What to do with mediocre edits with "blah blah" edit message?

Question

In review I came across a suggested edit for this question:

• https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/331202/135943

The proposed edit ain't bad, just a tiny bit of grammar and wording cleanup. It's not a totally trivial edit, but not a major copy-edit job either. (As I said, mediocre.)

I would have clicked "approve" except I really don't want to encourage the laziness and sloppiness of including the edit message, "Improve blah blah."

I found this related meta post:

• What is the best way to improve the edits made by a suggested editor

But, I haven't seen a post that discussed acceptable edits with a sloppy or uninformative edit message.

What are the options? What do you think should be done in such a case?

Answer 1

Assuming that the suggested edit is good enough that you would consider accepting it, based on its own merits, and ignoring the comment, here’s a possible approach:

The first time you see something like this:

1. Accept the edit (or improve it).
2. Leave a comment for the editor asking him to write better comments.  (You can @-ping people who have (successfully) edited a post.  But you’ll have to type (or copy and paste) the user’s name, because it isn’t included in the auto-complete.  And this doesn’t work at all for users who have suggested edits that were rejected.)
3. Make a note of the user name.

Then, when you see more low-quality edit comments coming from the same users, reject them.