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Over 54,000 questions with no answers!
We have over 54,000 questions with no answers, this feels somewhat like a concern to me.
Some other ideas than just answering include:
Give bounties to the highest voted questions, helping them get ...
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Do we care about edit flooding? Should we be doing anything?
Edit flooding is the term I'm using for when a single user (or small group of users) perform a lot of edits in a small space of time and effectively take over the front page - pushing a lot of new ...
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Editing of recently closed questions
This post is basically to share something I came across on Meta Unix & Linux. Kusalananda♦, a moderator there, posted Editing questions recently put on hold (don't). The gist is something that I ...
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OP edited question substantially after answer(s) were posted
Yesterday, for the second time in the past three months, I answered a question,
only to get a response from the OP saying, in effect,
This answer was correct when you posted it.
I’ve changed the ...
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What steps can I take to check and improve lower quality questions?
It is sometimes unclear in which way a question should be handled. What can I do to check why excactly it doesn't meet our standards? What could I do to inform the user and improve it to be of higher ...
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Did I create, then fail my own review audit?
I encountered this question in the Reopen queue. At the time, it looked like this. I suspected it might not be worthy of re-opening, so instead of using Edit and Reopen I opened the question in a ...
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What time of the day is Super User getting the least traffic?
Due to the recent discussion about edit flooding, and one possible counter measure mentioned by @Grace Note ...
You may consider that it is often wiser to perform massive edit jobs during low ...
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Are we/you strongly opposed to using **bold**?
Background: I suggested to emphasize the real answer in this answer about password checking ("you supply both the old and the new password") by making it bold. The suggestion was accepted, but ...
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This question was closed-as-dup but the accepted answer is out-of-date
Google brought me to this question:
Is there a way to identify the busy (CPU-consuming) tab in Firefox?
But that question is marked as a duplicate of this one:
How to find out which firefox tab is ...
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Can Moderators See Edits Made to Answers Within 5 Minutes?
Can moderators etc. can see edits made within 5 minutes?
I ask because I answered a question one minute after someone else but they quickly changed their answer to include information from mine. But ...
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Should non-substantial edits be approved or rejected?
Should we accept/improve edit suggestions where the editors could obviously have done more?
Example 1: Fixing only one letter
Take this edit suggestion as an example. The only difference between the ...
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Is a suggested edit that completely rewrites an answer appropriate?
I asked a question a few months ago that was answered very succinctly. I thought the answer fit perfectly; it had the exact amount of information that someone with the same problem would need to ...
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Editing privileges suspended - reactivated at 2k rep
My account had editing privileges suspended for 7 days for rejected edits. I hit 2,000 reputation and I gain the privileged to edit questions and answers without another user's review AND the ...
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Is bumping a question OK?
Is it OK to bump a question that received not enough attention (tumbleweed candidate) to the top using an edit?
If so under which circumstances?
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Is it appropriate to edit "very" old posts?
I ended up here because it was in the related links of a new question. The original version made be pull a face, so I've adjusted it. However, given it has been accepted and unedited for about 7 ...
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TrickleEdit: Queuing edits to prevent flooding
Is there a thing to queue edits and automatically apply them slowly (assuming there hasn't been a preempting edit)?
— Ben N on chat
Let's write a script!
StackApps (placeholder): https://stackapps....
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Editing others' posts - guidelines / etiquette?
I've just hit the 2000rep mark, and can now edit questions (hurrah! woot! etc, etc...).
But, I'm a little uneasy about editing other people's posts, as it's not something I've really experienced ...
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Is editing being abused?
I never noticed this practice on stackoverflow or serverfault, but I noticed on superuser that some users will answer a question if a placeholder that either barely or does not answer the question it ...
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Should we edit link only answers?
There's lots of them around, and most times I comment asking the OP to edit the answer and add more detail. However there are some cases where the OP isn't around, but the answer is still valid (...
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Does having edit privileges allow me to approve edits from others?
Pre-2000 reputation - Every time I edited a post I needed to await attention before it could be approved. I 100% agree with this rule.
Post-2000 reputation - I can edit any post without waiting for ...
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Further peer review required for edit
A week ago, I came across this question, and the answer by Steven Stevenson:
Windows 7 desktop icons are blank
When I first noticed the answer, it was just a wall of text. So I decided to make the ...
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Should the original intent of a question be broadened to make the answers more canonical?
A question about Markdown editors with live preview is specific to Mac OS X, but several other answers, including mine, discuss applications that run on other operating systems.
Is it appropriate to ...
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How do I make the distinction between editing an answer to add content (detail) vs. just answering that question?
I have a question that has the right answer, but it's not very detailed:
How do Optical/Laser Mice work?
I'm at a dilemma here, I want to give the answerer the rep that he deserves as he is correct, ...
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What's up with "Window XP" and "Window 7"?
Editing notice:
Please don't edit and bump posts that are old, have no answers, low views, and are generally of low quality. Vote to close or delete, and/or flag them for moderator attention to have ...
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Managing user who edit only tags of several questions
In the recent few days I've reviewed dozens of tag edit proposals made by a single user.
