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> For instance I found a browser bug in the code submitted on a stack overflow answer [1] and I edited it and it got rejected because it wasn't in the spirit of
by ogrisel 10y ago
> For instance I found a browser bug in the code submitted on a stack overflow answer [1] and I edited it and it got rejected because it wasn't in the spirit of what the original author intended or something like that.
It occurred several times that moderators rejected valid or helpful edits to some of my answers for the same "spirit" reason. However I still got notifications and edited my answer accordingly so the effort of the original contributors was not wasted (but they did not get any credit / karma for it).