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I applied for this edit a few weeks ago.

https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/1148560

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It was unanimously rejected by the reviewers. I'm not sure what I did wrong here - it seems to me that this edit made the post clearer, stripped irrelevant information out and fixed grammar.

I accept the decision of the reviewers, but I'd like to see how I could improve.

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    Its a bit of a harsh thing to ask but - what's the benefit of fixing up a 8 year old, apparently abandoned question?
    – Journeyman Geek Mod
    Commented Dec 8 at 11:01
  • XP is no longer a supported OS, so if OP is still needing an answer it should be forwarded to retrocomputing ?
    – Criggie
    Commented Dec 8 at 20:18
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    @Criggie - It's not eligible to be migrated. It's also within scope here; question (s) should only be migrated if they are out of scope here and within scope at the new community. The question is also abandoned.
    – Ramhound
    Commented 2 days ago
  • I should have added that I wouldn’t have declined the edit, but improved it, since there are some minor formatting and extremely minor grammatical errors still. However, it is an abandoned question, and the edit definitely will not result in an answer to the question.
    – Ramhound
    Commented 2 days ago
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    Is it required that an edit must help the question achieve answers? Edits can also make the question easier to understand for people who come across it in the future, and make it more searchable.
    – stickynotememo
    Commented 2 days ago
  • Also, if the problem is that I'm too late to the party, I understand. However, the reject reason was that my edit did not make the question less confusing. I expected that the reviewer should say that it's too late rather than choose an unrelated reason.
    – stickynotememo
    Commented 2 days ago
  • @stickynotememo - The edit must be complete. If you are changing tags of a question, then one of the goals of doing so, is making the question more discoverable. I would even argue that modifying a 8 year old question, should only be done, so it can be answered. Why is how new you are relevant to the discussion? All edits are held to the same criteria. There is no "too late" reason to reject an edit. It sounds like you need more experience in the UI of the edit approval process.
    – Ramhound
    Commented 2 days ago

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This is only my opinion. I did not vote on this edit. Take any applied upvotes/downvotes to judge whether it is a common opinion or not.

I can only guess here, but this question is so low on information to begin with it should be closed and deleted rather than edited.

If it were a new question, we would advise OP to tell us more about this firmware update they attempted, more about the keyboard and mouse, whether they'd tried alternate hardware, and at the same time we would have advised them to improve the format/layout of their question.

But, given its age it is clearly abandoned. While your edits did make the format and layout of the question no longer part of the problem, there is so little actual information regarding the problem and the context it occurs within that it needs a full reworking by OP, not any of us, before we could consider it possible to answer.

The error is not on your side: your edit was fine. Just, perhaps, use your edit skills (which you have) on more deserving questions, and for ones like this, vote to Close instead.

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