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I'm not sure if there's already an existing term for this, so I'm inventing my own. (tl;dr: I call them "chameleon questions" because they change every time you submit or edit an answer. … start a new question? …

Instead, work on improving your existing questions by editing them to comply with the site's guidelines and address any feedback you've received. … You can also continue to contribute to the site in other ways, such as editing other posts to improve them. …

I can't make any kind of intelligent decision because I can't see the other answers to the question, for instance. There's no Looks Good, only Skip, and those feel different to me. … Two or three "the post was already approved; please visit to edit" and I'm just "screw this whole thing". …

I had a look at some similar questions here on Meta: Should I ask a new question, or edit the existing? Edit code or post new question? … Now, by accident, I found another, shorter code sample which seems to be more effective to reproduce the problem and therefore I'm wondering if I should edit the existing question or start a new one with …

I asked a technical question in Stackoverflow ( How can I get inline-block to render consistently when applied to table cells? ) and gave what I thought was a good example to illustrate my question. … Should I edit my question original question to provide extra clarification, a more robust example, and take back the accepted answer? Or should I pose a new question? …

A very recent change that has been deployed is preventing me from asking new questions or editing existing questions using Internet Explorer 11. (Yes, it is a supported browser.) … When asking a new question or editing an existing one, the tag bar appears in plain text, and the submit button is always disabled. Why is this happening? …

I asked this to get feedback on the community stance on whether the author is allowed to edit their (closed) question in such a way that it invalidates the existing answers. … What does the community think of an author's edit to salvage the question, which then invalidates existing answer(s)? Note: This question is more focused on how the community should handle the edit. …

I am trying to add a tag to a question on Stack Overflow because I feel the tag is needed and is an improvement over the generic tags on a question. … When doing so, I click edit, then add the tag, but am told I can not submit my edit unless I change at least 10 characters. Is there a way to edit the tags without editing the text? …

Recently, I tried editing this question, which was already properly answered. While researching about being unbanned I read that editing existing question was necessary. … I could try and edit it again, but now that I solved that question it's a bit odd to try and ask it again. …

Here's a question that is about the same topic as the one I want to ask: Is Telerik Extensions for ASP. NET MVC Free? … Should I create new question, or write an edit for the old one (the old one is not mine)? …

You do get the live tag preview (that you get when asking a question) for any new tags you add, but sometimes you want to check the tag wiki for the existing tags to make sure they are correct. … (I've found https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80678/tag-info-tooltip-displayed-behind-proposed-edit-window and Display Tag Excerpt Tooltips in Suggested Edits but these are not quite the same question …

Edit: Major edit that changes the whole point of the question, nullifying any existing answers, and openly marveling at inability of others to understand this trivial but super-important request. … Edit 2: Response to detracters, repeating what I already said in the comments. …

That sounds like the best way to "edit my existing questions" because in retrospect some of the things I asked have pretty obvious answers or nonsensical, unhelpful solutions. … Edit: I'm not trying to break the system. I'm trying to honestly, legitimately get out of a question ban. …

Steps to reproduce: Click to edit an existing question or answer here, in MSE. This question itself will do. … This would seem to be a dupe of Edit feature has misaligned process/tips suggestions sidebar, but it is happening here on MSE. …

A possible solution would be to only allow adding to an existing question when one or more answer has been added. Just a thought... … Others (with high enough reputation) can of course edit all the content if required. …