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Scott Morrison comments on "Finding the most recent edit" (11782)

Scott Morrison — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:16:06 -0800

Remember that edits on deleted answers are invisible to users below 10k, but still cause bumps. If you link to the relevant question here, a moderator or helpful 10k user can explain why the bump happened, if you have a pressing need to know.

WillieWong comments on "Finding the most recent edit" (11751)

WillieWong — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:02:35 -0800

Which is why in my answer above I carefully specified "... when the question is now active on the homepage". :-)

Michael Hardy comments on "Finding the most recent edit" (11738)

Michael Hardy — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:36:24 -0800

....and it seems that when you do that, you don't see the name of the person who most recently edited it, so your work-around doesn't work.

WillieWong comments on "Finding the most recent edit" (11680)

WillieWong — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:59:12 -0800

In the questions category, you can list by chronology of asking (clicking the newest tab), chronology of last edit/answer (clicking the active tab), number of votes (where the common false belief question does indeed appear to be the highest voted question on this website). Cheers.

Michael Hardy comments on "Finding the most recent edit" (11678)

Michael Hardy — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:13:08 -0800

OK, maybe that one's ranked by votes rather than by chronology.

Michael Hardy comments on "Finding the most recent edit" (11677)

Michael Hardy — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:11:55 -0800

The "front page" I take to mean http://mathoverflow.net .
But that's not what you get when you click on "questions". What you get is http://mathoverflow.net/questions .

WillieWong comments on "Finding the most recent edit" (11675)

WillieWong — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:03:00 -0800

Not that I know of, unfortunately. (Here's one feature of SE2.0 I like: there you can sort the answers to a given question by Active, Newest, and Votes, so the most recently changed answer will be bumped up top if you use the Active tab. On MO I don't think such a feature is available.)

(As a side remark, I don't see the Example of Common False Beliefs thread being on the front page. Are you thinking about the Proofs Requiring New Way of Thinking Thread?)

There's one, slightly convoluted, way of finding the relevant answer, when the question is now active on the home page. Let me take the "Proofs Requiring New Way of THinking" thread as an example.

On the front page now, it says that it has been bumped up by user John Sidle.

Click on that user's name in the question, this brings up the user-page.

On the user-page, click on "recent". It shows what he most recently commented on and edited. Now browse through the list and find his edit to his answer for the New Way of Thinking thread, click on that, and voila!

Michael Hardy comments on "Finding the most recent edit" (11674)

Michael Hardy — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:46:38 -0800

In recent minutes, "Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics" appeared as the very first item I saw when I clicked on "Questions". I take that to mean that the most recent edit was somewhere among all the answers and comments under that question. Finding that edit is finding a needle in a haystack. Can I click on something that takes me there?