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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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What time of the day is Super User getting the least traffic?

Here are some usage statistics from Quantcast, which is used to track usage of SE sites (you'll see it as a tracking pixel when you check the loaded resources for each page). Unfortunately, I haven …
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Question about editing an answer

We welcome edits of posts of any age, there are even badges as reward for editing older posts. So it's not like those are an excepted from the collaborative editing on the site. … The user in question does not yet have editing privileges, the suggestion has been approved by two more experienced users (and rejected by one). …
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Should the original intent of a question be broadened to make the answers more canonical?

It depends probably more on the answers than the question. Questions should only be broadened in scope if the answers that are given, or can be given, are equally applicable. This requires that the …
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What in the world is a "code block"?

A code block is what you used to quote the error message above. I am a code block. My text contents are printed *verbatim* in a typewriter font. New lines are printed just like in the source text. To …
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7 votes
1 answer
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Differences between plain-text diff and formatted diff

I wondered about the following editing diff in a recent post of mine: I clearly added a sentence to the end of the paragraph, but the diff thinks I added something between the three final words. …
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1 answer
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Click handling on post preview inconsistent and confusing

If I click the preview pane for an existing post I'm editing inline... Nothing happens. The current text area loses focus. …
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Is there an "Approve" option on SU for edits made to my input?

You can only approve (or decline) suggested edits by users who do not yet have the required editing privileges to perform regular edits. … So, yes, there is an approve button, but only when the editing user does not yet have at least 2000 reputation. …
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4 votes
1 answer
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Empty editing description of post's first revision

Even if it's revision 1, the original post, with no editing description. …
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4 votes
1 answer
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Is the question's last activity relevant for editing, or accepting suggested edits?

Is the last activity date of a topic relevant in deciding whether a given change makes the relevance threshold when editing, or deciding on a suggested edit? … Are smaller, less important edits fine with recently active topics, or do we not care about the changes to the front page when editing and use the same significance rule for all edits? …
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PDF tag wiki uneditable

class="lsep">|</span><a href='#' id='show-wiki-excerpt'>show excerpt</a><span class="lsep">|</span><a href="/posts/230636/revisions">excerpt history</a></div> <br class="cbt"> The PDF tag wiki editing
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Link redirects from answers?

That site apparently uses the HTTP referer header which is part of an HTTP request initiated by clicking a link to redirect your request. Not so in Safari 5, which seriously broke tabbed browsing, it …
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