I think (following the cd incident) that retags, as a maintenance operation, should not bump the question to the front page. What do you think?
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4or in general, you can wait for community consensus, and space out the edits.– Journeyman Geek ModCommented Feb 24, 2012 at 14:39
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Retagging can change the meaning of a post, and is an operation that requires community review. That's why they're bumped. related topic on MSO.– Daniel Beck ModCommented Feb 24, 2012 at 20:28
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There's a proper way to do retags - make a proposal, wait for community consensus, create a list of questions that should be edited, and look at editing the questions gradually. I've done this a few times - for example, with respect to SAS, and i believe MC.
Editing old posts shouldn't be that common, IMO - the one case where it was necessary was when we had to fix image links.
I'd note that i've only seen someone get temporarily banned for overenthusiastic editing once, so its not a huge problem.
answered Feb 24, 2012 at 14:47
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„I'd note that i've only seen someone get temporarily banned for overenthusiastic editing once” — was that me? Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 14:53
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I seem to remember the user being called MUST DO RETAGS, or something to that vein.– Journeyman Geek ModCommented Feb 24, 2012 at 14:56
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Then it was not me. I was
URGE TO RETAG(only on meta though) Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 14:58 -
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2Or, if the retags can be done all at once, post the proposal here on meta & a moderator can carry forwarding with the mass retag– Sathyajith Bhat ModCommented Feb 24, 2012 at 15:14