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Somebody might enjoy writing a bot to propose updates that demonstrate better practices (like prepared SQL statements) for the 80% of bad examples where this is a pretty trivial manipulation.

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There's a small group that does its best to flag questions with comments and steer people towards the right way of doing things. Ninja-editing questions to "fix" problems doesn't teach anyone anything.

Does this site link to the relevant questions, though? Because I can't see it.

Not currently, but the data is there so it would be easy to provide a link for each question.

Edit: Done - the date is now a link to the question.

Thanks very much. I know I've been a bit critical about the implementation in these comments, but it's only because I see such value in the concept, and that's much more important, tbf.

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