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Editing refers to how one should propose/make edits on others posts. Use this tag for questions about how to make edits, or the editing system.

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Updating an out of date answer versus keeping author intent

Since there are several kinds of answers, it might be hard to not modify an author's intent when editing (in short, there's no one rule to edit them all). … Editing while under 2000 reputation gives +2 if the edit is accepted. And a good edit might give a lot of upvotes to what would be a poor post. …
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