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What to do with mediocre edits with "blah blah" edit message?
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 ...
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Mass editing to change generic example URLs
Both example.com and the entire top level .example domain are officially approved for example usage. See the following RFCs and Wikipedia entries:
example.com - RFC 2606, section 3 and Wikipedia
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How to handle mass minor edits from a user?
I have been reviewing the user's edits and, for the vast majority, they are actually quite helpful. Yes, they are more geared towards grammar and formatting, but overall, edits of this type do lift ...
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How useful are the markdown tags for keys?
I agree that it's likely a low rep user, attempting to gain rep, which is fine. I would put this to you, is the edit worthwhile enough that it makes the Q or A better than it was before? If so then ...
slmMod
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"Suggestion should be comment", but it really shouldn't
Your edit was indeed helpful. Your changes were absolutely improving the answer and, as you said, it wouldn't even run without the missing quote. Most importantly, you fixed the (( failed )) || return ...
terdonMod
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Edit Review Rejections
I have to agree with derobert. I don't see a single valid edit in your profile. In fact, I have rolled back the two that were approved. Let's look at your edits:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/...
terdonMod
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Adding a tag which refers to the best answer in the case of /sed and /awk when there is also /text-processing?
Tags help display questions to the right people. They don't mainly function to describe a question.
Tags are mainly additive, not subtractive. People follow tags to hear about new questions in those ...
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Mass editing to change generic example URLs
Changing .com to .example seems like, at best, a neutral change and at worst a bad one since it is changing a standard and immediately recognizable domain to one that is not even easily recognizable. ...
terdonMod
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Reconsider "no improvement whatsoever" rejection
You may have a point in general, but I fear your example is a bad one. That edit was absolutely harmful! It changed a correct grammatical question ("How can I?") into something that is ...
terdonMod
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Reviewing edits
I agree with your reluctance around this.
Given no examples in the answer used that switch, adding it seems superfluous and I would've rejected it with this reason:
clearly conflicts with author'...
slmMod
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Clarification on rejected edit
Thank you for improving Unix Stack Exchange! Your edit suggestion was indeed best as an edit to the existing answer. It's a minor increment to the existing answer, so it's best added to that answer ...
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Edit Review Rejections
Looking at your profile, it seems you've made edit suggestions on What makes a distribution GNU and are there Linux distributions, that are not GNU? mainly changing "operating system" to "system ...
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How to handle mass minor edits from a user?
Before suggested edits were revamped last year, there was a rejection reason for this case. It read:
too minor - This edit is too minor; suggested edits should be substantive improvements ...
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What’s the course of action when you think someone is being unjust?
I'd like to give a little feedback; I (obviously?) don't speak for G-Man or anyone else.
First: thank you for helping to improve the site! I still remember the days of getting +2 reputation from ...
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Accepted
What do I do when a user edits their question with another account
This generally happens because they posted the question on an unregistered account and then later registered one when they realized they would need to follow-up on comments. I have yet to come across ...
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Accepted
Retracting an edit suggestion
I have rejected your edit so no harm done. In my opinion, this is not something that happens often enough to merit a feature. Next time, just pop into the main site's chat room and ask someone there ...
terdonMod
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8
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Rejected question edit
Based on the diff in the suggestion, you did change random things: n=0 became n=1, an ((n++)) went missing, as did a skip=0 argument, possibly other things. Changing code in a question is risky ...
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Accepted
How did this edit got around the minimum 6 character limit?
This is just my perspective on it; I don't know exactly how the SE code calculates the changes (apart from having just learned that the differences are calculated after applying Markdown).
According ...
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Reconsider "no improvement whatsoever" rejection
On the reviewer side, there's a meaningful difference between the current message:
This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. ...
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Reviewing edits
I don’t know it this is an abuse of the causes harm option but I sometimes treat it as a general purpose method for providing custom feedback to the editor – so that they learn something from the ...
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An edit for answer changes it considerably. Should I allow it?
The Stack Overflow (site, not company) policy on this is to reject any edits which change the content, and not form, of the answer.
I call this dumb. (I've had this debate there.)
We are not here to ...
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Adding a tag which refers to the best answer in the case of /sed and /awk when there is also /text-processing?
When I tag, I do it in the context of the question, which is exactly what the help center tells us:
A tag is a word or phrase that describes the topic of the question. Tags are a means of ...
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Can't suggest an edit or flag the missing image, because the post is locked
It is a feature. The point of locking a post is to keep it from being developed by the community (edits, answers, anything) until the author fixes whatever rules it violates.
It sucks when there is ...
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Accepted
Edited and got two points for it but it isn't showing up anywhere in my stats or achivements
You edited a question that was then deleted. So, while your edit was approved and you got your +2, you can't see the post in your profile because the question is no longer visible to you.
terdonMod
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Review a minor suggested edit
A bug in suggested edits was tracked down where around 100 older suggested edits had been missed¹.
¹ Do I get a special badge now, having reviewed one of these unique suggested edits?
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Reviewing Suggested Edits
If any of your posts (questions or answers) are edited, you will receive a message letting you know. If the user who edited the post has less than 2k reputation, you will be given the chance to ...
terdonMod
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"Suggestion should be comment", but it really shouldn't
I agree that the first version of the answer was severely flawed
— I’m the one who down voted.
I agree that it’s OK for edits to fix technical errors in answers.
Reviewers often reject such edits
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Unintuitive behavior of "Suggested Edits" review queue
It sounds like intended behavior. From Reject or approve suggested edits on deleted post?:
Our reviewing FAQ on handling suggested edits outlines why you would approve or reject a suggested edit and, ...
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Edits must be at least 6 characters
I've registered with U&L yesterday and came across this issue three times now, when trying to add tags or missing quotes as I used to over at SO. I can sincerely say I consider this limitation an ...
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Accepted
No longer Earning Rep for Edits
According to the FAQ:
You gain reputation when:
suggested edit is accepted: +2 (up to +1000 total per user)
According to this SEDE query:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SuggestedEdits WHERE ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible