Timeline for Is it OK to edit an answer just to rescind one's own old vote?
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| Apr 15, 2018 at 14:00 | answer | added | Simpleton | timeline score: -2 | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 0:00 | comment | added | Mazura | Only if you're going to do that to everything you've ever voted on. So sure, go right ahead as long as it's consistent. Otherwise this defaults to the rules for making an edit. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:52 | comment | added | Edlothiad |
@DVK you might find I specifically left in the stuff about an old vote. ...rescind one's own old vote?. I got rid of the rather pointless fluff that preceded the meaningful question.
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:50 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @Edlothiad - you removed meaningful semantic info (specifically, the fact that I was asking about "far in the past" events that require a time machine or other mechanism normally). | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:48 | comment | added | Edlothiad | @DVK "Title vandalism"? I wasn't aware making a title meaningful was considered vandalism. This meta while about the main site, is in my opinion very applicable here and should be enforced here. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:48 | comment | added | Hans Olo | I think the point of the vote "locking" after some time is that if we go around second-guessing all our old questions/answers/votes etc, then where does it end? To posts made one week, one month or one year ago? At some point the line must be drawn otherwise we'll spend all eternity editing old questions to change our up/downvotes. Ergo, I vote no. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:46 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @Edlothiad - funny. The only reason I didn't roll back the title vandalism -aside from extreme laziness - was because the body edits contained 1 or 2 valid grammar fixes (and yes, the hyphens were basically style preference that shouldn't have been edited either). | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:08 | history | edited | Rand al'ThorMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
redid useful part of previous edits
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:05 | history | rollback | Rand al'ThorMod |
Rollback to Revision 1
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 13:26 | comment | added | Edlothiad | @Randal'Thor You're welcome to revert the body changes, although I don't see how either of them are worse, they both seem to have improved the post. Granted the hyphens weren't necessarily needed, but while I was making edits I thought I might as well. The title however seems significant enough of a change given the original title was really quite useless. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 13:14 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Edlothiad Are people just editing this for the funny meta effect now? Apart from possibly the change to the title, your edit is the sort of thing I'd normally roll back in a heartbeat. The body edits are either unnecessary style changes or actually making it sound worse. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 5:08 | history | edited | Edlothiad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Removed the rather pointless bit at the beginning which really didn't have much to do with the question.
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| Apr 3, 2018 at 23:33 | comment | added | Valorum | @Randal'Thor - Everything I do seems to lead to a meta post. I've learned to steer into the skid. | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 23:32 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Valorum Ah, so meta! See, though, this little exchange kind of shows why such edits aren't appropriate. Useless edits tend to get people suspicious. They can even lead to entire meta posts. | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 23:27 | comment | added | Valorum | @Randal'Thor - It was a demonstration of precisely the sort of "hidden markdown" edit I'm saying isn't appropriate if you're planning to change your vote. I've referenced the edit in my answer. | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 23:21 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Valorum What was the point of your edit to this question? It looks like a pointless whitespace edit (maybe chasing a Refiner badge), but am I missing something? | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 16:47 | answer | added | Skooba | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 16:32 | comment | added | Skooba | Related: scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10117/… | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 6:05 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/981050140676034561 | ||
| Apr 2, 2018 at 20:46 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 4 characters in body
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| Apr 2, 2018 at 20:37 | answer | added | straycat | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 17:00 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 16:39 | answer | added | JohnP | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 15:38 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | I don't know if there's a main meta about this, but I've seen the same issue come up on other site metas. | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 14:18 | history | asked | DVK-on-Ahch-To | CC BY-SA 3.0 |