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38 questions linked to/from Make first draft of a new answer part of the permanent revision history
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Does consecutively editing a post, inserting single lines, discourage other answers from being posted? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: Fastest Gun in the West Problem Make first draft of a new answer part of the permanent revision history I noticed something odd earlier today. I drafted a long answer to a ...
1551 votes
51 answers
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Fastest Gun in the West Problem
I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases. Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then by descending time of posting. This ...
1074 votes
1 answer
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What are "Community Wiki" posts?
Some questions and answers are marked Community Wiki and are owned by a community wiki user: (In fact, this very question is one of them) Why have Community Wiki posts? How do Community Wiki posts ...
85 votes
7 answers
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Is there any point forcing a post to Community Wiki after 6 owner edits?
Personally I think not. If the concern is spurious bumping then simply stop bumping the post after some arbitrary edit. This site might be part-Wiki, part-Q&A but I think its clear that people ...
94 votes
9 answers
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Should we be allowed to edit comments?
I am a horrendous speller, and my mild dyslexia does not help. Sometimes I typo in my comments, I look at it a few days later and see something that screams to be fixed. But to fix it I would have ...
50 votes
11 answers
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Is Stack Overflow a type of game?
I hope this question isn't perceived the wrong way. I am sincerely interested in hearing some of your thoughts about the title of this post. Sometimes, answering a question on Stack Overflow is an ...
6 votes
6 answers
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Sexism in conversation moderation, or, why wasn't I suspended?
Earlier today I was involved in a conversation on Stack Overflow which resulted in one user, Julia Anne Jacobs, being suspended, and another receiving a warning from a moderator. The timeline from my ...
86 votes
1 answer
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Reset question grace period once an answer has been posted
When answers are posted within a question's initial grace period, it is possible that further edits could completely change the question (see "chameleon questions"), and render those first few answers ...
38 votes
2 answers
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Dealing with quickly edited, copied answers?
Edit: This question isn't a duplicate of Acceptable solution for 'answer copying'?. The quote in the highest voted answer on that question is "Bottom line: if you want to get up-votes, WRITE A ...
35 votes
3 answers
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What to do when someone copies your answer verbatim? [duplicate]
Okay, so this guy copied my code verbatim, 6 minutes after I had posted my answer. And he got the accept. He added a sentence above the code sample, which I neglected to do. But the fact that he ...
16 votes
3 answers
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Add an indication that a post has been edited in the 5 minutes grace period
Although I think it's ok it doesn't count as an edit, sometimes I leave a comment or an answer to a post, just to come back later and find it has been edited, making me look like I'm crazy for ...
7 votes
3 answers
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The fast and the furious [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: Fastest Gun in the West Problem How can one answer questions in SO so fast? I've been a member in SO for quite some time but I'm using it extensively for a couple of weeks. ...
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4 answers
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What happened to Moderators respecting the editing grace period?
This answer (10k link) was converted to a comment by a moderator while I was editing it (during the grace period). Admittedly in its original form the answer was not fleshed out enough, but why so ...
-13 votes
1 answer
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Place answers into demilitarized zone instead of 5 minute grace period [duplicate]
I'm going to piggy back off Make first draft of a new answer part of the permanent revision history but suggest that instead of having first drafts included in revision history, just change to a 5 ...
24 votes
1 answer
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How did this answer without a single letter get past the Low-quality post filter?
I see an answer (sorry, 10K only if it is deleted) that is full of only question marks: How did that make it past the post filter? Is it a bug in that undisclosed algorithm?