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Messages to close voters in questions: are they OK?

I often leave comments similar to this to inform close voters that I'm working on a solution for instance. Since we are a community and are trying to work together for the common good, this makes perf …
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An appeal to low rep users!

Improving poor answers is what typically makes high rep users out of low rep users. I look closely at any and all critical comments and determine a course of action based on what's said. Often this le …
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What should I do if someone makes a bad edit to my post?

An alternative which may also avoid a rollback war is to re-edit adding missing detail and removing erroneous information. (This assumes that the edit made was at least partially correct.) Of course i …
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Should people with more than 2000 rep write an edit summary?

I almost always put in an edit summary. I find it helps me to remember if I covered all the bases. Nothing about tags? Capitalization, grammer, clarity? It forces me to review what I've done and somet …
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