Timeline for Is it allowed to mass edit answers for grammar mistakes?
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| Sep 18, 2023 at 20:50 | history | edited | Ulrich Diez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2023 at 18:50 | comment | added | cfr | As I said, I have sympathy with your view and prefer people to comment, but officially, that's not how it's meant to work (as I understand it). I suspect TeX SE is more tolerant of comments than SE policy encourages. I'm more than happy about that, but it is divergent from SE-imposed norms. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 4:39 | comment | added | cfr | I think a post can be made easier to read even if it is already intelligible. In some cases, removing/explaining abbreviations/jargon or improving the English can made the post intelligible for people who couldn't understand it otherwise (e.g. new to LaTeX or less familiar with English). So that person A can understand it doesn't mean it might not be good to edit it so person B, who speaks Chinese and is learning English, and C, who has no idea what the terms mean, can understand it, too. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 4:36 | comment | added | cfr | @NumberBasher In a case like that, I think editing is fine, but focus on new posts which are top of the page anyway and definitely don't mass edit answers. I only looked at one of your edits, so it may have been unrepresentative, but that one didn't have any significant problems at all. So either that was an outlier or you have a very different sense of what makes for substantive problems. Since you didn't make anything like 2-3 changes per sentence, I'm assuming you wouldn't say it did either. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 4:29 | comment | added | cfr | Although I have some sympathy with this view, it isn't how SE sites work. Moreover, many posts in greatest need of attention are by authors who are no longer around or appear to be struggling to communicate. I have one particular post where I added a notice asking people not to edit because well-intentioned 'corrections' kept substituting wrong information, but that's a slightly special case. I certainly prefer when people ask me to edit rather than doing it, but it's not really The SE Way. | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 0:55 | comment | added | Number Basher | The problem is that the post has 2~3 grammar mistakes per sentence and requires a significant effort to read. There's also too many edits to fit in a comment... Or at least it would be annoying to do so in the first place. | |
| Sep 16, 2023 at 20:32 | history | edited | Ulrich Diez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 16, 2023 at 20:26 | history | answered | Ulrich Diez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |