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Jon Bannon comments on "Suggestions for compulsive editors" (13790)

Jon Bannon — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:06:51 -0700

Thanks guys!

Jon

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Suggestions for compulsive editors" (13788)

Anton Geraschenko — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:15:57 -0700

Sorry, we can't implement it; we don't have access to the software.

If drafting your posts in wordpress is almost acceptable, then drafting them on faketestsite.stackexchange.com should be a fine workaround.

Harry Gindi comments on "Suggestions for compulsive editors" (13786)

Harry Gindi — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:14:45 -0700

Do what you want. Just know that if you edit a post too many times, the system will eventually make your question community wiki.

Jon Bannon comments on "Suggestions for compulsive editors" (13785)

Jon Bannon — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:05:13 -0700

I'm sure the first I'll receive is: Don't compulsively edit.

I'll make one, also: Perhaps draft your answers/questions on wordpress, and then import them when you like what you see. (Wordpress has that annoying $latex _______$ format, though.)

Anyhow, I'm someone who's never really happy with what he has written (usually with good reason) and therefore always returns to edit it. It is somewhat embarrassing that doing this always bounces whatever question (or answer) I have edited to the top of the page. Does anyone else have this problem? How do you deal with it?

Edit: I just checked out the question 'Drafts' asked here on meta a little while ago. Let me just say that this would be a complete solution to the problem I'm bringing up here!!! Please implement it!