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Editing someone else's question or answer (comments can't be edited by others) is a very aggressive move and not something that anyone other than a handful of v
by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Editing someone else's question or answer (comments can't be edited by others) is a very aggressive move and not something that anyone other than a handful of very experienced / high rep users are likely to do very often. And it is far from a perfect solution either.
Editing an answer substantially upsets the entire up/down vote system, as well as the comments. A better system would be something like question/answer versioning. In general it's a problem that has received far too little effort.
- geezerjay 8y ago> Editing someone else's question or answer (comments can't be edited by others) is a very aggressive move and not something that anyone other than a handful of very experienced / high rep users are likely to do very often. Do you really believe that adding a tag with a version number to a post is something that can be classified as a very aggressive move, particilarly if it's an old post?
- InclinedPlane 8y agoPlease be serious, you know that's not what is meant by editing old answers in the context of "stack overflow is more like wikipedia than anything else". The implication is wholesale change of the entire content of the answer (or question). Which fundamentally breaks how stack overflow works, and is why it's not something that happens very often.