
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Kill the Retag option, use just Edit
I am a 1500 rep SO user. As such, I've had the Retag ability for some time, but I'm not yet able to bypass the review queue for 'normal' edits.
So, my feature-request is that for us 500 < Rep < ...
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Can't edit any questions? [duplicate]
It appears that the edit link is disabled on every post for me. Is it possible to be edit banned, and if so why would I be?
