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Changed question code - what to do?
It somewhat pains me to do this, but as it stands, the question needs to be rolled back. So that's also what I did.
As MartinR observed in the comments to your inquiry here, answers to off-topic ...
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Rollback reason
Lock the question as soon as it is answered. Sound a bit too drastic.
Locking is a moderator tool with good reason. For one the lock mechanism implemented by SE currently only allows completely ...
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Can an OP add missing keyword(s) to code?
No the question should stay as it is,
because not only would this edit invalidate two answers (first, second) but I think we would send the wrong signals as well. It would look like it could be ...
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What do we do with out-of-sync questions?
A rollback is a dangerous option and should always be considered carefully. And yes, I've screwed this up myself at least once, so don't beat-up yourself too much about it either.
The entire point of ...
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Should we allow answer invalidation for otherwise off-topic questions?
Let me quote the answer to which @Mast posted a link in his answer:
Answers to off-topic questions are already invalid
One way to look at this is to say that if a question is invalid, it
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Request to re-open "Find out relation between Devices…" question
First I'd like to apologies that you've been put in this horrible situation.
Whilst your code was off-topic to start off with, you've tried many ways to get the question to be on-topic.
Mostly to be ...
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Request to re-open "Find out relation between Devices…" question
It happens regularly that the code in the post is broken (or otherwise not ready for review), but the problem is too complex to explain or demonstrate in the limited space afforded by a comment, and ...
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Request to re-open "Find out relation between Devices…" question
The code in question, although you state it is your code and you maintain it and you have added enough context, is too much obfuscated.
In its current form it just looks too much like example code ...
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Can an OP add missing keyword(s) to code?
Why do you need to come to meta?
In this case both parties involved are ok with it. Let them edit their posts however they want.
Surely we don't need a rule that says:
If an answerer agrees and ...
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Should we allow answer invalidation for otherwise off-topic questions?
Note: By time of posting of this meta question, the question in question wasn't closed yet. It is now.
Should we evaluate it on a case by case basis?
To the best of my knowledge, that's how it ...
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