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    Continuous edits would still benefit from the 5-minute grace period that starts once they perform their first edit. What I'm trying to discourage is people posting a simple answer like @Yannis did below, then come back after they've done research on it. I'm not sure whether the motivation is similar to the "first post!" mentality, or if they're after the enlightened badge, or just after rep based on time and hope people won't notice that they changed their answer based on other answers/research/etc. within the grace period. Commented Jun 28, 2012 at 15:12
  • @AaronBertrand For the record, the full version of my answer was very close to Mad Scientist's, since he got to the actual answer first, no point in having a dupe answer. Commented Jun 28, 2012 at 15:16
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    No one's asking for deletes/rollbacks. This is about accountability so people can't copy other's code and say "I didn't copy, I posted first, see!" Unlike most FGITW this does not discourage answering quickly, it just holds you accountable for posting "Wait lemme just reserve this timestamp" stuff Commented Jun 28, 2012 at 15:18
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    Ditto what @Ben said - I'm not asking about rollbacks/deletes. I'm just asking for the initial answer to be a permanent record. Commented Jun 28, 2012 at 15:19
  • @BenBrocka Ah, understood. Thanks for explaining. Commented Jun 28, 2012 at 15:42