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This tag is used for questions about editing on Ask Ubuntu.

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What to do if several answers to a question are edited, making them all very similar?

While I agree with the existing points of view, IMO it is also useful to discourage such edits, since some visitors might not look through revision histories to select the "best" answer. If we could i …
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How can get past 5 edits

It is a feature of the system that you can't edit your own posts more than five times. You should try to consolidate multiple edits made to one post into one, and use comments for small communications …
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What is peer review?

Peer review is simply an anti-spam(?) measure to make sure edits to others' posts are valid. If yu look at review, there is a Suggested Edits area. It requires 2000 reputation. At 2000 reputation, you …
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Best way to update old answers when links have changed?

The Review system should have an option for searching for posts with deadlinks. I don't know if this will overtax the StackOverflow servers, though.
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HTML comments in posts

IS it acceptable to use HTML comments(<!--TEXT--!>) in posts as signals that can be seen by other editors in order to clarify info to future editors, but things that should not be shown on the post as …
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Line breaks in markdown

I have been seeing new users who copy/paste code or information into posts not add extra newlines(or even type without extra newlines) and make posts hard to read, wasting the time of a moderator or e …