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  • C Chris Maunder

    Can you send me a link to a question that's been badly edited?

    cheers Chris Maunder

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    Lost User
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    It's not that they have been badly edited, it is that the edits are totally unnecessary. Here is another one that was posted 13 days ago, and has been editied today, just to change "i" to "I". So now it is at the top of the queue, and thus pushing more active qestions further down. ERROR:"the option setting 'android.experimental.testoptions.emulatorsnapshots.maxsnapshotsfortestfailures=0' is experimental"[^]. [edit] And this How do insert an image in jasper reports. The output format is PDF.I am using iReports as designing tool.[^] [/edit]

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    • C Chris Maunder

      Can you send me a link to a question that's been badly edited?

      cheers Chris Maunder

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      Richard Deeming
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      First screen-shot is this one[^]. Second one is the question[^] RMC linked to in his edit. Here's one from 28th October, edited yesterday to add a "." at the end: What is the answer of this question? Explain please[^] 29th October, edited yesterday to remove the "Hello to everyone." at the start and change some white-space in the code block: Do not repeat the number in the database[^] 29th October, edited yesterday to change "get" to "gets" and add one comma: Scrape data and send updates in android[^]


      "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

      "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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      • C Chris Maunder

        Can you send me a link to a question that's been badly edited?

        cheers Chris Maunder

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        How do I change the color of messageboxes in my win32 application?[^] 25th October, edited 2 minutes ago:

        • Removed a hyphen from "any-one";
        • Changed "win32" to "Win32";
        • Changed "c++" to "C++";
        • Changed "googled" to "Googled";

        I appreciate that some questions have egregious formatting or language problems and can benefit from being tidied up. But dragging old questions back up the list just to make minor edits like this, which don't in any way aid the readability of the question, seems pointless.


        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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        • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

          How do I change the color of messageboxes in my win32 application?[^] 25th October, edited 2 minutes ago:

          • Removed a hyphen from "any-one";
          • Changed "win32" to "Win32";
          • Changed "c++" to "C++";
          • Changed "googled" to "Googled";

          I appreciate that some questions have egregious formatting or language problems and can benefit from being tidied up. But dragging old questions back up the list just to make minor edits like this, which don't in any way aid the readability of the question, seems pointless.


          "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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          Maybe a question shouldn't be bumped after editing unless done by the original author, or something like that.

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          • Greg UtasG Greg Utas

            Maybe a question shouldn't be bumped after editing unless done by the original author, or something like that.

            Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles
            The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

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            But all this editing is totally pointless. The questions are all clear enough to be investigated so none of the changes make any useful difference.

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            • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

              How do I change the color of messageboxes in my win32 application?[^] 25th October, edited 2 minutes ago:

              • Removed a hyphen from "any-one";
              • Changed "win32" to "Win32";
              • Changed "c++" to "C++";
              • Changed "googled" to "Googled";

              I appreciate that some questions have egregious formatting or language problems and can benefit from being tidied up. But dragging old questions back up the list just to make minor edits like this, which don't in any way aid the readability of the question, seems pointless.


              "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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              I might be wrong or I might have complained about the "revision" not being available because of faulty browsing (I have never updated FF on my current box (2018 easily). Ever!) but doesn't it occur to anyone else that the report should be centered on the "revisor" and not the post itself? Isn't your issue with the editor? Tell him to lay off then. Surely the moderators forum would be the space in which to conduct the voir dire and from there you could prosecute the offender most easily. So when is my trial date? :wtf:

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              • C Chris Maunder

                Can you send me a link to a question that's been badly edited?

                cheers Chris Maunder

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                Nelek
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                Maybe could be an idea to focus the CP-Editors to the publications and leave the Q&A to us users? I can imagine there are enough "wrong format" flags to be more or less continously busy.

                M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                • R RedDk

                  I might be wrong or I might have complained about the "revision" not being available because of faulty browsing (I have never updated FF on my current box (2018 easily). Ever!) but doesn't it occur to anyone else that the report should be centered on the "revisor" and not the post itself? Isn't your issue with the editor? Tell him to lay off then. Surely the moderators forum would be the space in which to conduct the voir dire and from there you could prosecute the offender most easily. So when is my trial date? :wtf:

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                  RedDk wrote:

                  Isn't your issue with the editor?

                  Yes, but since the person in question is a staff member, it needs a decision at CodeProject management level.

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                  • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                    How do I change the color of messageboxes in my win32 application?[^] 25th October, edited 2 minutes ago:

                    • Removed a hyphen from "any-one";
                    • Changed "win32" to "Win32";
                    • Changed "c++" to "C++";
                    • Changed "googled" to "Googled";

                    I appreciate that some questions have egregious formatting or language problems and can benefit from being tidied up. But dragging old questions back up the list just to make minor edits like this, which don't in any way aid the readability of the question, seems pointless.


                    "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                    Sean Ewington
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                    A lot of times (and in specific scenarios), I delete rather than edit, to avoid this bothersome scenario. As Quick Answers works now, minor edits cannot be applied like this, so you will no longer see minor edits like this.

                    Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject

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                    • L Lost User

                      RedDk wrote:

                      Isn't your issue with the editor?

                      Yes, but since the person in question is a staff member, it needs a decision at CodeProject management level.

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                      RedDk
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                      .. ah, yes! She is isn't she?. From far off though that satchel looks like a cigar so you can appreciate the confusion I was still experiencing even while posting this rejoinder. :doh:

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