Questions tagged [editing]
This tag is used for questions about editing on Ask Ubuntu.
8
votes
1answer
59 views
Should tags be edited out from a question if they appear irrelevant?
See Off Wi-Fi LED in Ubuntu for an example:
While it's ideally better to ask posters if, in this case, lubuntu and syslinux are indeed relevant to the question, suppose posters doesn't respond or, ...
1
vote
0answers
38 views
Made two edits within two minutes, but they weren't merged [duplicate]
I'm used to editing then noticing something small I missed and quickly editing again. Normally the second edit is merged with the first as long as it's within a grace period of 5 minutes, but I just ...
7
votes
2answers
78 views
Is there an easy way to include images from https://imgur.com?
Sometimes, posters provide links to https://imgur.com rather than to https://i.stack.imgur.com.
Then, if I want to include the image in the poster's question, I first have to open the https://imgur....
11
votes
0answers
79 views
Shortcut for adding quotes causes program to quit
While editing a long answer with a large block of text to quote, I held my mouse over the button for quoting, and noted that the shortcut to add quotes is Ctrl+Q.
The use of 'Q' makes sense, but it ...
3
votes
0answers
50 views
Editing race condition?
OP and I both edited this question at the exact same second. My revision is shown, but the revision history says OP's is the most recent.
I think this is a bug, since the most recent revision should ...
7
votes
1answer
127 views
Will I still get +2 for editing questions and answers after I reach 2000 reputation?
I have been active on Ubuntu for one year...
I am about to achieve 2000 reputation.
At the moment, with reputation 1658, all my edits are peer reviewed and once they are accepted, I am getting a ...
3
votes
2answers
115 views
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 ...
4
votes
1answer
134 views
Reputation points and badges not incremented
My reputation points and badges suddenly stopped increasing on Ask Ubuntu...
I have done some reviews today and I was also supposed to be awarded a gold badge for editing 500 posts. This started ...
3
votes
0answers
95 views
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?
13
votes
1answer
156 views
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), ...
11
votes
2answers
219 views
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 ...
8
votes
1answer
173 views
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 ...
-3
votes
1answer
35 views
Can not find Edit help
I looked in the help center but could find no listing for help in editing.
Can someone point me the way?
2
votes
1answer
75 views
What should I do about edit suggestions being rejected?
One of the members who has a higher reputation than me rejects my edits on the wrong basis. I know that on this site, we write Ubuntu and not ubuntu. Even when I write ubuntu, other members correct it....
54
votes
2answers
1k views
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'...
10
votes
2answers
66 views
Add icon to the composing editor to format keyboard shortcuts
Background:
Many questions require the user to describe used keyboard shortcuts.
These can be formatted through <kbd></kbd>.
Suggestion:
I would like to suggest to add an icon to the ...
5
votes
2answers
220 views
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 ...
3
votes
2answers
81 views
What does it mean when my question is “edited” and how can I investigate?
My last question was "edited", can somebody explain:
What this means exactly.
How do I see what "edits" were made.
How do I contact the "editor" should I disagree with the "editing"
8
votes
1answer
53 views
Where to use blockquotes, pre formatted text and bold
I have a issue on where to use block quotes and pre formatted text and bold.
Please explain in depth where these should be used.
43
votes
1answer
478 views
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 ...
12
votes
1answer
131 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
31 views
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 ...
8
votes
3answers
160 views
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 ...
11
votes
2answers
374 views
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
117 views
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 ...
-3
votes
1answer
142 views
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 ...
9
votes
2answers
428 views
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 ...
4
votes
2answers
135 views
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....
7
votes
1answer
88 views
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.
...
8
votes
2answers
138 views
Change in domain name
My domain name changed from bodhizazen.net to bodhizazen.com
All the .net links now apparently point to spam.
I got a message about this in the comments from your staff here
/usr/sbin/update-info-...
4
votes
1answer
56 views
Does “convert to edit” let moderators move comments?
When moderators convert an answer to and edit--which deletes the answer and places its content at the end of the question--do they have the ability to move the comments from that answer to the ...
23
votes
0answers
224 views
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 ...
11
votes
2answers
205 views
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 ...
4
votes
1answer
125 views
Can users be banned from suggesting edits?
A user can be banned from asking a question and from answering. A user can also be banned from reviewing. So is there any rule for editing posts?
Once they have at least 2k reputation a user can ...
9
votes
2answers
87 views
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, ...
3
votes
1answer
61 views
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 ...
12
votes
4answers
384 views
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 ...
12
votes
5answers
387 views
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 ...
-8
votes
1answer
94 views
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 ...
-6
votes
1answer
116 views
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 ...
-8
votes
2answers
168 views
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 ...
45
votes
1answer
686 views
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
64 views
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
61 views
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
60 views
Reputation with editing “to be closed” questions
As an avid editor for the main site, I have taken quite a liking to the 2 rep I get for passing my time, however when I see a question that is off topic, and yet messy, like this one, I still feel the ...
0
votes
1answer
62 views
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 ...
-5
votes
1answer
66 views
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"...
15
votes
3answers
205 views
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
47 views
Edit rejected as conflicted with a subsequent edit
As a beginner I usually answer questions very rarely as I think my knowledge not sufficient yet. So I read questions and answers as much as I can and edit questions to correct spelling and formatting ...
3
votes
1answer
60 views
Offering a human translation for cryptic google-translated questions
If there is a question where the text was clearly google translated with a cryptic result, is it OK to ask the author to provide the text in the original language so that I can edit his/her question ...
