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Anything related to the editing feature, e.g. anonymous edits, suggested edits, the editing privilege, edit history, etc.

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How to correct some spelling mistakes while there's a limitation: said edits must be at leas...

You can always find something else to correct - in this snippet I'd maybe change "the key of the receiving party" or 'the used password" to the password they have used, and include that you've done t …
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TrickleEdit: Queuing edits to prevent flooding

What I'd like to see as a minimum is what's essentially a queue for editing out a tag, and running it by time. …
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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 w …
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Edit someone else's question vs approve edit, reputation wise

Its by design. People did bad reviews, and as such they made the initial one review to accept into two, improving and Approving would let you immediately approve a post. The idea is that a robo revie …
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9 votes

Send message in private in Superuser

There's no private messaging system - in fact, for most part SE's designed to minimise private interaction. The closest thing we have to a private messaging system for regular users is chat (And I don …
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6 votes

Is there a point to editing a question that should be moved to another SE site?

The most important rule of migration is don't migrate crap. So yes, feel free to edit them before you vote to or flag to migrate.
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3 votes

Motivation to answer low-trafic complicated questions?

SO isn't SU - just cause they're all stackexchange sites dosen't make you a subject expert on all of them. I have 70K here. Does that make me a great programmer? (Nope. I have 210 rep, mostly from co …
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4 votes
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Requesting clarity on edits that update redirecting URLs

Pointing out that the links are redirected and you're editing them specifically so they don't go stale would likely ensure they're accepted. …
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4 votes

Are these question edits okay or did I take it too far?

So, this is a tough one. I don't think person asking the question was aware of the other question and without being OP - its hard to tell if they had a full sized or mini SD card for example. . I get …
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18 votes
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Managing user who edit only tags of several questions

Some background here. The user's currently trying to work his way out of a question ban, and well, he's being somewhat enthusiastic about it. There's a few questions here by him on the topic. I stro …
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2 votes

Are edits for just filling in image descriptions accepted?

Editing to fix something 90% of our users will never see seems pointless. One exception might be if the question would be of interest to someone who uses a screen reader, in which case, go ahead. …
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2 votes
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Should old opinion-based questions be significantly edited?

Eh, mayb, but you can't save them all. I've totally posted an answer to a question that could be POB with... a lot of detail and graphs and even a link to a spreadhseet On the other hand, as someone …
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1 vote

What to do with a question about a script for Windows XP that became a list of different typ...

Do we really need to? Its different 'portable' approaches to a problem, and it isn't explicitly a gimme a codez question. Its also not a 'clear' software recommendation - but recommending software and …
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6 votes

What to do when an answer seems like it was copied from somewhere else?

If you're not sure, a custom flag wouldn't be a bad idea to get someone to review it. In this case, the user clearly didn't understand the question, and there were a few telltale signs of it being fro …
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8 votes
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Too many edits issue. Post-ban support

You keep hitting on the automatic limits we can't do anything about. No we cannot remove these limits and they are automatic and there's no way to undo them. The official line here is you'll just have …
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