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user319005
6:30 AM
Hello @Cascabel, I am aware. I tried to differentiate the two in my comments. It seems to be a similar pattern across websites.
 
user319005
Unfortunately all of the comments seem to be nonanswers.
 
user319005
My main concern is that competent individuals are dismissed with rhetoric such as "You seem to be new to StackOverflow, here's how things work around here..." and dismiss any concerns the asker may have as to their phrasing of the question or the wording used.
 
user319005
I'm using StackOverflow as a generalization, sorry if there is any confusion.
 
user319005
@Stephie In this comment you state "We very, very, very rarely get "edit battles" with multiple edits, rollbacks and so forth. Those are often fuelled by users that have difficulties accepting a few basic SE principles, namely that everyone can suggest or perform an edit and that some topics are simply not on topic here."
 
user319005
This concerns me
 
user319005
6:36 AM
Of course, it may not come up frequently, but it is the one question I could think to ask
 
user319005
In cases such as I am referring to noticing the question was edited to be easier to answer is a meta-observation usually not obvious to whoever is doing the edit. The editor doesn't know how to answer X, but they do know how to answer Y, which is semantically close to what was asked. So the question is changed so it does have an answer.

I don't want to waste everybody's time with non-cooking discussion, but it is the one case where I have seen Stack Exchange's (the general term?) community process break down horribly.
 
Cascabel
Cascabel
@R0b0t1 I'm sorry that you've seen things go poorly, but I think that trying to ask the candidates to address something that you haven't actually seen on cooking really may not be the best use of their time. If you do want to ask/discuss more, I'd really encourage you to try to make it a little more concretely relevant to the site and election at hand.
 
Stephie
Stephie
6:52 AM
@R0b0t1 let me point you to the little essay (posted as a Q/A) that rumtscho wrote about editing: cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3329/…
 
Cascabel
Cascabel
If I'm using SEDE correctly, there were 14 posts with rollbacks in all of 2017, and none so far in 2018.
If you're really interested in seeing if there's room for improvement, I guess you could look through them: data.stackexchange.com/cooking/query/810173/rollbacks. But I looked through a handful and didn't find anything that interesting, and I even found a couple where users rolled back edits that probably shouldn't have been made - so, actively avoiding milder versions of the thing you were worried about. Maybe you'll find a fun example to discuss in the ones I didn't peek at?
I did also see some where the post author rolled back good edits :/
and thanks for thinking of that @Stephie, I'd completely forgotten!
 

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