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We are not here to clean up behind authors. More importantly, we shouldn't ever make substantive changes to the posts of others. Authors will be judged, positively or negatively, on what they wri...
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#2: Post edited
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Olin Lathrop
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2021-10-02T15:35:52Z (about 3 years ago)
We are not here to clean behind authors. More importantly, we shouldn't ever make substantive changes to the posts of others.- Authors will be judged, positively or negatively, on what they write and how they write it. You can make <i>suggestions</i> to authors about improving posts, but the authors are not obligated to follow them.
In the end, all you really get to do is judge the post as it is. If you think it is badly written, downvote it. If you do that, though, please leave a comment explaining what you didn't like. Silent downvotes do the site a disservice, and leave the post author without any guidance as to what to fix or what you objected to. It also allows the author to ping you if they think they've addressed the issue. That gives you an opportunity to retract the downvote if you think the issue was adequately addressed.
- We are not here to clean up behind authors. More importantly, we shouldn't ever make substantive changes to the posts of others.
- Authors will be judged, positively or negatively, on what they write and how they write it. You can make <i>suggestions</i> to authors about improving posts, but the authors are not obligated to follow them.
- In the end, all you really get to do is judge a post as it is. If you think it is badly written, downvote it. If you do that, though, please leave a comment explaining what you didn't like. Silent downvotes do the site a disservice, and leave the post author without any guidance as to what to fix or what you objected to. It also allows the author to ping you if they think they've addressed the issue. That gives you an opportunity to retract the downvote if you think the issue was adequately addressed.
- We also don't want authors to rely on the system to clean up their messes. As we've seen Elsewhere, when you fix a mess for someone and then proceed as normal, they'll be back doing the same thing again, no matter how many comments you leave explaining what they shouldn't do. Correcting anything beyond obvious spelling errors and minor grammar has been proven not to work in the long run.
#1: Initial revision
by
Olin Lathrop
·
2021-10-02T15:27:50Z (about 3 years ago)
We are not here to clean behind authors. More importantly, we shouldn't ever make substantive changes to the posts of others. Authors will be judged, positively or negatively, on what they write and how they write it. You can make <i>suggestions</i> to authors about improving posts, but the authors are not obligated to follow them. In the end, all you really get to do is judge the post as it is. If you think it is badly written, downvote it. If you do that, though, please leave a comment explaining what you didn't like. Silent downvotes do the site a disservice, and leave the post author without any guidance as to what to fix or what you objected to. It also allows the author to ping you if they think they've addressed the issue. That gives you an opportunity to retract the downvote if you think the issue was adequately addressed.