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This tag is used for questions about editing on Ask Ubuntu.
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What Is Considered "Extra Noise?"
Lazy reader
To be honest, when it comes to reading questions on AU, I am definitely one of the lazy readers ByteCommander is referring to. I am here to answer questions, not to dig out relevant inform …
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What is our site policy on code/command edits?
Also practically always, this leads to further editing after posting. … That is, in short, what I call being restraint in editing code. …
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Unwanted edits to my question in ask Ubuntu
Unwanted edits to my question in ask Ubuntu
You have to ask yourself: why unwanted?
Reading the question, it is clear that neither of you should have done what you did in the edit war. The simple an …
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Why do people edit in (usually pointless) bold and italics to questions?
It is a profession of its own to create comfortably readable posts. The trick is to create a hierarchical structure in which information is ordered/grouped in subsections that make sense somehow. The …
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Is it ok for my reputation to be edit-based?
Just to add another way of saying it:
The longer you are on this site, the more you realize that good questions are the key to a better quality of the site. Good questions are clear about what to ans …
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What do we do with (very) long answers, filled with off-topic story-telling?
Editing would simply reduce the story by 90%, which could be considered to be a lack of respect. In most cases, I skip, leaving the decision to someone else. …
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Is it "not done" to (drastically) change an answer that is already accepted or upvoted?
Sometimes you give an answer and it is accepted and / or upvoted.
After some time, and growing insight, you feel you can make important improvements to some of those answers. However, the edit may i …
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Should edits get some rep for upvotes?
At the same time, it is the not-so-obviously successful posts that need good edits to make sure it is valued on the content
For acceptable edits, users below 2k get 2 points reputation, to encourage editing …
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