Editing Answers

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• When should I edit someone else's answer?
• I seem to be seeing more examples like the following: What is the rule in dividing positive and negative rational numbers? Abuse or spam but following the link only leads to a reasonable question and a reasonable response. Am I missing something?
• Question #373ba
• Lets say one answer i saw is copied and pasted. how do i improve it? Is it okay to completely erase what the original author has written?
• Is there a way to undo changes to your answer? I've had on an occasion someone adding several trivial/self-evident intermediate steps to an answer which make it more long winded and harder to follow. Would be good to have the option to undo such a change.
• How do I get back to a question that I now wish to edit?
• What are recent collaborators?
• What happened to "suggest improvements" on answers?
• Is there a way to edit a featured answer?
• Why shouldn't we get angry or annoyed when someone edits our answer?
• Would Socratic benefit from a “suggest edit” feature for answers?
• Question #99733
• Why do some answers have several edits by the same person?
• Is there some appropriate action when you notice that someone has "updated" an answer by completely replacing it?