Timeline for Should I refrain from correcting syntax/coding errors in answers? It seems like they aren't encouraged
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| Jul 28, 2017 at 18:02 | comment | added | André Christoffer Andersen | @JeffSchaller I would argue that the vast majority of people who need the information never venture into the edit history. Also, there are plenty of cases where people add edit notes to make things clear because of the dynamic nature of the Q&A. Take this extremely popular answer by Jon Skeet: stackoverflow.com/a/176274/604048 He added a note because of the comments, as I did. If such additions is reason for rejecting an edit at U&L, then it should IMO be stated very clearly as a warning in the answer edit form, and usage of it should be purged from existing answers in general. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 1:21 | comment | added | Gavin S. Yancey | @AndréChristofferAndersen An html comment is a cleaner way of making sure your edit hits the minimum char limit. | |
| Jul 18, 2017 at 10:59 | comment | added | JdeBP | It does not match because in that circumstance one does not reject the edit. One cuts out the "edit" part and then approves the edit. | |
| Jul 18, 2017 at 0:47 | comment | added | Jeff Schaller Mod | @AndréChristofferAndersen to (1): the edit history (and timeline) of a question is always available, and (2) if you can't find 5 other characters to edit, consider alerting the chat room, where a 2k+ user may see it and be able to act on it without needing to meet the char limit. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 22:17 | comment | added | André Christoffer Andersen | @Kaz There are two reasons for the extra text: 1) Oftentimes edits need to explicitly clarified so that the discussion in the comments give sense to new readers. Here there was talk in the comments about the command not working, and an argument even broke out. I added the note because I wanted it to be very clear that the argument was resolved, and the command was now correct. 2) There is often a minimum character limit to how small an edit can be on SE sites, I was afraid a one char change would be automatically rejected. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 19:31 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek Mod | Personally I would go with "Improve" over "Reject" in this situation, but yes, adding the edit line is unnecessary. Instead flag the comments as obsolete and we'll just get rid of them | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 18:21 | history | answered | Kaz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |