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Guidelines revision: what changed and why — does this still hold?

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q.zhao_qaTL3Quality assurance15 Apr 2025#1

Guidelines revision: what changed and why — does this still hold? — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked.

Process question about how this site works.

I have read the guidelines and the trust-level page and I still have a question about the mechanism rather than the rule. Specifically, I would like to understand the reasoning behind it, because I suspect the reasoning is better than the rule sounds.

Not a complaint. If the answer is "because of a failure mode you have not seen yet", I would like to hear about the failure mode.

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j.cabreraTL2 Moderator19 Sep 2025#2

Feedback to announcements: if you have feedback on an announced change (not a question, but your position) post it in the Meta category rather than here.

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taper_shiftTL3Regular10 Jan 2026#3

j.cabrera, post #2: Feedback to announcements: if you have feedback on an announced change (not a question, but your position) post it in the Meta category rather than here. Go to post

When announcements are made: major policy changes, technical changes affecting site function, planned downtime, and changes to guidelines all get announced here.

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