Some of his edits really improves the quality of the question. Although majority of them, despite adding ...
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Incorporating more information from comments while editing
Editing guidelines (for example this meta question) do not give any information about incorporating additional information from comments.
For example, while editing this, there is additional rather ...
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Removing "Thank you"'s from questions
I have often seen the removal of phrases like "thank you" that mostly newer users, especially 1-rep users, tend to append to their questions.
I even do this myself, mostly because it seems to be a ...
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How should I handle ranting in answers?
I removed a rant from this answer. Is this the right thing to do or should I take some other action?
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Requesting clarity on edits that update redirecting URLs
I frequently edit posts that include redirecting microsoft.com URLs. My reasoning is generally that a redirecting link today may be a broken link tomorrow, so as long as the redirect has preserved the ...
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Official policy for editing code in answers?
In another Meta discussion about suggested edits, Mokubai♦ posted the following:
With code related edits if I do not know what the edit is doing or if
it changes the output of the code in ...
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When should additional information be an edit vs a comment vs a separate answer?
Should links and excerpts from relevant documentation be an edit or should they be a comment or should they be an separate answer?
Sometimes I find a helpful answer with a great example of the use of ...
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Edit to correct a basic path syntax error in an answer rejected - why?
I found an answer that was helpful but had a syntax error in the path. I made the correction (so that the answer as-written would at least be accurate in this regard) and it got rejected apparently ...
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What is the proper procedure for us laypeople to edit an answer?
How do I get rid of adware from Search Conduit/White Smoke?
A few days ago, I had this question answered with the assistance of another user. His answer did not entirely solve my problem, however. ...
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Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate
Inspired by a similar question on meta.stackoverflow, I just did this database query on superuser, and found 103 pairs of questions with totally identical title, excluding those where one of them is ...
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Requesting guidance on the use of backtick formatting with manpage names
This question is partially inspired by a rejected edit to this post.
In the answers, inline backtick formatting is used for manpage titles such as mount(8) and sudoers(4). In the question, it is not. ...
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Suggestion for a system to vote on edits
Edits on Super User are very important, it gives sense to many questions and answers here and I think it deserves a good stimulus (such as "Editor" and "Copy Editor" badges), but in my humble opinion ...
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Edit Recommendations
While clearing up some obsolete tags I recently flagged an answer as "Not An Answer". The answer is a link only answer posted by the asker.
The flag was declined with the following message:
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how do I view revisions to a question?
how do I view revisions to a question (presumably including tag changes)?
do I need a certain rep amount, if so how much?
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Editing answers to closed questions?
This question is closed almost six years ago, however it now has 3 answers edited within one day.
Edits are 1 2 and 3.
All of them are done by the same user with currently around 200 reps.
My ...
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Editing others' questions: etiquette issue with partially off-topic questions?
The quidelines for editing say don't change the meaning. And it's reasonable and just. But what about questions like this one: "Should I buy webcam of 720p or VGA quality?"
The first part, where the ...
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Can't new users edit their own questions without approval?
Found this question with a suggested edit pending edit. But it looks like it's the OP that has done the edit. Shouldn't this be approved automatically?
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Why can we only edit our comments for the first five minutes after posting?
I sometimes come across comments that I have typed quickly or on a mobile device or simply without paying enough attention and they have spelling mistakes or typos. Since I can only edit my comments ...
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How do I force a peer review for my edit when I already have editing privileges?
How do I force my edit through the peer review system (for example, when I'm not sure if I did it right) when I already have editing privileges?
It seems like creating peer review requests is a rare ...
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What is a substantial Edit?
I have just made my first attempted edit of a post here other than my own and I am confused on what a substantial edit is because the edit appears to be rejected because the my edit was not "...
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TrickleEdit test question 2
As asked by @Bob in TrickleEdit test question:
This is a test question used while developing an extension.
Please do not upvote or downvote this question.
This question will be deleted ...
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Are ampersands (&s) inappropriate in questions?
I'm somewhat puzzled by these edits:
https://superuser.com/posts/320217/revisions
Let's break them down:
Changing "w/" to "with"
Capitalizing "Medialink"
Changing "&" to "and"
Changing "E.g." ...
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Is it appropriate to merge comments back into the original question?
Consider this question. The question as originally posted was rather unspecific and ambigious, but the poster then clarified his intention in a comment.
From what I read here and on other ...
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Is there a point to editing a question that should be moved to another SE site?
Sometimes I come across questions that really belong on another Stack Exchange site (usually Stack Overflow) that also have serious formatting, spelling and / or grammatical errors.
Is there a ...
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Is it okay to point readers to the edit history of an answer for old, (mostly) out-of-date information?
Background: For the last year or so, new features for Windows Subsystem for Linux (currently my primary area of expertise here) have been limited to Windows 11. With a recent release of WSL last week,...
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Placing a user's comment in their own post [duplicate]
I can't really think of a specific title for this since it's only just grown on me and I can't find anywhere else so rename if needed, and sorry in advance.
So I was on this post I messed up my PC, ...
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