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The best thing was a post by John Carmack. It had a "edited by <some SO poweruser>" next to it ...

by franzus 14y ago

sysop073 14y ago
You mean this one? http://superuser.com/a/419167 http://superuser.com/a/419167 It wasn't on SO, but in any case, all the edits did were fix spelling/capitalization; why would that be bad?
- franzus 14y ago
  Disclaimer: I stopped using SO a while ago because of the uber pedantic mods and the overall unfriendly atmosphere there. > why would that be bad? Because I don't want some bozo messing around with something I wrote. If he wants to add something he should write a comment but not change my original contribution. I see this as a personal attack.
  - solutionyogi 14y ago
    If someone re-writes an entire sentence, I can see how you may feel it as a personal attack. If someone is fixing spelling and grammar and other things like formatting for linking to keywords etc., I think it is very useful. I don't know why you would think that such edits are personal attack. This is the Internet, you need to relax a bit.
    - shurane 14y ago
      Yeah, franzus is certainly taking it a bit too personal. SO is interested in the preservation of knowledge for future visitors. I don't know why this isn't in your best interest, but it is certainly what SO focuses on and gets, to a good degree. SO is mostly information-based. They are not so interested in friendly civilities, greeting each other, asking "how do you do", and so on. Neither is SO a substitute for regular conversation, where topics meander, talk goes in all directions, and new ideas spark, among so many other qualities/possibilities. It is question, answer, and building up respect. So I don't see the problem with removing the personal component. If you really wanted to, you can just contact another SO-er for thanking them. Now that you've stopped using SO, what do you use instead, franzus? SO is a really impressive site, pedantic mods be damned. Same with Wikipedia. You'll be hard-pressed to find alternatives that try to maintain the same level of quality across as wide a berth of topics (anything, really) as SO.
  - gizzlon 14y ago
    Then you're right to stay off SO: "All contributions are licensed under Creative Commons and this site is collaboratively edited, like Wikipedia. If you see something that needs improvement, click edit and help us make it so! [..] If you are not comfortable with the idea of your contributions being collaboratively edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you" http://stackoverflow.com/faq#editing http://stackoverflow.com/faq#editing
  - Cyranix 14y ago
    Pull requests for edits, perhaps?
    - manojlds 14y ago
      It is actually like that. Any new comer cand edit and "submit a pull request" that people with more rep can accept.
      - cruise02 14y ago
        And the original poster can always roll back the edit too. There's a standing order to respect the original poster's edit if it comes down to an edit war, even if it sucks.
unwind 14y ago
This is (probably) the answer in question: http://superuser.com/a/419167 http://superuser.com/a/419167. It was edited (not by me, just to be clear) to fix some minor typos, not for content. Here is the diff: http://superuser.com/posts/419167/revisions http://superuser.com/posts/419167/revisions. I guess having "hz" edited into "Hz" might strike some people as being "anal", but I think it's a very decent improvement. Of course, I'm not trying to imply anything about Mr Carmack's knowledge about unit symbols, I just think he wrote his answer too quickly to care. I consider it a feature that someone else can step in and clean it up a bit.
- smackfu 14y ago
  The funny thing is that you can't just fix typos like hz to Hz because it's under the update character count, so people end up making other changes just to get around the rule. A bit silly, that.

The best thing was a post by John Carmack. It had a "edited by <some SO poweruser>" next to it ...

by franzus 14y ago

The best thing was a post by John Carmack. It had a "edited by <some SO poweruser>" next to it ...

You mean this one? http://superuser.com/a/419167 http://superuser.com/a/419167 It wasn't on SO, but in any case, all the edits did were fix spelling/capitalization; why would that be bad?

franzus 14y ago
Disclaimer: I stopped using SO a while ago because of the uber pedantic mods and the overall unfriendly atmosphere there. > why would that be bad? Because I don't want some bozo messing around with something I wrote. If he wants to add something he should write a comment but not change my original contribution. I see this as a personal attack.
- solutionyogi 14y ago
  If someone re-writes an entire sentence, I can see how you may feel it as a personal attack. If someone is fixing spelling and grammar and other things like formatting for linking to keywords etc., I think it is very useful. I don't know why you would think that such edits are personal attack. This is the Internet, you need to relax a bit.
  - shurane 14y ago
    Yeah, franzus is certainly taking it a bit too personal. SO is interested in the preservation of knowledge for future visitors. I don't know why this isn't in your best interest, but it is certainly what SO focuses on and gets, to a good degree. SO is mostly information-based. They are not so interested in friendly civilities, greeting each other, asking "how do you do", and so on. Neither is SO a substitute for regular conversation, where topics meander, talk goes in all directions, and new ideas spark, among so many other qualities/possibilities. It is question, answer, and building up respect. So I don't see the problem with removing the personal component. If you really wanted to, you can just contact another SO-er for thanking them. Now that you've stopped using SO, what do you use instead, franzus? SO is a really impressive site, pedantic mods be damned. Same with Wikipedia. You'll be hard-pressed to find alternatives that try to maintain the same level of quality across as wide a berth of topics (anything, really) as SO.
- gizzlon 14y ago
  Then you're right to stay off SO: "All contributions are licensed under Creative Commons and this site is collaboratively edited, like Wikipedia. If you see something that needs improvement, click edit and help us make it so! [..] If you are not comfortable with the idea of your contributions being collaboratively edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you" http://stackoverflow.com/faq#editing http://stackoverflow.com/faq#editing
- Cyranix 14y ago
  Pull requests for edits, perhaps?
  - manojlds 14y ago
    It is actually like that. Any new comer cand edit and "submit a pull request" that people with more rep can accept.
    - cruise02 14y ago
      And the original poster can always roll back the edit too. There's a standing order to respect the original poster's edit if it comes down to an edit war, even if it sucks.

unwind 14y ago

This is (probably) the answer in question: http://superuser.com/a/419167 http://superuser.com/a/419167. It was edited (not by me, just to be clear) to fix some minor typos, not for content. Here is the diff: http://superuser.com/posts/419167/revisions http://superuser.com/posts/419167/revisions. I guess having "hz" edited into "Hz" might strike some people as being "anal", but I think it's a very decent improvement. Of course, I'm not trying to imply anything about Mr Carmack's knowledge about unit symbols, I just think he wrote his answer too quickly to care. I consider it a feature that someone else can step in and clean it up a bit.

smackfu 14y ago
The funny thing is that you can't just fix typos like hz to Hz because it's under the update character count, so people end up making other changes just to get around the rule. A bit silly, that.