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Edit queue seems permanently blocked
Many Ask Ubuntu posts are in dire need of editing for basic grammar and clarity. I have the time and the ability to do just that for free. Yet for some reason there is a limit to the daily edits. Why? ...
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"You have too many pending edits"
I know what this means, but it has been like that for about 24 hours. Only once one of my edits was acknowledged, and then this message again. Are there so many pending edits that people are not being ...
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Why can't we edit comments?
I posted a comment, and I can't edit it anymore. Why?
We can edit questions, even after a while.
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Is translating posts using Google Translate acceptable?
I've seen several questions in non-English, where a user (typically high-rep) puts it into Google Translate. Here's an example (Wayback Machine if it gets deleted). I do realize that post had other ...
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Order of operations when editing/flagging
A bit of a question and a bit of a PSA for others to potentially avoid the problem I ran into.
This question was originally unclear. The title did not match the question body, and there was (...
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Which is better: editing someone's old but outdated answer to keep it up to date or making a new answer and adding a note to the old one?
I found a similar question in search but didn't feel that it answered this question.
Came up here:
My WiFi adapter is not working at all, how to troubleshoot?. I came across that answer while I was ...
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Please explain the rejected outcome for this suggested edit
I'm on a bit of an "edit rampage" on AskUbuntu.
According to https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/1183929 ...
Two users rejected my edit and cited:
The edit does not improve the ...
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Community consensus regarding using backticks or 4 spaces for code
There might be similar posts regarding this in the past. So, please forgive me.
I often find it hard to edit a post which has lengthy code (indented using 4 spaces). Also, there are higher chances of ...
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How much can an answer be modified before it should be its own entity?
An edit was in the review queue for this answer and it’s clear that the author of the edit is doing everyone a favour with the additional details being added:
Given how drastic the “hijack” of the ...
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Please don't flag link-only answers as Very Low Quality
Lately I notice that many link-only (or link-mainly) answers are being flagged as Very Low Quality, so I am taking to meta to ask y'all to use the Not An Answer flag for link-only answer (LOA) posts ...
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Using the keyboard markers for other things
I was using the <kbd> tag for version numbers, like Ubuntu 20.04 and @muru edited my question to remove the markers, saying
we don't need keyboard formatting for version numbers
Actually I was ...
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Is it right to edit an answer so that it's almost identical to an existing one?
Today I realized that someone had edited another person's answer so that it is now the same as my pre-existing answer.
Jordanka's answer to this question was edited by another user (as you can see, ...
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Editing: leave OP's original language [duplicate]
I was going to edit this post. My first thought was to delete the portion with the native language that OP posted. Googling it, it seems to be Norwegian. He provided a translation, that I was going to ...
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Why were my edit suggestions of fixing URL rejected?
I recently suggested a very small edit to a post fixing outdated URLs which were rejected 2 times with the same reason.
The rejection notice states:
Rejected 3 hours ago:
Kevin Bowen reviewed ...
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Why do we used byte instead of octet as data size unit?
I would like to understand why we seem to prefer to use the byte unit instead of octet unit (because I used more commonly the octet unit at work, at home, ...).
What are the reasons for describing ...
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Standards for editing
I've being an active member of AskUbuntu and Unix & Linux for some time now. As such, I often edit Q&As. But I'm lost in some aspects and details of specific editing standards.
This post and ...
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Editing posts: number of edits vs reputation
I'm still below the reputation to edit posts without them needed to be peer reviewed.
Suppose that I have 1000 approved edits.
Then comes along a user with enough reputation to edit posts without ...
ZannaMod
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What is the logic behind editors losing reputation when a question is removed?
Before marking this as a duplicate of this related question, take into account that my question is about the reason why this happens, not the cause of it, which is what the answer to that question ...
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Should abbreviations and acronyms be discouraged?
Sometimes, a question is not clear simply because it contains an abbreviation or acronym that a reader doesn't understand. I wonder if the instructions should encourage the definition of these things ...
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Should I edit or re-ask my question?
If I edit my question after attempting to fix a problem and the problem still exists does my question still get answered or do I have to re-ask the question?
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Can't format question properly because of character limit
I have a problem with editing this question:
Upgrade to 18.04, now sudo apt-get upgrade produces loads of insserv errors
OP didn't format the terminal output (which as you can see, is really long), ...
ZannaMod
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How much editing is fine? Removing hi, thanks etc
When editing posts, is it good or bad idea to remove introductions ("Hi, and I am new to here") and endings like ("Thanks in advance"), in addition to more important changes like multiple spelling ...
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Should I edit closed questions?
I have recently seen this question, where I see a spelling error in the title. I wanted to edit that, but I see that question was closed already. I am a bit confused to edit that title. Because ...
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Why do people post screenshots of their terminals?
I have noticed a lot of posts on AU with screenshots of their terminal showing commands and their output. This is seems like a very bad idea to me because:
You can't copy/paste the commands
They won'...
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Need to edit the content of a constantly changing canonical question
After I flagged this canonical question: Is a clean install better than upgrading? to be locked to prevent it from being deleted after it had already received 3 delete votes, my flag was reviewed as ...
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Please don't correct commands in questions unless you are sure the mistake is not the source of the problem
This might well be a dupe. If so, y'all know what to do ;)
When editing questions, make sure you don't eliminate all clues as to what was causing the problem by fixing incorrect commands, as this ...
