Timeline for Why does the community allow or even encourage seemingly meaningless edits to questions and answers?
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| Feb 12, 2014 at 3:55 | vote | accept | pho | ||
| Sep 26, 2013 at 13:59 | answer | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kittenMod | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 8:09 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 8:01 | comment | added | Manishearth Mod | @DImension10AbhimanyuPS Yes, it does. Calling out a specific user is not the same as calling out a type of behavior. | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 8:01 | comment | added | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | @Manishearth: It ' s about the same sort of editing behaviour, so it doesn't make a difference . | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 7:05 | comment | added | Manishearth Mod | @DImension10AbhimanyuPS Again. The question does sprout from a specific case. However, usually we deal with general cases on meta when possible. And that's the case here. | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 5:16 | comment | added | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | Also "one particular user". | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 1:59 | comment | added | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | @Manishearth: Well, he had also earlier told me that I am editing for gaining rep, etc., etc. So it's pretty obvious. | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 16:24 | comment | added | Manishearth Mod | @DImension10AbhimanyuPS Did you look at the "While the question may have sprouted from your edits" in my comment? I know where the post came from. I disagree that it applies only to you. | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 16:23 | comment | added | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | @Manishearth: Have you seen the senteOnce "I've been signing in for a few days to see the front page filled with inactive questions asked fairly long ago resurrected because of an edit by one particular user, "? | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 15:45 | comment | added | tpg2114 | And let's not forget, we don't call out users in meta posts because that makes it too localized to be of any use down the road. | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 15:18 | comment | added | Manishearth Mod | @DImension10AbhimanyuPS Please stop. While the question may have sprouted from your edits, it's not necessarily only about them. Please do not try to impose your specific interpretation of a post onto it by editing, this opens the way to straw man arguments. | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 14:56 | comment | added | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | @tpg2114: Huh? Flagged what? | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 14:38 | comment | added | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | @Nathaniel: They are clearly NOT vandalism. It is very obvious that that is indeed the purpose of the post. | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 14:26 | comment | added | tpg2114 | @Nathaniel I flagged some earlier ones, hopefully you flagged too. | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 14:08 | comment | added | N. Virgo | I just rolled back some edits by Dimension10 that were clearly vandalism. This is really annoying dude, please stop it. | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 14:08 | history | rollback | N. Virgo |
Rollback to Revision 2
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| Sep 25, 2013 at 12:20 | history | edited | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
attempt 2 at more accurate title
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| Sep 25, 2013 at 12:17 | history | rollback | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir |
Rollback to Revision 2
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| Sep 25, 2013 at 12:17 | history | edited | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
What the OP really is asking; More specific title.
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| Sep 25, 2013 at 2:02 | history | edited | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Just as an oxymoron.
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| Sep 24, 2013 at 23:13 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | Relevant SO blog posts: In Defence of Editing, The Great Edit Wars. | |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 21:16 | comment | added | pho | @tpg2114: Revs 8 through 12 for physics.stackexchange.com/posts/68546/revisions Rev 3 for physics.stackexchange.com/posts/78264/revisions Rev 3 for physics.stackexchange.com/posts/74020/revisions I've been signing in for a few days to see the front page filled with inactive questions asked fairly long ago resurrected because of an edit by one particular user, hence my question on meta. | |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 17:34 | comment | added | Qmechanic Mod | The rule of thumb advice for potential editors is to limit mass edits of old posts, i.e, so that only a handful of their old post edits appear on the front page at the same time. [An old post is by definition here a post not already appearing on the front page. There are no limit to edits of new (=front page) posts.] | |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 17:32 | comment | added | Qmechanic Mod | Related: meta.physics.stackexchange.com/q/4790/2451 | |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 17:15 | answer | added | David ZMod | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 17:04 | comment | added | tpg2114 | Can you cite examples? | |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 16:58 | history | asked | pho | CC BY-SA 3.0 |