Questions tagged [editing]
Editing is a core, fundamental Stack Exchange value; we allow editing by registered and unregistered users (if peer reviewed).
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Is "Hope this was helpful!" too chatty in an answer?
In general, we remove "chatty" phrases like "Thanks in advance" in questions as unnecessary for the site. Should we apply the same standard to answers and remove things like "...
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Preventing edit wars
There's an edit war going on in Smart Tic Tac Toe, a reinforcement learning approach . Every edit by one high-rep user is being reverted by the OP with no explanation, and he (sigh) offers this:
keep ...
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How to correct typos?
When I try to correct a typo, I get the following error:
Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?
Are typos not worth it to correct?
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Should we improve the code to be reviewed in an edit?
I noticed this suggest edit:
This suggested edit does two things:
Replace using namespace std;, which is considered bad practice in C++, with ...
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Rollback reason
Quite often I roll back the edit because the code was edited after the answer was posted. In such situation I feel obliged to post a comment why did I rolled it back. Not a biggie, but annoying. Can ...
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On/off-topicness of "conclusions" added to the original question
I wonder what is your opinion about on/off-topicness of conclusions added to the original question like it has be done here at the bottom?
Should such edits be rejected and a self-answer posted ...
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Can an OP add missing keyword(s) to code?
In Recursive conversion from ExpandoObject to Dictionary<string, object> the OP omitted the keyword private, and after ...
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Peculiar application of [reinventing-the-wheel] tag on my question
My question has been edited by a moderator to include the tag reinventing-the-wheel.
Allthough I did state
I am not relying on libraries like cats even if they might already provide solutions for ...
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An edit of mine was rolled back and the question locked
I asked this question:
Templated division by a power of 2
and did not include an #include directive before my actual code. An answer noted the ...
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Does a question with (a lot of) OP response to a posted review qualify for a rollback?
I'm not really sure whether this question where OP has added a lot of feedback about one of the reviews actually qualifies for a rollback.
The code is not changed and OP also hasn't added any ...
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Should we allow answer invalidation for otherwise off-topic questions? [duplicate]
We recently had a question with un-compilable code. The question was answered and the answerer pointed out the broken code. The user has since edited the question to fix the code. It was rolled-back.
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JavaScript concepts applying to JSX posts
Many posts are tagged with jsx as well as javascript and sometimes ecmascript-6, but then those latter tags are often removed by others.
While I understand that jsx is not syntactically valid ...
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How should question bodies be organized?
The format that I know for question bodies is:
Intro, often explaining where the problem originated.
A problem statement explaining what the code is supposed to do.
Perhaps a little more ...
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Is it allowed to edit code if there is no answer?
If I have kept working on the code, and there are no answers (say one week after the original post), am I allowed to edit the code to reflect the changes I have made to it?
I believe this question is ...
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Unmodified question looks modified
This is maybe the fourth time I noticed this scenario since the start of this year, so I am curious to know if you have an explanation:
When I clicked on Questions, I saw this:
But when I clicked to ...
