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Someone else edited my question inappropriately (IMO).

What is the right way to revert their changes?

There is a Rollback link for all the other revisions in the history but not for the top one, just Source|Edit|Link.

What I ended up doing was clicking on Edit, then selecting the previous revision from the drop-down menu, then saving the previous version. Is that the right way?

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    The idea of the rollback link is that you can roll back to a particular revision. So in the revision history choose the second most recent one and click rollback on that one to undo the most recent edit. Commented May 30, 2024 at 13:05
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    If it's the one I think it is, part of the problem is answers don't belong in the question. That part definitely should be edited out. Commented May 30, 2024 at 13:41
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    If your question was edited by someone with a diamond after their name (a moderator), you'd better not revert it without asking them first why they performed that edit. Commented May 31, 2024 at 14:17
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    It looks like an excellent edit. And the editor does not earn any "edit points", whatever those are. Commented May 31, 2024 at 23:16
  • @sds You stop earning reputation from edits when you get either 1000 total reputation from edits, or you hit 2k reputation; whichever comes first. This is covered here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work Commented Jun 4, 2024 at 6:58
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    I disagree that this question is a duplicate; this question misunderstands what "rollback" means and asks how to revert, while the other merely asks what it means. Commented Nov 17 at 1:48

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Rather than thinking of rolling back an edit (i.e., from a given revision), the system thinks of rolling back to a previous version/revision.

For example, if you think that Revision 2 was a bad edit, then you should rollback to Revision 1 by going to that revision in the edit history and clicking Rollback on Revision 1.

Here's how it looks on your question here:

Screenshot of revision history with a previous revision circled, and an arrow to the "Rollback" link on that revision

Since Revision 2 is the current revision, you can’t “rollback” to it — only to previous ones.

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