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User rolls back all edits to his question -- leave it alone?
Flagging for mod attention is useful. Adding a comment can also engage the user to get them to stop rolling back (as I have now done).
Some people are very protective of their "voice" and any edit ...
schroederMod
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Did I change the 'tone and focus' of this question with my edit?
My biggest problem is that the resulting edit has more your words than mine. There is no choice but to change tone when that happens.
You changed "terrible" to "wrong" and removed the entire text ...
schroederMod
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Should we transcribe screenshots of text?
I swear there was a better duplicate on another meta somewhere, but the best I can find now is this. I think most SE sites prefer text over images if it is the text that is relevant and the image isn'...
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Should IP adresses of presumed attackers be edited out of questions?
It is a fairly touchy question as both options have their good and bad sides.
I have seen a good 25-35% of IP related questions that get resolved much more easily when it is shown as is.
Askers ...
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Should we transcribe screenshots of text?
For reference, these are the Meta.SO QAs I typically refer to on discouraging screenshots in the first place and what to do when you see one. I certainly don't fix every post I come across, but I've ...
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Is adding data on behalf of the original author fine?
Actually, the author tried to add it to your answer and it got rejected by the community because it had no context.
In general, collaborating on posts is fine as long as everyone is ok with it. ...
schroederMod
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Should I edit my answer to improve it?
Oh... oh god yes. This isn't even a question. You should always edit to improve/update/complete/redo/any amount of other reasons. Sure it could change the score of the answer but that is EXACTLY what ...
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Should IP adresses of presumed attackers be edited out of questions?
In my opinion, we don't need to know the IP addresses, at least not in their complete form.
Maybe if those addresses are already blacklisted, and the OP doesn't know it, we could tell with some ...
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Policy on substantial edits from new accounts (OP's alter egos)
You just made the first step, and hopefully, our reviewers also read our meta.
Agreed, suggesting edits from same person accounts could be used to gain site reputation (say, only 10 reputation points ...
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Canonical question for "where should I store my server side secrets"?
I do think a canonical question would be in order, but I do not think that candidate is fitting. The answers are far too specific to secrets with the specific properties of encryption keys such that ...
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Should IP adresses of presumed attackers be edited out of questions?
No, we should generally leave them as-is
Having the full IP address would allow other users to:
Get its reverse host
Look up the owner of that address
Check for its presence in blacklists
Verify if ...
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How to keep an edit from "taking over question"
I would suggest your first paragraph is the problem here.
While you may think that you are providing useful information, it is a dramatic change to the question. Your second paragraph is absolutely ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Rejected edit: Rejected because it violated the "original intent" of the asker or just because it made dramatic changes to the question?
In my eyes, you took over the question. In your own words, you "removed an incorrect statement", which is beyond the scope of an editor. You also doubled the word count of the question (from 78 words ...
schroederMod
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Why is my edit attributed to another user?
The following happend:
We both were editing at the same time, but you submitted your edit first. So when I submitted mine it overwrote yours.
I saw what had happend, and thought your edit was much ...
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Moderator edit invalidated an answer
Where possible, we encourage the OP to include clarifying comments onto their post, or just edit them in. This goes not only for mods but for anyone with edit permissions.
And this is actually the ...
Rory AlsopMod
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What is the best practice for acronym usage in Questions/Answers/Comments?
The model I have been using is based on the fact that this is a site for Information Security professionals (yes, not only them, but that's the basis). If an acronym is within the standard Body of ...
schroederMod
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Edit comment language
While in general I agree - this is an English speaking site and we should ensure that all comments etc are in English - in this specific instance Shikata ga nai is the name of the tool that the editor ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Someone is stealing my edits
I don't think this is only about me, but I have rejected and improved at least one of your edits before. I don't remember which one it was, but it had some bad elements and minor good elements (which ...
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What caused this post to bump to the front page?
Yes, that user made an edit to his answer on that question. This is how StackExchange works.
schroederMod
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Confused about rejection of my edit
The edit failed to improve the post in any way. The link was for illustration purposes, and whether it was HTTPS or HTTP was immaterial, and the comments suggesting it be changes were irrelevant. ...
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Policy on substantial edits from new accounts (OP's alter egos)
In my opinion, new users aren't gaming the system. Instead, they are confused by the multiple login options provided... perhaps they are at a different computer and log in using FB on one, and Google ...
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Policy on substantial edits from new accounts (OP's alter egos)
Reputation gains from edits work only up to 2000 rep. An industrious user may pull it off once or twice (subject to actually doing 1000 edits, that all get accepted -- this is hard work), but repeated ...
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Approve an edit, removing the edited segment
Here are my thoughts on how to handle situations like this:
Do not roll back the roll back. That is just starting an edit war and will lead you nowhere.
You can leave a comment (as I did) and try to ...
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Moderator edit invalidated an answer
The reason I edited it was to include the details in the comments that the answer did not consider. Hence the need for an edit to the question to make sure that answers are in scope of the context of ...
schroederMod
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What is the appropriate way to handle posts requiring very minor edits?
Users who can edit without going into the suggested edit queue can make small edits like that. You can probably hop into the chat room and someone will take care of it for you.
The subject of minor ...
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6 character edit limit vs. side suggestions (suggesting minor fixes are fine)
I'm not sure that this limitation still applies when you are over 2000 rep. (I didn't checked it, but I think I may have made such small changes in a question while posting an answer or while ...
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6 character edit limit vs. side suggestions (suggesting minor fixes are fine)
Yes - the simple answer is that you should search for more errors.
While an incorrect "its" or "it's" makes my OCD twitch, your energy is best used somewhere where you can fix more than one or two ...
Rory AlsopMod
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How to edit this question?
I personally voted to keep it open, but I can understand why others voted to close it as to broad. My guess (and I can be wrong here) is that the highlighted part here is the problem:
Yes, a ...
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Editing misleading question, possibly against authors intention
This is the sort of thing to use comments for: to ask the poster for clarification. As the poster is the one closer to the situation than we are, it makes more sense that they provide the details ...
schroederMod
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