Editing privileges suspended - reactivated at 2k rep

Question

My account had editing privileges suspended for 7 days for rejected edits. I hit 2,000 reputation and I gain the privileged to edit questions and answers without another user's review AND the suspension is no longer active.

I assume this is status-bydesign, but my question is, should it be by design? If a user did something to have privileges revoked, does the accumulation of reputation points negate the undesired action that was previously performed? Does this happen with other privileges as other rep levels?

To test something, I also went and decreased my reputation back below 2,000 and the restrictions that I previously had were still in place which leads me to believe that the restriction flag is unaffected by reputation, so why should the privilege's flag be affected by rep?

As the tag suggests, I just want to start a discussion about this because I can't find documentation that explains the rationale, whether it be correct or incorrect..

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Edit

Back above 2,000 reputation and the editing privileges are re-enabled. In a twist, I cannot edit tag-wikis, which is what I gained the suspension for. The suspension remains active with the same message:

Too many of your edits were rejected, try again in 7 days.

Perhaps this is not intentional or there is a sophisticated system of flags, in which case my original question of whether or not this is status-bydesign has been answered and it is. Still remains is whether or not it should be.

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Edit 2

All my privileges have been restored. I haven't seen much additional discussion here by (admin/moderator team) so I guess I'll just assume this is all by design and it's okay that this is the design. Unfortunately, the one answer available is difficult to mark as correct because it doesn't address whether or not this issue has been discussed.

Answer 1

What you temporarily lost was the privilege to suggest edits. As you reached 2000 rep, you could edit questions and answers directly, which is a distinct privilege from suggesting edits. As long as the ban lasts, you won't be able to suggest edits to tag wikis (you need 20,000 rep to edit tag wikis without supervision). Similarly, you were still able to make tag edits during the ban.

If you can suggest tag wiki edits before the ban wears off, then that is a bug.

I haven't looked at your activity history, but at a guess, you submitted a bunch of tag wikis from Wikipedia and they were rejected, right? That's a prevalent problem on many Stack Exchange sites. Wikipedia rarely has the kind of information that's relevant here. On technical sites like SU, we don't care about the details of a software project's history, or even more than a quick description of its features; what's more important is “how to I achieve/fix this” concerns.

Answer 2

The training wheels are off now. Hopefully you learned something from the rejections, but if not... If you start making a bunch of edits that are seen as unhelpful or abusive...

...Then the consequences can include having all of your privileges suspended.

Normally of course, it wouldn't come to this. Edits you make now will be immediately visible to other users and moderators, who should be quick to notify you if you're causing problems. Usually this can be worked out in quiet conversation.

But just be aware - the "suggested edit" system exists as much to educate you as it does to protect the site from unwanted edits; once you're editing without its constraints, you'll need to rely on your own judgement.