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As you know, I am one of the reviewers who rejected (both of) your attempts to apply this edit. I think it is far from obvious that the specific change made here is correct or even safe. There are tw …

I want to focus first on one of your questions that I consider very important: Links: should they be shown like "I followed this link" or like "I followed https://foo". It is true that li …

This might seem good at first, but I think it would really lead to defensive editing. … edit suggestions should never cause a loss of rep is are: (a) The rep wouldn't be recouped by good edits made after the editing privilege was attained. …

In addition to what Zanna has said, I think there are two related cases that sometimes arise. (This post expresses my views, and I am not claiming that it restates any policy that is already establish …

Reasonable actions to take depending on the circumstances include editing, commenting, and posting on meta to get other people's views about the post and the situation, exactly as you have done here. …

In this case I would suggest doing nothing, because the post is readable as it is. It would look prettier if its two list items were in an actual ordered list, but the 1), 2) formatting is readable he …

If the edit is appropriate and useful and nothing else needed editing, approve it. This can only be answered in a very general way, because there's no specific edit suggestion* to look at. … For a post like this meta post where there where the other things that benefited from editing were not big problems, I would have clicked Improve Edit and made the additional changes. …

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 questio …

What to do with comments... I don't know if there's a better approach available than just manually removing all the comments that link to the old domain (and have thus become spam) and replacing them …

(When a post is genuinely unclear but can be improved through editing, a rewording is better. But when people are just misunderstanding it, a bit of bold can help sometimes.) …

I think terdon's answer addresses the original question perfectly, but I'd like to address the added material. What is code? You object to formatting filenames like /home/ek/Desktop as code. How about …

But even then, editing in some translation usually helps clarify that and move things along. …

Yes, paragraph breaks should be included. And they should appear first (or right before line breaks, wherever line breaks appears). That way, anyone who considers adding a line break and checks the h …

Other people can improve it as necessary. As Marco Ceppi says, you can remove it if it stops being useful... but usually, it can be edited (by someone) to keep it helpful. For an answer that had to …

Speaking to the general issue: When this happens, it's at least a little bit bad and often merits commenting, editing, or discussion. kynan points out some disadvantages, but here is what I consider to …