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Per the wiki comparison, there's an edit button on every answer and question -- it works even if you're not logged in. Try it!

I'm starting to think that calling the edit button "improve this answer" and "improve this question" was a mistake..

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I always had the idea that the edit button was for minor corrections or clarifications of the post and not to radically change the post itself.

if the information in the answer is incorrect as of a certain version of the library / environment, it's perfectly fine for anyone with a web browser to edit that additional information into the post.

Does this allow you to flag a question in a way which means it shows up in the queue of unanswered questions and is thus likely to attract an answer from someone monitoring the relevant tags? I didn't see an obvious way to do this from a quick experiment.

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