Recently I discovered that a new bang had been added to DuckDuckGo, and I was curious about how long the new bang has been around. A Google search led me to this question:
Is there a way to get the overall list of all DuckDuckGo Bangs, together with the categories and history of each bang being introduced or modified?
For some reason, it was closed as a duplicate of another question that only asked for a list of bangs, not a list of bangs with categories and history. So I flagged it as "in need of moderator intervention" (apologies if that link doesn't work; I couldn't figure out how to get a public link to the flag):
This question should be reopened because it is not a duplicate of the linked question. That question only asks for a list of bangs, whereas this one asks for a list of bangs with history.
The flag was marked as "helpful" with this note:
Please suggest an edit indicating that the duplicate does not answer the history portion and the question will be pulled into the Reopen queue
So I suggested an edit with the comment "added note about why this question is not a duplicate", in which I added this paragraph to the end of the question:
The question Comprehensive list of all available !bangs on DuckDuckGo.com is similar to this one, but while that question only asks for a list of bangs, this question is asking for a list of bangs with history and categories.
To my surprise, the edit was rejected by two users with this reason:
This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an answer.
I tried to follow the instructions given in response to the flag that I raised, but I guess the exact edit that I made wasn't what I was supposed to do. What was incorrect about the edit that I made, and how should I have properly edited the question to indicate that it is not a duplicate?