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Here's an example of where I start to read a question, then get to the end and the person adds a bunch of edits that just end up confusing me instead of fixing the original question: Handle Doc/Docx …

The SO blog mentions the new review interface for people who are keen to improve questions. It's pretty awesome, it's automating things I've been doing by hand, so kudos there. Review early, review …

Here's an idea - instead of penalizing people for improving their answers too many times, why not allow them to improve their answer without it bumping the question, and therefore without counting …

We don't use the animal nicknames of a release here, we use the version number and the animal name is a development nickname until it's released. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames Should …

Keep on editing with as much information as you can. (You can start by linking your question in your post!) …

I've been editing the titles to make more sense, for example "How do I do foo on Ubuntu" to "How do I do foo?" since we already know you'll be on Ubuntu (unless you specify otherwise). …

Hi everyone, I'd like to flesh out how we run ubuntu-one a little bit better so we don't collide. First, some background. The Ubuntu One team at Canonical uses Ask Ubuntu as a place where they send u …

Keep an eye out for new Tumbleweeds, see if they need editing help. … If the editing is so invasive they will either let you know or you can always say something like "I tried to clear this up, is this what you mean?" as a comment. …

I usually won't go out of my way to edit out "Hi"'s and stuff, but if I'm editing the question anyway I'll go ahead and trim it out. …

I usually try to improve an answer first, either by adding links to references or other questions on the site or generally improving it. However if it ends up that I'm making so many changes that I'm …

What I do is I tend to use the summary as a teaching tool if I am editing a new user's post. …

As a result I've been doing some editing, but a bunch of it things like capitalization, spelling, formatting, etc. which I think are minor things. However this bumps the question. …

In the beginning there weren't that many high rep users who could edit questions. As that number grows I thought I would add some tips/tricks that I use for those of you striving to earn a badge impro …

I look for Revisions in my Activity/Revisions page under my profile, oddly enough it's a different number from the data.se query Oli just posted.

Maybe you collided with someone editing your question? It should just let you edit your question. how about just clicking "edit" on the question instead of picking it from the revisions screen? …