Timeline for Dealing with possible incorrectness
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://mathoverflow.net/ with https://mathoverflow.net/
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| Jan 3, 2014 at 22:46 | comment | added | user9072 | "Think about how you would feel if someone who misread the question or misunderstood the relevant mathematics changed your correct answer." Not different from the way I would feel if they left a comment (that is I see no problem as long as they proceed in a reasonable way) as long as the edit is done in such a way that it is visible (without entering the edit history), as in Scott Morrison's suggestion that this is an addition/edit/commentary to the post and not due to me; then it would IMO also not really change the meaning of my OP. Comment vs edit (marked as such) IMO is technicallity. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 22:26 | comment | added | user9072 | I think the negativity against stats.SE adds nothing useful here and seems somewhat rude (I have nothing to do with that site, this is a general point). | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 20:31 | comment | added | Lucia | But surely there are guidelines on what are good edits. For example the help page mentions edits that clarify the meaning without changing that meaning. When we evaluate suggested edits we check for radical changes or vandalism. I think one should promote good practices in editing at all times, rather than just hope that the community will fix problems if people go too far. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 20:07 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | I kind of disagree with this. There shouldn't be half-measures with respect to community editing. You should trust the community (which includes you) to correct any erroneous edits from other community members. Ideally, this always happens without a hitch but site moderators will intervene in case of edit wars or other system failures. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 18:05 | comment | added | Benjamin Dickman | Thanks for your response, too. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 16:46 | comment | added | Lucia | I agree entirely with this answer. Commenting on a (possibly) incorrect answer, and supplying one's own answer are adequate ways of drawing attention to errors. Changing someone else's answer to say it is incorrect is a step too far in my opinion. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 15:51 | history | answered | Douglas Zare | CC BY-SA 3.0 |