The text of one of my posts' titles was completely changed. From "Asking the wrong questions vs. asking at the wrong site" to "Why we don't accept shopping questions". (The latter could be a little different because I changed the title back and can't find the edits)  The meaning and purpose of the post was destroyed. I find this practice from a few users irresponsible, demeaning and immoral. While I did post my disappointment about the reasons one my posts was closed and the topic was related to shopping, I don't find a reason to change a stand alone post to correlate with something I previously mentioned. The post below was all about asking the right question. It had nothing to do with shopping.  What do you think of titles being completely replaced with no what the poster had intended? Regardless of some editor thinks.
I'm getting pretty close to the reputation where I can start to edit others' posts, and I'm wondering what the etiquette for when (and when not) to do so. I figure that I should edit in the following circumstances:  Grammatical or spelling errors. Clarification where the meaning is not changed. For instance if the title does not describe the question very well. Where the user has made a very minor mistake that doesn't justify a full post to clarify. To add related resources or links that will help someone answer the post, or provide context  Before the commenting feature was added, I noticed that some moderators edit posts in order to insert a reply or extension to the post. I feel this isn't good etiquette (but I could be wrong) because I don't know what to do with their changes when I come to re-edit or respond. I also feel that I should be very careful not to change the meaning of any question or answer, even if that meaning is misguided. What other rules would be best practice?  Signatures and fluff are discouraged and are fair game to be removed.  See, for example, this post by  and this post by  and also see .  Also see Jeff Atwood's response in the comments to
Create NSString by repeating another string a given number of times Run multiple instance of a program in parallel How to suppress Terminated message after killing in bash? Adjusting space between array rows and columns How do I tell if matrices are similar? I was editing a curve for hair, and pressed W to bring the specials menu and Subdivide it, but instead everything but the curve I had active dissapeared, and my cursor turned into a circle like the one from the circle select mode.  I'm guessing they changed the specials menu and I'm inside some unknown to me function, but I'm not sure how to turn everything back to normal. This is what I'm trying to do:  I have a website A where I make configuration changes and add other stuff. Now I create a website B. I would like to add the configuration changes from website A to this website.   I know the UUID of both websites have to be the same (like staging &amp; production environment). In "" they explain how to do this with drush cget system.site.   The problem is when I run drush cget system.site in my website A I get the following drush error:     Command config-get needs a higher bootstrap level to run - you will need to invoke drush from a more functional Drupal environment to run this command.                                                               [error]   The drush command 'cget system.site' could not be executed.                                                                                                                                                           [error]   Drush was not able to start (bootstrap) the Drupal database.                                                                                                                                                          [error]   Hint: This may occur when Drush is trying to:    * bootstrap a site that has not been installed or does not have a configured database. In this case you can select another site with a working database setup by specifying the URI to use with the --uri parameter   on the command line. See drush topic docs-aliases for details.    * connect the database through a socket. The socket file may be wrong or the php-cli may have no access to it in a jailed shell. See  for details.   Drush was attempting to connect to:  Drupal version         :  8.0.0-rc1  Site URI               :  http://default  Database driver        :  mysql  Database hostname      :  localhost  Database port          :  3306  Database username      :  root  Database name          :  s_1  PHP executable         :  /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.10/bin//php  PHP configuration      :  /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.10/conf/php.ini  PHP OS                 :  Darwin  Drush script           :  /Users/myname/.composer/vendor/drush/drush/drush.php  Drush version          :  8.0-dev  Drush temp directory   :  /tmp  Drush configuration    :  Drush alias files      :  Drupal root            :  /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/s1  Site path              :  sites/default  Sync config path       :  sites/default/files/config_bZM1aJhLcWGpFZJEzfEw_pKF4g71jOdkSRti30k540BAwE9GQ4U6p469a9VxyJS4j4JVfC58qg/sync   I've installed the latest version of drush .. . I'm working with the release candidate of Drupal 8. Is there another way to get my UUID? Or do you have a tutorial or a video/blogpost of somebody who already did this?  UPDATE:  Ok, I was able to retrieve the UUID from website A and changed the UUID in website B so they have the equal UUID.  