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15 questions linked to/from SO is too eager to turn my edited answers into Community Wiki
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Community Wiki punishes users for improving their posts [duplicate]
Posts enter community wiki mode when... the post has been edited ten
(10) times by the original owner. - What are Community Wiki
posts?
Good users occasionally edit their posts to add new info, ...
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12 edits make an answer community wiki? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Is there any point forcing a post to Community Wiki after 6 owner edits?
SO is too eager to turn my edited answers into Community Wiki
All edits are made by the same person,...
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Can we disable automatic community wiki conversion for answer edits?
Currently, if a user edits their answer more than a certain number of times, that answer is automatically converted by the system to community wiki status. This trips up many well-meaning and active ...
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Is there any point forcing a post to Community Wiki after 6 owner edits?
Personally I think not. If the concern is spurious bumping then simply stop bumping the post after some arbitrary edit.
This site might be part-Wiki, part-Q&A but I think its clear that people ...
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Quick edits force a badly-formatted post to wiki within minutes [closed]
Scenario
A new user posts a question quite innocently (but obviously without looking at the preview). It may be a fine question, but because of the user's use of < in the code sections (which of ...
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I edit my answers a lot. How can I prevent myself from forfeiting credit due to "community wiki"?
I make a lot of edits to my posts, as I tend to answer, edit for grammar, and then refine it as I do more research. It's simply my style of learning while also answering. My posts are almost all very ...
user167114
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Make all votes on answers that earn reputation count towards tag stats & specialist badge total
I had an answer with 8 votes that I'm very pleased with, and cleaned it up a bit today. (Basically, I removed the conversational nature it took due to comments plus a bit of formatting and grammar ...
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Can we make an edit not move a question up, instead of making it community wiki after 6 edits?
There may be some motivations on editing a question:
Correct typos / grammar
Provide a better answer (semantic change)
Bump the question up, so one can get more upvotes
That being, after I do 5 ...
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You can deduce how many flags a post has
Now that the -1 for flags is denormalized, you can find out how many flags a post has if you have more than 1000 reputation.
Real life example:
A question looks like this
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The rule of automatic change of the post to wiki is too severe for non-native english speakers [closed]
I am not a native English speaker. I have never been to an English-speaking country. My English is very far from the ideal. Often I make errors, and see them only later. Often I can't find a good ...
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How many times can one edit one's own post?
I usually don't need to edit my posts more than five times (at least, I haven't done so so far).
I am just worried, is there any limit to the number of edits allowed? (Apart from the I am a human ...
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Is the rule "Edits must be at least 6 characters" still in place? [duplicate]
I found a post that is being bumped by the OP (so far 4 times in the last 30 days) by doing meaningless edits: deleting 1 character / adding 1 character. I think that the system has a rule to prevent ...
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Have rollbacks not count towards community-wikiness
I think rollbacks shouldn't count towards posts becoming Community Wiki posts.
If there is no change in content, the post was not generated by the community, but keeps being written by the original ...
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Do answers to community wiki questions earn reputation?
Yesterday I asked this question on Stack Overflow. Since initially asking the question, I have added images and neatened it up quite a bit. This has caused it to become a community wiki question.
I ...
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Editing answers quickly will show up first version and not second version
I tried to edit my answer within a few minutes of posting. On the first edit, it shows the first version of the post.
On the next immediate edit, it doesn't show the updated version, but instead still ...
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