Timeline for Should <2k rep users avoid making small-character edits?
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| Dec 16, 2017 at 7:56 | comment | added | MadHatter | Oddly, I know about the community bump - and it only affects two posts an hour, which I can live with. If you think edit farming doesn't happen, I recommend doing the edit review queue assiduously for a few months. | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 7:54 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | There’s an automatic system that bumps questions to the home page if they haven’t been answered. Edits are not the primary resurrector of obselete questions. Edit farming sounds like a huge amount of work for hardly any reward. After you’ve made your eyes bleed by doing 1000 approved edits, you’ve managed to make it so edits no longer get you rep. And you have a few other privileges. Hooray. So it seems like something no one in their right mind would do. | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 7:10 | comment | added | MadHatter | Edit farming is the practice of low-rep users systematically making minor fixups in a large number of posts in order to reap the edit bonuses. My feeling (and it's just my feeling - this is meta, after all) is that old questions with no answers are probably bad questions (or they'd have answers by now) whose askers have long since gone (any sysadmin problem you haven't solved after five years is irrelevant). I have no desire whatsoever to see them re-appear on the front page, least of all because they've just had errors corrected that should never have been there in the first place. | |
| Dec 15, 2017 at 22:08 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | What is "edit farming"? And what is different about the old posts that means they couldn't benefit from more clarity? I suppose if a question has a highly voted accepted answer then maybe it makes a lot less sense to edit anything, but we keep getting five+ year old questions about obsolete technology bumped to the home page with the implication that someone should try to actually answer the question after all this time and IMHO if the question could be helped by edits then those edits are valuable. | |
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| Dec 7, 2017 at 8:28 | history | deleted | MadHatter | via Vote | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 8:27 | history | answered | MadHatter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |