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Yaroslav Bulatov comments on "Editing an answer duplicates it instead" (8907)

Yaroslav Bulatov — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:23:59 -0700

I wonder if this person had the same problem today:
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/38191/convergence-of-a-markov-matrix
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/38205/markov-chain-convergence-problem

WillieWong comments on "Editing an answer duplicates it instead" (8879)

WillieWong — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:30:23 -0700

@djordan: since most of us are not having the same problem, if will probably help to mention what operating system and what web browser you are using to narrow down the possibilities.

José Figueroa comments on "Editing an answer duplicates it instead" (8876)

José Figueroa — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:40:18 -0700

I was wondering why it was that you have a deleted answer and a seocnd very similar answer to Theo's question about Tannaka-Krein. I was going to suggest that you edited instead of deleting and answering again... but clearly this is what you tried to do. I don't know enough about the inner workings of MO to understand what's going on.

djordan comments on "Editing an answer duplicates it instead" (8875)

djordan — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:32:56 -0700

Hi, occasionally in recent posts, I edited a post I had made to fix some small typo or add a sentence of explanation. When I entered the change, it made a duplicate of the answer, instead of amending the original. This seems to have started happening only within the last week (though I don't post all that often).

thanks,
-david

PS - I browsed to see if this had been reported elsewhere. Sorry if it has, and this is itself a duplicate =].