Comment by cerved

4 years ago

I always try and improve existing answers with edits. Often just adding important context when the answer is just a line of bash and adding links to source documentation.

There's very little gamification incentive to do so and often the edit queue is full. Still, there are lots of times where important caveats and information is pointed out in the comments and never added to the answer

The other day I asked a question about the c/c++ plugin of vscode, somebody swooped in to edit it to just be c++ because “c/c++ is not a programming language”. The question wasn’t answered. I wonder what’s the incentive for people to do something like that.