Every edit is reviewed by multiple people. If you have low karma, then your edit is reviewed before the edit gets applied to the current state of the database.
Even with high karma, your edit still gets reviewed and will be reverted if it’s a bad edit.
And any time an edit is reverted, that’s a knock against your account. There’s a requirement for all edits to improve the content you’re editing.
… keep in mind Stack Overflow doesn’t just allow editing your own posts, you can edit any content on the website, similar to wikipedia.
Can we change our answers? Change your answers to garbage, don’t delete them. Do it slowly.
In the article the dude was banned for 7 days for changing his answer.
So wait a few days, then do it slowly.
Every edit is reviewed by multiple people. If you have low karma, then your edit is reviewed before the edit gets applied to the current state of the database.
Even with high karma, your edit still gets reviewed and will be reverted if it’s a bad edit.
And any time an edit is reverted, that’s a knock against your account. There’s a requirement for all edits to improve the content you’re editing.
… keep in mind Stack Overflow doesn’t just allow editing your own posts, you can edit any content on the website, similar to wikipedia.
It’s a shame, only corporate are going to be benefiting from hard work & labour of so many talented people.