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Bug? 3 year old question shown as edited by user that's not edited it
On the top of the main Answers page, a 3 years old question showed up for me as edited 4 minutes ago. It's the second one from the top here:
The user that's listed as having edited it is a 10 karma user, holdingjupiter, which should not be able to edit other people's posts or comments. The post is also not marked as wiki.
Looking at the question, holdingjupiter is not listed anywhere:
The user's activity page also does not show that they have edited anything in the question. This means that one of three things has happened:
1: The user edited some metadata (perhaps the topic), which made the post pop to the top of the queue. 2: The user didn't edit anything, and a bug in the system caused the list to believe that they edited it. 3: I missed something completely obvious
if (1) is the case, there's some questions: - should users be able to edit metadata for posts at just 10 karma? If this is what happened (and the user added executeineditmode as a topic), the user was doing the site a favour, but there's karma limits for a reason. - Should editing topics cause a post to be moved to the top of the queue? I doubt it. It's not very interesting information.
If it's not a metadata edit, what's going on?
Related, if a mod adds a comment to a post and targets it to just moderators and OP (so it doesn't show up for anyone else), the post will move to the top. It's possible that a moderator did something like that but just targeted the comment to OP so nobody else would see it.
Should editing topics cause a post to be moved to the top of the queue?
I think editing bumps them, or used to, but I'm not sure how the new site works since I'm not on it much anymore.
If it does bump after edits tho, in my opinion, no, editing of any sort shouldn't bump a thread. $$anonymous$$aybe sending an alert to other mods when an edit is done on a post that isn't owned by the editor wouldn't be a bad idea, in case someone edits something in a 'bad' way (such as editing someone elses post and deleting all of it's contents for no reason other than being an idiot) that way other mods could check the edit to see what was done and revert it (if that's possible) and report/suspend/whatever the saboteur.
If someone posts to an old question and that post occurs in moderation, if I reply but reject that post, my own nickname appears in the q-list as commented but my own post wont appear as it was removed by rejecting its parent. If the postee replies, the same can happen. Sometimes, the circumstances to which I am not fully familiar, the site simply inserts the incorrect user name.
I just saw another false bump: someone in the $$anonymous$$od queue "Answered" a 3-year-old question. I Rejected with a comment, but the question was bumped in $$anonymous$$ost Recent (with my name.)
But that sort of makes sense -- waiting for a Publish before logging transactions would be a pain. But a RejectWithComment option would fix that.
