I've already mentioned this to a couple of editors in the /dev/chat chat, but I think it may be worth mentioning in a Meta post as well.

Please don't make trivial edits to questions that were recently put "on hold". Doing any editing within the first five days of being put on hold pushes them into the "reopen" review queue.

If your edit is merely a correction of grammatical errors or a cleanup of the question's markup, without addressing the actual reason the question was put on hold, then

• the question will likely not be reopened in review, and
• when the original author fixes whatever the actual issue is with the question, it will not be put back into the review queue, and
• as a consequence, the user will be denied the opportunity to have their question automatically pushed into the reopen review queue.

If a question was put on hold, there is no need to edit it, especially not to just remove a couple of lines of "Thank you" or "I'm a noob", or to fix markup or spelling (unless this contributed to the question being put on hold, which would be sad).

If you feel that you can actually improve the state of the question in such a way that it would be worth reopening, then by all means edit it, and then vote to reopen it.

This has been mentioned in discussion before, but I felt that it's worth pointing out again. For old discussions, please see

• improving closed questions without reopening
• Show reopen prospects when editing closed questions

I've already mentioned this to a couple of editors in the /dev/chat chat, but I think it may be worth mentioning in a Meta post as well.

Please don't make trivial edits to questions that were recently put "on hold". Doing any editing within the first five days of being put on hold pushes them into the "reopen" review queue.

If your edit is merely a correction of grammatical errors or a cleanup of the question's markup, without addressing the actual reason the question was put on hold, then

• the question will likely not be reopened in review, and
• when the original author fixes whatever the actual issue is with the question, it will not be put back into the review queue, and
• as a consequence, the user will be denied the opportunity to have their question automatically pushed into the reopen review queue.

If a question was put on hold, there is no need to edit it, especially not to just remove a couple of lines of "Thank you" or "I'm a noob", or to fix markup or spelling (unless this contributed to the question being put on hold, which would be sad).

If you feel that you can actually improve the state of the question in such a way that it would be worth reopening, then by all means edit it, and then vote to reopen it.

This has been mentioned in discussion before, but I felt that it's worth pointing out again. For old discussions, please see

• improving closed questions without reopening
• Show reopen prospects when editing closed questions

I've already mentioned this to a couple of editors in the /dev/chat chat, but I think it may be worth mentioning in a Meta post as well.

Please don't edit questions that were recently put "on hold". Doing so within the first five days of being put on hold pushes them into the "reopen" review queue.

If your edit is merely a correction of grammatical errors or a cleanup of the question's markup, without addressing the actual reason the question was put on hold, then

• the question will likely not be reopened in review, and
• when the original author fixes whatever the actual issue is with the question, it will not be put back into the review queue, and
• as a consequence, the user will be denied the opportunity to have their question automatically pushed into the reopen review queue.

If a question was put on hold, there is no need to edit it, especially not to just remove a couple of lines of "Thank you" or "I'm a noob", or to fix markup or spelling (unless this contributed to the question being put on hold, which would be sad).

If you feel that you can actually improve the state of the question in such a way that it would be worth reopening, then by all means edit it, and then vote to reopen it.

This has been mentioned in discussion before, but I felt that it's worth pointing out again. For old discussions, please see

• improving closed questions without reopening
• Show reopen prospects when editing closed questions

I've already mentioned this to a couple of editors in the /dev/chat chat, but I think it may be worth mentioning in a Meta post as well.

Please don't make trivial edits to questions that were recently put "on hold". Doing any editing within the first five days of being put on hold pushes them into the "reopen" review queue.

If your edit is merely a correction of grammatical errors or a cleanup of the question's markup, without addressing the actual reason the question was put on hold, then

• the question will likely not be reopened in review, and
• when the original author fixes whatever the actual issue is with the question, it will not be put back into the review queue, and
• as a consequence, the user will be denied the opportunity to have their question automatically pushed into the reopen review queue.

If a question was put on hold, there is no need to edit it, especially not to just remove a couple of lines of "Thank you" or "I'm a noob", or to fix markup or spelling (unless this contributed to the question being put on hold, which would be sad).

If you feel that you can actually improve the state of the question in such a way that it would be worth reopening, then by all means edit it, and then vote to reopen it.

This has been mentioned in discussion before, but I felt that it's worth pointing out again. For old discussions, please see

• improving closed questions without reopening
• Show reopen prospects when editing closed questions

I've already mentioned this to a couple of editors in the /dev/chat chat, but I think it may be worth mentioning in a Meta post as well.

Please don't edit questions that were recently put "on hold". Doing so within the first five days of being put on hold pushes them into the "reopen" review queue.

If your edit is merely a correction of grammatical errors or a cleanup of the question's markup, without addressing the actual reason the question was put on hold, then

• the question will likely not be reopened in review, and
• when the original author fixes whatever the actual issue is with the question, it will not be put back into the review queue, and
• as a consequence, the user will be denied the opportunity to have their question automatically pushed into the reopen review queue.

If a question was put on hold, there is no need to edit it, especially not to just remove a couple of lines of "Thank you" or "I'm a noob", or to fix markup or spelling (unless this contributed to the question being put on hold, which would be sad).

If you feel that you can actually improve the state of the question in such a way that it would be worth reopening, then by all means edit it, and then vote to reopen it.

This has been mentioned in discussion before, but I felt that it's worth pointing out again. For old discussions, please see

• improving closed questions without reopening
• Show reopen prospects when editing closed questions

Addendum: When editing posts, and especially when editing questions that have been closed within the past five days (and especially if you’re <2K and you’re submitting a suggested edit), try to identify all the things in the post that should (can) be improved, and change them all in one edit.  Don’t make one small edit, and then another, and then another.  If you have lots of changes to make and you’re afraid of losing your Internet connection, work in an editor on your system and copy & paste to Stack Exchange when you’re ready to go all in.

• As explained above, even a small change to a recently closed question will push it into the reopen queue.  If all you make is a small edit, the question will probably not be reopened, so you will have wasted the “free” reopen review.
• If you’re submitting suggested edits, you’re making work for reviewers in the Suggested Edits queue.  Please don’t make extra work for those reviewers.  And, if you make a lot of edits to the same post, it looks like you’re trying to milk the system for reputation (i.e., getting the +2 multiple times).
• Large numbers of small edits clutter the revision history.

I've already mentioned this to a couple of editors in the /dev/chat chat, but I think it may be worth mentioning in a Meta post as well.

Please don't edit questions that were recently put "on hold". Doing so within the first five days of being put on hold pushes them into the "reopen" review queue.

If your edit is merely a correction of grammatical errors or a cleanup of the question's markup, without addressing the actual reason the question was put on hold, then

• the question will likely not be reopened in review, and
• when the original author fixes whatever the actual issue is with the question, it will not be put back into the review queue, and
• as a consequence, the user will be denied the opportunity to have their question automatically pushed into the reopen review queue.

If a question was put on hold, there is no need to edit it, especially not to just remove a couple of lines of "Thank you" or "I'm a noob", or to fix markup or spelling (unless this contributed to the question being put on hold, which would be sad).

If you feel that you can actually improve the state of the question in such a way that it would be worth reopening, then by all means edit it, and then vote to reopen it.

This has been mentioned in discussion before, but I felt that it's worth pointing out again. For old discussions, please see

• improving closed questions without reopening
• Show reopen prospects when editing closed questions