Questions tagged [answer-invalidation]
Answer-invalidation involves editing a question in such a way that something addressed in an answer is lost. This is disallowed on Code Review as it disrupts the review process as specified in the Help Center.
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Allow moderators to lock questions without locking answers
In a situation such as this one: Capture multiple errors before raising an exception It would help to give moderators the power to lock only question edits/deletion, without locking new or edited ...
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What do we do with out-of-sync questions?
This question is now in somewhat of a bad state. The OP did significant rewrites of their question, and then received an answer. Not realizing the sequence of events, I rolled the question back to ...
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Can an OP add missing keyword(s) to code?
In Recursive conversion from ExpandoObject to Dictionary<string, object> the OP omitted the keyword private, and after ...
Sᴀᴍ OnᴇᴌᴀMod
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Request to re-open "Find out relation between Devices…" question
I had sought out review for a question about some proprietary code that I am working on. The code in question retrieves information from a list of one-to-many mappings and seeks to build a ...
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Preventing the ability to re-open off-topic questions by explaining how it's broken in an answer
Earlier this year I posted an answer to a question, saying that it's broken in a way that OP don't think, explaining it a bit, and then wrote a comment saying it's off-topic, and voted to close. ...
PeilonrayzMod
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1 answer
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Old messy questions
Considering the somewhat-still-new guidelines we have for editing own question to include revised code, how should we handle old questions which violates this guideline and are, more or less, a mess? ...
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About answer-invalidating edits
As agreed by the community, editing a question to include changes suggested in answers is a bad edit, and these edits are regularly rolled back, for a good reason: we want the answers to refer to the ...
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Is it okay to edit part(s) of code not yet reviewed?
In this question of mine, the one answerer so far has only reviewed a part of my code. However, I've made changes on other parts of my code, but I don't want to somehow invalidate that answer. Would ...
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