Recently I've noticed that in Stack Overflow I no longer am allowed to edit questions and answers. This seems to be disabled. Can anyone please tell me why that might have happened?
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Too many of your recent suggested edits have been rejected, and you have been banned (temporarily, one week) from suggesting any more.
Reviewing the recent rejected suggestions, we find:
- February 27
- You need to do more than just fix the formatting and remove 'thank you'. You left many other problems in place. It was thus rejected as Too Minor.
- February 27
- 'JavaScript', 'JSF' and 'API' are not code (or variable names). Don't use backticks for those, only use that for code and names taken from code (class names, variables, etc.).
- February 27
- Just adding backticks to
JPanelis too minor; adding the ticks doesn't really add anything to the quality of that post.
- Just adding backticks to
- February 26
- 'firefox', 'chrome' and 'internet explorer' are not code (or variable names). Don't use backticks for those, only use that for code and names taken from code (class names, variables, etc.).
- February 25
- 'javascript' is not code (or a variable name). Don't use backticks for those, only use that for code and names taken from code (class names, variables, etc.).
- February 22
- 'Worker Threads and SwingWorker' is not code (or a variable name). Don't use backticks for those, only use that for code and names taken from code (class names, variables, etc.).
These two were editing conflicts (suggested edits always lose to a regular edit submitted at the same time):
The rest are older.
Your ban will automatically be lifted after 1 week, but its purpose has been served. You took a breather from suggesting edits and instead took the time to find out why you were blocked. Thank you!
answered Mar 5, 2013 at 14:23
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Go through your list of suggested edits and see which ones have been rejected. Try to understand why. stackoverflow.com/users/1575570/…– BartMar 5, 2013 at 14:25
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1One thing I can suggest, Nidhish; a number of your edits are just taking random 'key' words and using code formatting to emphasize them. You should not do that; Code formatting should only be used for actual code. Mar 5, 2013 at 14:26
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@AndrewBarber Whilst I agree with what you are suggesting, I disagree with that last sentence. I do find that if I'm speaking about class names, it's a lot better and more readable to put them in code. Although, this doesn't warrant an edit to an existing post, as others have stated :) Mar 5, 2013 at 14:31
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@NidhishKrishnan: No, just 1 week from the last edit. You did the right thing coming here to learn how to not have so many edits rejected in the future. Mar 5, 2013 at 14:31
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@mattytommo: I think that that is what Andrew means. There is, however, a tendency to put anything that sounds remotely 'code-ish' in backticks these days. See the second rejected suggestion. Mar 5, 2013 at 14:33
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1@mattytommo I'm not really against judicious use of code formatting for class names. But this user was using it for things like
JavascriptMar 5, 2013 at 14:33 -
2Thanks for all your replies.... Now i understand what the problem is... Mar 5, 2013 at 14:34
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3@MartijnPieters Ah I see, then I agree with the over-
usingof thecodestatement, I see it a lot in theC#questions. I mean,whileit can be usedifresponsible,usingitforevery keyword is prettyvoidIMO :) Mar 5, 2013 at 14:35 -
@Al: Thanks. Non-native speaker, still working on the muscle memory for those two... Mar 5, 2013 at 15:44
notjustrandomkeywords.