OP edits the question himself instead of accepting a suggested edit.

Question

First of all, I am not reaching out to the person who did this to disadvantage him.

Basically what happend is, the OP asked a question. I suggested some little edits to improve the formatting. Instead of accepting the edit I suggested, did the OP edit the question himself.

In addition to this event, is it allowed/acceptable for the OP to edit the question himself instead of accepting the suggested edit?

Answer 1

For some context here is what we see when reviewing suggested edits, as you may not be able to see the suggested edit queue yet:

There are options to "improve edit" and "reject and edit". This is also what the owner of the post will see when it has a pending suggested edit such as yours.

It looks a bit like the suggested edit was rejected as a "reject and edit". While some of your edits were incorporated there were more substantive changes that occurred. They could have simply improved your edit but they may not have felt your edit "did enough".

If they simply rejected your edit and then made the exact same edit then I would say that it was most definitely bad form.

There is some discussion across the network:

• How do suggested edits work
• Reject edit, only to make same edit supports the idea that if they had made the exact same edit then that would be somewhat rude.

It is a difficult call between rejection and improving for reviewers but ultimately the owner of the question has the power of veto. If they dislike or otherwise do not want an edit then it is their prerogative to reject it.

Morally they possibly maybe should have accepted your edit, but are they allowed to reject and edit their question themselves? Yes, they are.

Answer 2

Here's the review item. The post is deleted now, so I'll show the results pane here:

The edit was automatically rejected with no direct reviewer interaction. If it had been explicitly reviewed from the queue, there would be a "Reject and Edit" line like on this task or a human attached to the Reject line.

When there's a pending suggested edit on a post, the "edit" link becomes "edit (1)" and produces the review item instead of the editor window, so it's unlikely that the post author intentionally created a conflicting edit (I'm pretty sure it's possible, albeit inconvenient, to clobber a pending suggested edit outside the review queue). Here's part of the question's timeline:

The suggested edit was submitted at 8:24:49Z. The edit submitted by the question author that invalidated the suggested edit was done at 8:26:56Z, only two minutes later. Therefore, I suspect this is what happened:

1. The question author clicked "edit" to start working on some changes
2. You clicked "edit" to start working on a suggested edit
3. You finished your revisions and submitted the suggested edit
4. The question author submitted their edit, clobbering your pending suggestion

The question author may not have ever been aware of your edit.