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Should users suggest technical edits?

If it was one of my answers I'd accept it. Otherwise, it depends, but I'd not auto accept it and I'd more likely than not pass on or reject the edit. Part of the problem is the lack of context. In a …
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What is wrong with me?

In this case - there's two things. As they are, the edits are on a question that feels not materially improved by them. Its not you, but its a guessing game question that's somewhat likely to be close …
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Why was my edit rejected if it improves the question's readability?

So... here's what happened. OP rejected and edited, and that overrode the one accept. Since OP dosen't need their edit reviewed, your edit was declined in favour of OP's edit. This triggered a bit rej …
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Edit that updates obsolete command-line parameters gets rejected?

I overuled the edit rejection. I get that that's a major change but there's no information loss from your edit. I can't/won't really speculate on the rejection reasons, but I think that's a perfectly …
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Requesting clarity on edits that update redirecting URLs

Pointing out that the links are redirected and you're editing them specifically so they don't go stale would likely ensure they're accepted. Coulda done worse, I once had a valid edit rejected elsewhe …
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Managing user who edit only tags of several questions

Some background here. The user's currently trying to work his way out of a question ban, and well, he's being somewhat enthusiastic about it. There's a few questions here by him on the topic. I stro …
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Are edits for just filling in image descriptions accepted?

Not really. if they are alongside other reasonably substancial edits, go ahead. Editing to fix something 90% of our users will never see seems pointless. One exception might be if the question would …
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Should I perform a duck test when reviewing suggested edits?

We can't merge accounts any more. We basically use a duck test + a quick look at whatever PII we have, and pass it up to a CM. There's nothing that a regular user can do. In many cases I actually sugg …
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Should old opinion-based questions be significantly edited?

Eh, mayb, but you can't save them all. I've totally posted an answer to a question that could be POB with... a lot of detail and graphs and even a link to a spreadhseet On the other hand, as someone …
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