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Duke
Duke on 12 Dec 2013
Edited: Matt J on 12 Dec 2013
Now that I have your attention, since people seem to like to edit away their questions, why don't you make it that someone with a certain number of reputation needed to accept someone's edit before it's "finalized". That way all the people that want to hide their questions can't. It puts more burden on the people that have to approve it but once you hit a certain level, let’s say 25 or 50 rep, you can edit you're own questions since it looks like it's the people with 0 that do it. You could even do 5 or 10 to help with the problem.

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Matt J
Matt J on 12 Dec 2013
That would create work for the people with the reputation points, which I doubt they want. And it's a minority problem...
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Matt J
Matt J on 12 Dec 2013
I suppose, depending on the reward. However, restricting editing would also make it painfully difficult for the well-behaved posters to do simple and legitimate editing. Imagine writing a Word document, but requiring a moderator's intervention evertime you want to edit something.
Duke
Duke on 12 Dec 2013
I go through that every day. All of our documents are sourced controlled and if you need to write up reports on the document before you can change it. So while it's not exactly the same, it's similar and painful. But that way you don't lose any information, but I guess it could always be recovered. But then it's going to be painful for someone else. Like a doubled edged sword...

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 12 Dec 2013
Easier would be if a certain reputation would be needed to edit your questions at all. The people who tend to do it have seldom reached (for example) 10 reputation.
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Matt J
Matt J on 12 Dec 2013
Edited: Matt J on 12 Dec 2013
If you do that, people with low reputation points who want to make simple edits will be incentivized to post duplicates with the edits they want.
Also, even 10 points are hard to reach for people who are primarily on this board to seek answers, rather than give them.
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 12 Dec 2013
Posting questions and answers does not earn points, unless someone else votes for the question or answer, or accepts your answer. From the About MATLAB Answers:
When a contributor… You earn…
Accepts your answer 4 points
Votes up your answer 2 points
Votes up your question 1 point

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