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Ethics of editing Title, and/or tags
Often times I see posts for which the asker has filled in the maximum number of tags, and although the concepts for each tag exist in the content of the post, the question asked is really only about 1 ...
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Priority of grammar, spelling and punctuation in questions [duplicate]
How much priority should be given to grammar, spelling and punctuation when editing a question? How relevant are those? Should questions and answers be edited because of the sole reason there are ...
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Is an edit that changes mobile links to desktop links a meaningful edit?
Some websites, like Wikipedia, use an m. prefix to distinguish between the mobile and the desktop version. Mobile users often automatically get the mobile version when navigating to the desktop ...
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Bad English from non-native speakers [duplicate]
I've been recently coming across questions with poor English; questions that are grammatically incorrect, not properly capitalised and whatnot. What should we do about it? Should we downvote or edit ...
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OP has edited his question and completely changed it
This question was asked today. The OP posted a lengthy assignment and asked for clarification on his course. I indicated that I thought this was off topic and voted to close. Later, I found the OP has ...
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Edit answers of senior members
Sometimes I notice any small typing mistake in an answer by a much senior member compared to myself. Mostly what one does is to point out the mistake in a comment and they can fix it with a thanks ...
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Does consecutively editing a post, inserting single lines, discourage other answers from being posted? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Fastest Gun in the West Problem
Make first draft of a new answer part of the permanent revision history
I noticed something odd earlier today. I drafted a long answer to a ...
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Editing an answer to change the answer
Yesterday I answered a question: Here is my answer
Then me and another SO user argued about the correctness and possible problems that might occur if the question owner uses it. All these argument ...
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Undo a revision [duplicate]
I was just curious, if I make an edit, then realize that my edit made a question or answer to be incorrect: is there a way to revert back to the original other than editing it again, back to the ...
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Is it fair to edit a question I've answered to bump it to the top of the questions list?
Hey all-
I discovered recently that any questions I edit get put back up at the top of the questions queue. This means that if I answered a question and didn't feel like I got enough upvotes, I ...
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What is the etiquette for changing the substance of a question?
After answering a question the other day I came across an unusual situation.
The content of the answers received prompted the original poster to change edit their question (both title and content) ...