@JonathanReez I'm all in favour of housekeeping. That message I posted was not directed at you in any way, nor was it a passive aggressive way of saying stop it. ;)
@MarkMayo chasing the first on the SE network might be impossible :/ the small sites have it easy. We and RPG are the only above 20k 100% answered sites tho.
Just the change of one or two words, or just correcting capitaliazation.
And often just adding or taking away a tag.
If there are just one or two of those, you do not mind but if it gets to three months the front pages being flooded with them, you get really tired of them.
And I see no improvements, no end to it, just more and more different 'reasons' to do those edits so I fear more months of them.
well... there are 20k questions. Around 1% should be deleted (spam, completely off-topic, etc), 10% should be closed, and 30% could be improved in various ways (tag edits, spelling, better titles, removal of thank-yous, proper formatting, inline-links, etc, etc, etc)
Now, I'd like to understand what bothers people so much about the edits. The reason is that I don't feel like I am bothered at all. So I would genuinely like to get to the root of the problem because surely I am missing something.
I think tag edits are fundamental: better tagging makes for easier searching of questions.
Those are just the newest questions, I am one for seeing all real new activity, answers to older questions, (not just the late answer by new people that hit review)
And I am NOT the ONLY person, read through the starred comments of the last three months, see how many get 5 or more stars as well.
It would be nice to allow users to mark a change in an answer (or question) as minor (e.g. for a simple spelling or grammar correction). A change marked as minor wouldn't push the question on top of the list of questions on the home page or in the feeds. It wouldn't trigger any notification. This...
On Travel.SE there are frequent complaints about waves of edits removing interesting new content from the 'front page', which is used by many to track the site's activity. Would it be possible to implement a checkbox to hide an edit from the 'front page' on minor sites such as Travel.SE? Obvious...
@JonathanReez To answer this question, the problem with sorting by newest questions is that you don't see new answers. We often get new answers that are wrong, not actually answers, spam, etc, many that don't even end up in the review queue initially since the users have enough rep... I spend a bunch of time looking at those and flagging any that are problems.
If those new answers are buried under 100 edits from somebody who has decided to make every single question on the site conform to their own personal writing style, those answers will never be seen
@JonathanReez And, at the moment, 'trivial' is not one. Until it is "does not show any research effort" is covered by downvotes. Users seem very reluctant to use those, but as I understand it, them's the rules.
I've done that long ago, this time I did Tel Hazor - Tel Meggido - Beer Sheva - Avdat - Mitzpah Ramon - Eilat - Petra - Amman (ok, the last two are Jordan, i know)
On 18 December 2016, a series of shootings took place in the city of Al-Karak in southern Jordan. The attack started in the vicinity of Al-Karak where a group of unidentified militants ambushed emergency responders and then moved into the city, attacking police patrols and the local police station and finally seeking shelter in the historic Crusader-era Kerak Castle, a popular tourist attraction.
Severe fog at noon hampered police operations. After an attempt by the Jordanian gendarmerie to besiege the castle, the five attackers were killed following the arrival of the elite Jordanian 71st Special...
but yes, some were shot in the sordid affair, I see
I still wouldn't worry
but ... i can understand. While I have no fear of terror attacks, it's the everyday interactions that keep me away from the so called third world. So ... each to their own.
@chx oh, don't get me wrong, I do still see the risk as almost vanishingly small (my day job is in risk management) I need to be able to reassure my wife, and any region with a higher than median risk stands out for her :-)
Feature Request
In the Questions view of a site, add a tab/option to view questions that are either new or have received new answers, i.e. questions that have new content beyond edits.
Background
Over on Travel SE we have some users that are very actively editing old questions, even for minor...
@pnuts re your edit on the vwp question thats dupe: I find it destructive that you remove relevant tags just because they are included in another tag. if once I search that Q under the esta tag I won't find it because its only tagged vwp. if there is space for more tags, why not allow them to be redundant? ESTA and USA would be good tags here travel.stackexchange.com/q/88729/32134 (besides its going to dupe closure).
I should have changed [vwp] to [us-visa-waiver-program] (though I think that is still under discussion). The Q Title includes "ESTA" but Q is not actually about ESTA expiry (yes, I should have changed the Title but was stuck for something suitable). [visas] seemed unsuitable because the VWP is about not needing them.
[usa] might help you find that Q but would not help those seeking questions about USA that are not to do with visas/ESTA/VWP and the like (that are the majority by far here).
That is, members of that group are around 25% of all Qs.
5 out of 11 here, including the last three, which were major. I really value your contributions to the site but I often have the feeling you don't give a ... about the experience of other (frequent) users on here.
If there are five tags that fit then indeed a Q should be tagged with five. Problem being, what is "fit".
Tagging a question both 'usa' and 'los-angeles' (where solely about LA) is hierarchical and SE do not like that.
I, and I suspect many others of our viewers (not necessarily users), don't want to be swamped by Qs specific to LA, NYC, SEA, National Parks and very many other subcategories of USA where my interest is USA as a whole. That would be too close to tagging every Q with a single tag (say [travel]) in terms of differentiation.