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Where is the audience in this equation? Maybe I misinterpreted part of the post, but it seems edits aren't publicly viewable. When Jeff says "suggested edits f
by AgentConundrum 16y ago
Where is the audience in this equation?
Maybe I misinterpreted part of the post, but it seems edits aren't publicly viewable. When Jeff says "suggested edits for a post are always visible on the post itself", it seems like he means that there is a visible counter showing the post has an edit in the queue, not that the edit is live.
If the audience for the edit is only the handful of folks that will review it, then the entertainment value of the vandalism drops way down.
Presumably your counter-argument will be Wikipedia, which does get vandalized on a regular basis. My response to that would be that Wikipedia articles are higher value targets than a post on a Q&A site. Also, anonymous Wikipedia edits are world-viewable on submit, whereas in the StackOverflow implementation they are subject to review before publication. Vandalism edits will be killed as quickly as enough people view them in the queue.
- mhp 16y agoEdits aren't publicly viewable until someone reviews them and they are accepted.
- AgentConundrum 16y agoThanks for the confirmation. Intuitively, that's the only way it made sense to me, but Jeff's comment seemed a bit ambiguous to me. If you want to say that the queue is hidden from normal view, but qualified reviewers will be able to identify when a post has edits in the queue, I don't think a good first sentence of the explanation should be "Suggested edits for a post are always visible on the post itself." It's misleading.