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What to do when an answer seems like it was copied from somewhere else?
I came across an answer on a question that looked rather suspicious. For context, the user has 1 reputation, with only a few answers on a couple of other sites.
The answer in question was posted on an ...
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Viewing change history to questions on superuser.com
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As a regular user (i.e. not the OP or subsequent editor), is it possible to see what changes were made to a question (or one of its answers) on https://superuser.com?
Example
In a search for ...
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Is my redacting potentially harmful links the "right" action?
I've redacted the links in this question, because
they did not link directly to content, but to a website from which to download the content
the website in question opened advertisement popups with ...
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What reputation is required for tag edits without approval?
I thought tag edits can be done with 5000 reputation. Am I mistaken? My edit is still waiting for an approval.
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Accidental rollback - any penalties involved?
If my edit gets rolled back, will there be a (relevant) negative log associated with my account? If so can the roll back be undone if it has been applied by accident?
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"Modified by" listed but no edit visible by mentioned user?
It already happened a few times to me that I saw an answer pushed to the Home -> active page with the note "modified x minutes ago USER".
For example this question What is the meaning of "chmod ...
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How to do better edits in the future?
When reading such answers, I find it useful to:
have the answer edited when an obsolete link is dead (the second link is dead)
have screenshots to quickly see how the GUI looks like (the question is ...
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My question already exists on here (without an answer, yet), so I improved that post instead of posting the question again but the edit was rejected
I have a question, which already exists as a question on here: xterm copy to PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD independently However, unfortunately, there is no answer, yet. So I tried to improve that existing ...
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Im Losing a lot of rep to edits that are not really necessary
I'm getting a lot of edits that are personal opinion, like the order of words, where I put links (see THIS example). Is there any way I can not accept the edits? There was also some capitalization, ...
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OP edits the question himself instead of accepting a suggested edit.
First of all, I am not reaching out to the person who did this to disadvantage him.
Basically what happend is, the OP asked a question. I suggested some little edits to improve the formatting. ...
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Edit someone else's question vs approve edit, reputation wise
There is this question asked where the user doesn't have enough reputation to post images. I usually edit the post to add the image so I can then start to answer the question normally.
I have plenty ...
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I accidentally edited a question that is not mine, how can I delete it?
I accidentally, thinking it is my question, wanted to update with how the info was going on. I was meanwhile looking at very similar questions to see if I can find any help or update there, this is ...
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Flag or revert an edit?
Is there any mechanism in place to flag an edit for a review or revert an edit someone made? Would it be appropriate to submit an edit to reverse a change?
This question arose because I stumbled ...
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Why can I edit everyone's posts?
I do not have 50 reputation to comment, but I can click "edit" everywhere.
Of course, I do not modify other people's posts, but why can I do this?
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Why is my comment locked from editing & how can I modify it?
I have commented on an user's answer to my question here & I wish to modify it
but the edit button is missing/doesn't exist
Why is my comment locked from editing & how can I modify it ...
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Too many edits issue. Post-ban support
Scenario
I was banned the past year in 2014. I have a post-ban in which I can't ask any question in superuser.com.
Here are two discussions about my problem:
Am I a victim of any sort of ...
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How to answer NO to "Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?"
I performed a formatting edit to Weird drive popped up randomly. The site is prompting me with "Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?". Since is a ...
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Edit is disabled? [duplicate]
I noticed that the Edit button is disabled (greyed out and not clickable) when viewing posts:
I'm having trouble locating information on why that might happen (Googling is returning lots of ...
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Why are edits that enforce site policy rejected?
The Stack Exchange has a policy against tags in the title.
Why are edits that enforce site policy rejected?
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Why can’t I edit this question but I can still edit others?
I don’t have the magically 2,000+ to actually edit content independently, but why can’t I edit this quite obviously messed up post:
Cannot access the Internet even though it shows to be connected on ...
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Is there any way to provide feedback to proposers and reviewers of editors?
A user kindly proposed this edit, and two other users approved it:
https://superuser.com/revisions/308130/5
Despite the facts that it contains erroneous formatting (it puts the code backticks around ...
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How to correct some spelling mistakes while there's a limitation: said edits must be at least 6 characters
How to correct some spelling mistakes while there's a limitation that said
Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?
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Do you really always need to make an edit summary?
I just tried to edit a question with poor spelling and no punctuation. Why does this require an edit summary? I believe I have seen edits without edit summary. Does this have something to do with my ...
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Can someone explain how I got +2 rep points for editing this question
Can someone explain how I got +2 rep points for editing this question:
Excel Document Size is at 0KB, can't be opened
This is someone else's question.
I did not post an answer to the ...
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Error: "body must be at least 30 characters" when editing an answer
I tried to edit an answer of someone else and got this message:
Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:
body must be at least 30 characters; you entered 19
It's this answer: ...
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Can other users edit my posts without my approval?
Is it possible for other users to edit StackExchange posts without the approval of the post's original author? I'm concerned that some of my posts (and those of other users) may be altered in ways ...
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Is there some program that searches SuperUser for bad words in posts?
Earlier tonight I posted something asking about MediaWiki and I tried to ask "how do I do that" but I accidentally typed "hoe do I do that". I realized this because one of the site admins edited the ...
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Edit that's less than 6 characters
If I try to queue an edit for someone else's post changing only 2 or 3 characters, the system doesn't let me save it. But there are cases in which changing only 2 or 3 characters changes the full ...
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Is there a way to cancel an edit?
I happened to edit a question just as someone else did. Their edit was much more clear, but mine ended up being accepted. Is there a way I can cancel an edit while it's being peer reviewed?
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Why do some answers don't have edit link?
Currently in this answer of question 226923 I am seeing that there is no link to edit the answer, whereas just below that answer I can see that there is link to edit that answer.
Both answers are ...
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Link redirects from answers?
Not sure if there's a problem... I had a link in this response: How do I convert a .vhd disk image to work with VMWare Fusion 2?
The link was edited out with a claim as too many redirects. I checked ...
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Does retagging count as an edit?
When you retag a question, it displays on the question as an edit. However, does it actually count as an edit (such as toward the Strunk & White or Copy Editor badges)?
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Under what circumstances is an edit summary required?
I was editing a post (now deleted, and I am sure that that has something to do with it) and it asked me for an edit summary of ten characters.
Under what circumstances would I need to provide such a ...
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When people give good answers to the wrong question
I asked this question last night just before going to bed. In summary, the question was "Why does my browser ask me before it will make an HTTPS connection?"
I've got two answers now, but both have ...
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Conflicting edits are allowed. Warning needed?
When a user starts editing a post while another user is also editing, the edits of first committer is lost, since the last commit overwrites the previous ones.
Happened in this answer. See the ...
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Users with less than 2k rep cannot edit meta posts
I've edited a number of posts this week, using suggested edits because I don't have 2k on SU yet. It just occurred to me that MSU might also have some posts in need of cleanup, so I came by to check.
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How to know how many edits where made on my question?
Is there a way to know how many edits were made on one of my posts?
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Preview does not accurately represent code
<pre> tags are lined up with my bullet indents in the code preview, but not in the answer.
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Edit tags on migrated question
This question has been migrated to Stack Overflow (you'll probably have to search on [macro] to see the stub), and now because of the bad decision to link it directly to that question on SO, it can't ...
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How do I revert, undo, or reverse my own edit?
Yesterday on stackoverflow I accidentally edited someone's answer instead of my question.
I added an "Update: " and saved it then realized my mistake, and edited again, took that edit out and put it ...
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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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