A user with almost 20k reputation has edited all the answers of "You are your self first supporter", a more proper way to say it to have "consistent" numbering amongst the answers.
This seems ... odd. I see no reason to have answers refer to each other (even implicitly), or to have any sort of consistency between each other. I haven't yet checked to see if they've done this for other questions.
Is this behaviour acceptable or disruptive?
In my opinion, if the user wanted to present a numbered list of options, they should have written their own answer and presented such a list in a form where they could maintain it. I see these edits as similar to summarizing the answers, and they cause the same issues with maintenance that summarizing the answers in the question would cause (If there is more than one right answer can I summarize the answers?), but without the extra help of getting notified that something about the question had changed because the person making the edits isn't the author of the question.
As it stands now, answers will be added with new options that are unnumbered or out of order and for anyone who hasn't been monitoring this question from the beginning, it will add more confusion than it will help clear up. We should always keep in mind that we are writing for the person that will find our answers a year from now and not just the person we're currently engaging with.
I am in favor of rolling back these edits, but I will wait to see what the community says.
This may be a bit late, but as the post is still on "Hot Meta", I thought of adding my point of view as the appreciative OP.
But first, I have to disagree with the title as it wasn't an attempt of unifying the "answers" since they weren't all answers; mines were simply two suggestions with a high possibility of being stated incorrectly.
I found @Jasper's move as a way of numbering the suggestions of the phrase, which I wanted to achieve, to make references to any of them easier especially for the future answerers at that time. Thus, it was an advantage for them to use if they needed and/or wanted to.
However, and after reading @ColleenV's answer, I have second thoughts about it, but of course, that doesn't mean @Jasper is anything less than a genius.
Here is a slightly different case. It is similar in that the question presented a list of possible statements, asked for commentary on the statements, and asked answerers to provide alternatives. Also, I edited both questions in the way that has been called into question.
Which one is correct, “the attribution” or “an attribution”?
In this example, it was helpful to number the statements in the question, and number the statements in my answer, and make an effort to avoid having the numbers conflict. Notice that the answer needed to refer to both statements in the question and in the answer.