After that I changed the system site slogan of website A.  Then I did an export of the configuration in website A. But when I tried to import it in website B I got 137 new files to sync .. . The UUID is different in all files like this:    When I tried to synchronize I got the following error: Allowing FTP access to a local user without allowing SSH/command line access Are there philosophers who examined the reasons for believing in the existence of other people? While I am familiar with Descartes and the oft-quoted idea, I think therefore I am, I am not familiar with any philosophy that actively sought to rationalize that anybody else exists.  Are there philosophers who analyzed this question? Or is it taken for granted that it is (im)possible for anybody to validate their own existence to somebody else? Unable to get Excel to recognise date in column I constantly have problems working with dates in Excel, I must be doing something wrong but I don't understand what.  I have a spreadsheet, exported from our exchange server, that contains a column with dates on. They have come out in US format even though I'm in the UK.   The column in question looks like this  04/08/2012 04/09/2009 04/01/2010 04/21/2011 04/05/2012 08/30/2009 08/29/2010 08/28/2011   In Excel, I have highlighted the column and selected Format Cells.... In this dialog box, I have selected the Date, selected English (United States) as the locale and chosen the matching date format from the list. I hit OK and try to sort the data by this column.   In the sort dialogue I choose this column, select sort on Values but the order only gives me options for A to Z, not oldest to newest as I would expect.  This in turn sorts the date data by the first two digits.  I am aware I could re-format this data to ISO and then the A to Z sort would work but I shouldn't have too, I'm obviously missing something. What is it?  EDIT: I messed up the bounty but this should have gone to @r0berts answer, his first suggestion of Text to Columns with no delimiter and choosing 'MDY' as the type of data works. Additionally, if you have a time (i.e. 04/21/2015 18:34:22), you need to first get rid of the time data. However after that the method suggested by @r0berts works fine. Vim inoremap for specific filetypes , where a user had taken the time to look at the link on a post and realized that the post wasn't just off-topic, it was actually half-decently-disguised spam. So he flagged it as spam, and an overworked mod declined it, giving the questioner the benefit of the doubt. And we probably want mods to be giving the questioner the benefit of the doubt.  We also want to get rid of spam ASAP, and make the lives of mods easier. I'd like to suggest a feature the mod in question mused might be useful: An optional textbox where you can add a note saying why you think it's spam, so the mod can see it easily. In this case, the helpful user who went the extra mile could have written "Site linked doesn't relate at all to the question, instead solicits BitCoins" or similar.  One can leave a comment on the question, but:   People sometimes leave...unhelpful...comments on spam questions, and we don't want mods to have to take the time to read through them hoping for something useful It allows the user flagging the spam to do so and say why without calling attention to themselves publicly     Update: We may well want this for all flags, but in particular I had reason to want it for an NAA flag, so I've posted . Can I upload an entire folder using FTP? I need to upload a full folder using FTP.  Is there is any option for transferring a folder and all of its contents at once? in a topological space only finite subsets are compact sets If in a topological space only finite subsets are compact sets, is it then the discrete topological space?   Thank you. Why no tag Badges for Good questions Why not make  but for questions too?  I love that everything is well though behind SO but I can't see no reason as to why great questions can't be prized with "Badges by subject". In a dictionary like this:  Dictionary&lt;string, string&gt; openWith = new Dictionary&lt;string, string&gt;();  openWith.Add("txt", "notepad.exe"); openWith.Add("bmp", "paint.exe"); openWith.Add("dib", "paint.exe"); openWith.Add("rtf", "wordpad.exe");  Console.WriteLine("For key = \"rtf\", value = {0}.", openWith["rtf"]);   The output is:     For Key = "rtf" value = wordpad.exe   What does the {0} mean? Bending of light - photon's inertia instead of mass I am taking my first dive into testing a mobile app.  It will be available to iOS and Android.  I've been searching for a way to test and automate iOS without having an actual iPhone or any other Mac device.  We run Windows here at the office.  I was looking to use iPhone emulators but it doesn't seem possible.  I saw Appium Studio/SeeTest but it seems even that requires iTunes and a real device.  I know you can set up a Mac vm on a Windows machine but are there any other ways to test iPhone without having to do this? try+gerund/infinitive (Difference in meaning) I tried to open the door. I tried opening the door   We can use both infinitive and gerund with verb "try" as used in above sentences. Does it change the meaning of the  sentence if use gerund or infinitive?.(here i don't know if the meaning of sentences is changed.)     The same confusion arise in these two sentences.  1.I stopped seeing him. 2. I stopped to see him.(But in case of these two sentence i know the meaning is changed but don't know exactly what the change is). How to replace a string with a string containing slash with sed?