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The site claims I made edits to post while I was offline

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The site claims I edited this post 6 hours ago:

https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/276256

6 hours ago I was very much asleep since that's around 4am here. I don't remember editing this post at all, but maybe I did long time ago and it didn't get approved until now?

At any rate it's rather creepy that the site claims I was active when I wasn't. Makes me think my account has been hacked. It should show the date and time when the edit was proposed.

Additionally, the post edit history is completely useless since it doesn't show what was changed.

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luap42‭ wrote over 3 years ago

It was this suggested edit that got applied: https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/suggested-edit/11. Likely you changed the tags or title, hence it isn’t shown. However, this is just a theory I can’t verify (right now).

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Thanks for posting this. I saw the activity too, then went looking for what change, but couldn't find it.

Lundin‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Part of the problem is related to this bug: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277308

pnuts‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago

Is "The site claims " correct, strictly speaking? There is a timestamp that I agree at least strongly implies that, but if when a proposal came into effect is useful information, it could be reasonable for a single stamp to favour 'implemented' over 'suggested'. Maybe there should be two stamps, or at least clarification of the significance. (The latter may exist without my having noticed it.)

Moshi‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@pnuts Actually, the time when someone suggests an edit also shows up in user activity as "Suggested Edit" and also says whether the edit was "helpful" (accepted) or "declined". The existence of the latter information makes the "Edit" activity for when the edit was accepted kind of pointless imo

pnuts‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@Moshi Thank you (again!). Now with improved understanding, maybe in such cases edit from rather than edit by would be an adequate fix? I am fairly certain elsewhere this would be [status-bydesign]. BTW most of my suggested edits are neither "helpful" nor "declined" - there is also "pending".