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Dealing with abusive use of editing on one's own questions
Consider it handled. I warned user to stop, and I/we will suspend if it continues. Thanks for reporting.
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Should remove "Thanks" in the question or not?
In my opinion a sentence like "thank you" does not add anything to the question, as also introductions (like "I'm a newbie" additions) do not add valuable information.
I tend to remove "Thank you" ...
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Is there a limit for Edit
Good question, I was going to ask something along these lines as well. So I can't give you a definite answer, but my opinion:
I consider searching for common spelling errors to edit them bad behavior ...
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Edit just for earning reputation?
I'd even consider these edits harmful. They are using quotes to highlight random paragraphs which are not remotely quotes.
What to do in such a case? Flag one of the answers/questions for moderator ...
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My edit suggestion get rejected without reason. Why?
I just corrected the spellings only for the words
DESIGN and CHANGE.
"only", that's the point. There are so many grammatical errors in the post that fixing two small typos is not really an ...
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Should remove "Thanks" in the question or not?
I leave "Thanks" lines in questions, but I've no problem if it is removed along with other edit (fixed tags or other stuff), but it makes no sense to edit questions just to remove this.
Actually "...
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Should remove "Thanks" in the question or not?
You have mentioned two different scenario
Keep Thanks as a editor
Reviewer of edit
In first scenario you keep "Thank you" It's ok For me as well site (I think)
In the second scenario if editor ...
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How do we prevent/discourage users to keep editing question/answer for no reason?
First of all, is this the right place to post these kind of qsts?
Yes. What you can do is flag one of these questions for moderator attention and explain the issue in the "other" text field. The mods ...
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Why my edit suggestion is rejected?
I would have rejected it too, as I did it in the past with many of your suggestions IIRC. Thanks for bringing this up here, so I can address the issue directly:
There are edit suggestions that do not ...
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How do we prevent/discourage users to keep editing question/answer for no reason?
Its good that you have reported this.
Stackexchange has a number of self correction mechanisms to prevent such behaviour. It seems we found a weakness here.
Probably after flagging the post for ...
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Is there a limit for Edit
I think it's the reviewer's responsibility to not let these kind of useless (although correct) minor changes be published and would also prevent necroposting.
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How do we prevent, discourage, or punish users for making pointless edits to questions?
@WackGet Thanks for contacting us.
We have contacted the user and asked him to stop such behavior.
Amit BeraMod
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Deadlink (404) editing post
Can user edit that post or not.
yes, you can edit those dead(404) links .
If editable then why community members are rejecting that edit?
If any community member rejects then they did the mistake....
Amit BeraMod
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Is there a limit for Edit
And earning from edit only also not good Because from editing you are
not providing new things to community.
I agree with everything except above line in this thread. I believe he still contributes ...
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My edit suggestion get rejected without reason. Why?
This edit should be approve. My Suggestion to @liyakat and @vaibhav ahalpara, should approve this suggestion.This edit-suggestion have usefully for The community.So, please invest more time for ...
Amit BeraMod
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Is there a limit for Edit
5 hours and 120 rep wow good speedy work. actually problem is that we only see the edit not who is editing this and off-course reviewer have no time for that too in my opinion . I think this blog post ...
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Is the date of the question relevant when reviewing suggested edits?
i think formating is necessary for question and answer. if the question or answer is formated then it is easy to read and understand so i always approve this kind editing.
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What should I do when a question has been incorrectly marked as duplicate?
The best (and only) thing to do is to post here in Meta for us to review. I have reopened and added a comment to the answer to signify that it is due to the version you are running.
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How do we prevent/discourage users to keep editing question/answer for no reason?
Having started to become more active on Magento StackExchange from being a regular contributor at Stackoverflow I can say for a fact that the quality of the content on this site is terrible. I often ...
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Is there a limit for Edit
I've answered a similar question a while ago on Ask Ubuntu Meta. Although the question was worded differently, I think it is still valid here.
Basically, other than the daily cap of 200 rep, you ...
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How do we prevent/discourage users to keep editing question/answer for no reason?
There is nothing wrong with someone submitting a tag edit. I would suggest you approach the particular user in SE chat and ask them what their rationale is. IIRC you have the ability to reject the ...
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Overenthusiastic use of backticks to emphasize phrases
I rolled back quite a few of these edits when I encountered them or if there were other useful changes, reverted the incorrect backtick usage. I have to admit that I use the inline code style not only ...
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How to prevent strange edits and why users approve it?
@Siarhey Uchukhlebau
thanks for your information, we will look into it.
Deadly's edits does not improvement content. We will contact him.
Amit BeraMod
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How to flag pointless edits
flag the post with i need of moderator intervention
write your detail summary then @amitbera and @marius can take proper action for that user
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Editing questions which are on hold
If a question is on hold, editing it would be of big value for us. Only a few moderators are taking the time to edit them. Most times the question is on hold, because the moderators saw no way to ...
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Reverted edit results in negative reputation?
I can see the + and the - items in your rep page. See the top and bottom entries.
.
But it seems to me that there is something wrong with your rep calculation.
I ran this very ugly but effective js ...
MariusMod
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My edit suggestion get rejected without reason. Why?
I am the one who approve this edit,
But in past I have rejected many edits done by you , because your edit may conflict with authors intent.
You are editing post basis on authors comments I ...
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Useless edits - removing "hello"
Let them Edit all questions to make small improvements - 1 year old , 2 year old, 10 year old, but the main Problem is everytime someone edit , the question display in Home page....
What i Suggest :
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Useless edits - removing "hello"
I am forever seeing pointless edits that seem to only be made for the sake of increasing badges or points. For example making the word product bold, the same person has done this many times today. A ...
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How to write edit on post
In my opinion purpose of edit should be to make post more easier to read and understand, without harming the post. After edit the intent of post should be same as before.
One should not edit any post ...
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