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Should we roll up the details in this question into its title?
I was reading this question on my phone today: extreme slow wifi on ubuntu 16.04
Within the body I learned the WiFi card is a rtl8723be which I don't own. Had Realtek 8732be been in the title I ...
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Changing "yesterday", "today", etc in Title to actual date
I was recently inconvenienced by Titles or Question bodies that say "a couple of days ago", "Yesterday" or "Today" because I was forced to scroll down to see question asked date and do some mental ...
ZannaMod
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Should long questions be edited if parts prove irrelevant?
I posted a question with a fair amount of information as recommended. After some comments and a discussion in chat, I added some updates, and now the question is becoming too long. There will probably ...
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Does this sound a bit condescending?
I discovered this old answer thanks to an edit suggestion which may look somewhat unnecessary. The suggestion was to remove the following phrase from the answer
and read a basic bash programming ...
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Does the title of this question capture OP's question well enough?
OK, so we have this HNQ, which gathered quite a lot of attention, snarky comments, and a small edit war between me and another user about the title of the question. I've edited the answer to match the ...
ZannaMod
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What to do when posts are voted down for no reason?
It's really annoying, a user asked this question:
I am wondering what the point of sh being symbolic linked to dash is? I understand that dash is supposed to be faster than bash, but I am uncertain ...
ZannaMod
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What should I do when a user persistently insists on poor formatting and resists formatting improvements?
Context: https://askubuntu.com/posts/971884/revisions
I edited an answer of a user who got distracted and forgot the Markdown syntax, using 1) instead of 1. for writing an ordered list. Therefore the ...
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What to do with tag-only edits?
Here's the suggested edit in question.
The OP was asking about security on a shared WiFi connecton.
They had it tagged as 16.04, firefox, and security.
An edit came up that only changed the tag 16....
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Should I give extra information on an existing question when I have the same problem on a different version of Ubuntu?
I have a problem in my system. I searched for a solution on Ask Ubuntu and I found a question asked about the same problem but for a different version of ubuntu (12.10) and I am running 14.04.
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If you want to edit an unsalvageable NAA post, please don't use the edit button in the LQP review queue to do so
This is somewhat related to this useful question:
Should we edit the answer we flag as NAA?
The answer said, in part:
If you're a 2k user, knock yourself out - after all, it's just your own time ...
ZannaMod
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How many Questions can I edit in a bulk before they are reviewed?
I like to edit question and answers by new users, but I don't have edit privileges. So every time I edit a couple of posts I receive this message:
I just want to know
How many posts I can edit in a ...
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What is best practice for writing commands? With $ or without $? [duplicate]
I want to know what the best way to write and highlight a command is.
Many people (with a lot of reputation) write commands like this:
$ sudo apt-get update
If someone copies this command as it is, ...
ZannaMod
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How to format release versions?
When making other edits to a question that mentions a release/number (e.g, Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS), my natural instinct is to bold it as it is usually the first thing I look for in a question and I have ...
Thomas WardMod
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Messages to close voters in questions: are they OK?
It is occasional practice of some users to place message along the lines
CLOSE VOTERS: please don't close this as duplicate because it is not because A,B,C.
My question is this: Are we OK with ...
ZannaMod
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What is our site policy on code/command edits?
Does this site have any sort of canonical policy regarding command/code edits?
Or, more exactly, when proposing an edit to code or a command (or just directly editing it as per 2k privileges), where ...
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Should edits get some rep for upvotes?
I was wondering, why shouldn't edits get a small bit of rep for an upvote? (Like 1 rep for upvoted question 2 for upvoted answer) Because I answered pretty badly, but someone (fabby) edited it and it ...
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Editor Privilege?
Speaking from experience, waiting for a suggested edit to be approved (before 2000 rep.) can be tiring and annoying. So what I want to know is if you guys think the following is a good idea. For those ...
ZannaMod
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Bad admin choices regarding a compound question
There is a compound question asked; a question that solicits a CLI method, and a GUI method.
I keep seeing places refer to the "partner" repository as a place I can get software, how can I enable ...
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An appeal to low rep users!
Please don't just delete your answers because you got negative feedback, improve them.
This has happened to me a few times recently, I have left a comment on an answer asking the OP to improve the ...
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I need to change my bio
I am kind of new to stack exchange and I was made aware of my profile. Someone on my Dev team played a little prank on me and wrote my bio and it is really embarrassing... It's basically making it ...
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What justifies an edit?
How big of a change should be needed before an edit is justifiable? For example a small grammatical error bugs the crap out of me, but I am too hesitant to fix it, whereas sometimes a question is ...
ZannaMod
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Why limit edits?
When I get bored at school literally all I have is coming here and editing questions (hehe), but usually there aren't 3K+ rep users on the review queue when I'm on, and so I'm limited to 5 edits to ...
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Reviewing tool should be less flexible by enforcing the Skip option rigourously
When you are reviewing posts, you are faced with three options: Skip, I'm done (after some change), Nothing to review.
Ideally, when you make a change like edit, flag, comment, or vote, the "I'm done"...
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What should I do if someone makes a bad edit to my post?
I've been searching to see if this was already asked; sorry if it's a duplicate, couldn't find an answer.
I've been wondering what I should do if someone bad edits my post?
For example, I explain ...
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