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24 questions linked to/from Allow non-bumping minor edits, but review them on /review
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Spellling and grammmar issues are overemphasize [duplicate]
tldr; Don't bump minor edits for old posts.
While we can all agree that if you notice questoin in a post, it should be corrected to question, I think we can all also agree that correction shouldn't ...
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Organizing Edits Without Bumping [duplicate]
Why do we need this feature?
Sometimes community leaders (community members who care their community and its meta issues) decide to make some minor edits on a certain set of posts (which may include ...
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Review queue workflows - Final release
All good things must come to an end and so must the review queues project. This project would not have been successful without the community. Thank you all for the hours of reviewing, testing, and ...
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Magic wand time - what does your community need?
Continuing in my series of questions to you:
Last week, I heard some great origin stories. This week, I’d like to refocus a bit on what could be better (in your view). I’m very curious about whether ...
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Could we have the ability to mark a change as minor in questions or answers?
It would be nice to allow users to mark a change in an answer (or question) as minor (e.g. for a simple spelling or grammar correction). A change marked as minor wouldn't push the question on top of ...
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Is there a way to edit a question without bumping it to the front page?
Given that the Stack Overflow trilogy is to be a resource for googlers, I usually try to go back over my questions/answers and improve them in whatever way that I can. However, I feel this may be ...
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Should we add any friction to edits on posts that are old or probably obsolete?
Lately I've seen a lot of small edits here on Meta to posts that are obsolete -- for example, past Winterbashes, site functionality that has since been changed, and bugs that were status-completed ...
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The flip side of no minor edits
While I agree that minor edits as implemented are a bad idea, there are many questions that simply have bad English, but are still intelligible. Fixing them is usually something that I would call a ...
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Tool for peer-reviewed no-bump mass retagging
Cleaning up a bad or ambiguous tag is a very annoying and disruptive process. While there are moderator tools for renaming and merging tags, there is no tool that helps splitting a tag or removing a ...
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Retagging/Bumping Etiquette
(Semi-related to Too much retagging)
I have been going through a bunch of single-use tags on Super User (misspellings, tag synonyms etc.) and retagging them with proper, commonly-used tags. However, ...
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Unintended consequences of the new /review on small and beta sites?
I've been using the new /review on a couple of the smaller sites on the network. In general it works very well, I've been doing a lot more review. But there in may lie a problem, in that it is easy ...
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What do you use to mark questions that need editing when you want to avoid excessive bumping?
As far as I can tell, on many sites there is a consensus that it is better to avoid bumping too many questions at the same time. (At least on the sites I visit frequently I have seen some discussions ...
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System to enable hand-sorted moderator retagging for sizeable disambiguation jobs
This is a hopefully less complex alternative to this old request, directed mostly at the same problem. This request was inspired from Jeff Atwood's comment on this answer, quoted for quick reference:
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How to deal with mass typos fixing, should they be a part of homepage?
There are several questions about the issue, but related to low-rep users, e.g. Are we discouraged from fixing typos and misspellings on Stack Exchange sites?
I would like to discuss how should we ...
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Are edited questions bumped to the front page?
I got a warning for multiple edits to a question on Mathematics, stating "Editing posts, even deleted ones, bumps them to the front page which takes precious front page real estate, and can be ...
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Wouldn't it be better for posts to not move up in active when only tags are added/edited? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tool for peer-reviewed no-bump mass retagging
The Issue
Most would agree that it is beneficial to add quality, relevant keywords to a post. It helps them be found ...
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Option to limit main page username associations to post authors
Question and answer posts are the meat of SE sites. A significant portion of posts could potentially benefit from editing, but editing is a background curation function that, by definition, is not ...
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The system for adding a new tag to old questions is broken
Tags are useful for lots of reasons. Accurate and specific tags: much more-so.
When a site does't have a particular tag, it's easy enough to add a new tag to an existing question.
But, applying a new ...
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"minor edit" classification redux
I want to enable minor edits and I think might have gotten close enough to how to do it right to talk about it here. I'll try not to waste your time.
Add up all the costs of minor edits; it's more ...
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Resolving the dissonance on edits and bumps
Should we make "trivial" edits to posts? And what counts as a "trivial" edit? And when should edits or retags "bump" a post to the front page?
This long-running debate could use some resolution, or ...
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Provide a bulk-rollback mechanism for all features that can be bulk-approved
On Programmers, thanks to the shiny new badge no doubt, dozens of tag wikis were suggested that directly copied Wikipedia and Stack Overflow's tag wikis. This violates the attribution requirement of ...
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Review queue to approve edits to very old posts with/without bumping
Following up on the discussion here, I make the following proposal to address the problem of edits to lots of very old posts causing newer posts to be bumped down.
Create a new review queue for edits ...
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Marking Micro edits [duplicate]
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Could we have the ability to mark a change as minor in questions or answers?
It would be nice to have some kind of checkbox when editing, that says micro edit (no content ...
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Possibility to restrict search results by date of the most recent answer (or any answer)?
According to search help there are two possibilities how search results can be restricted to some date range. Namely created: and lastactive:. The latter is based on the last activity of the post, for ...
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