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Discussion on: Has Stack Overflow Become An Antipattern?

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

Community editing is an interesting feature, actually. It has tremendous power for good. I've been able to shield many non-English speakers by correcting their spelling, grammar, and formatting before they could be assassinated.

The thing is, unless you have the appropriate privileges, your edits are supposed to be put in a review queue for the community moderators. Besides that, you can roll back the changes yourself if they contradict your intention.

So, the problem only comes when the people who either have free-for-all edit powers, or who go through the queue, start abusing the power. And that goes back to my point about selecting moderators carefully.