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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 ...
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Did I create, then fail my own review audit?

Questions can be pushed into the Reopen Votes queue either by an edit or a reopen vote. As you said, the only revisions were made by you after you saw the review item, so that couldn't have created ...
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This question was closed-as-dup but the accepted answer is out-of-date

If the new question showed a decent research effort, there would be no reason to close it as a duplicate. For example I need an answer for a recent Firefox version (I have Firefox 42). I saw this ...
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Over 54,000 questions with no answers!

Very few of the unanswered questions are ones that just need an edit bump or a bounty to get them answered. We should certainly do that when it will help, but that won't make a big dent. Ones that ...
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Edit someone else's question vs approve edit, reputation wise

Its by design. People did bad reviews, and as such they made the initial one review to accept into two, improving and Approving would let you immediately approve a post. The idea is that a robo ...
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Send message in private in Superuser

There's no private messaging system - in fact, for most part SE's designed to minimise private interaction. The closest thing we have to a private messaging system for regular users is chat (And I don'...
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Im Losing a lot of rep to edits that are not really necessary

Is there any way I can not accept the edits? The original poster can always revert edits. In this particular case I advise you not to do so, because, in addition to correcting capitalisation, the ...
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Why is my comment locked from editing & how can I modify it?

Comments are only available to be modified in the next 5 minutes after you send them, once this time passes, they are permanent and cannot be modified. You can, however: Either simply add another ...
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Too many edits issue. Post-ban support

You keep hitting on the automatic limits we can't do anything about. No we cannot remove these limits and they are automatic and there's no way to undo them. The official line here is you'll just have ...
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OP edits the question himself instead of accepting a suggested edit.

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 ...
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Edit to correct a basic path syntax error in an answer rejected - why?

An extract from this answer What is the correct way to deal with obsolete answers? by slhck (a SU moderator) provides some clues (my emphasis): The ideal solution in such a case, of course, is to ...
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Notify a rejected or accepted edit

You stated: It is possible that he/she forgets about that edit and miss even the comment that sometimes are given with the rejection. Unlikely, as the next time they submit an edit they will see a ...
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Why can I edit everyone's posts?

You can do this because we allow anyone to make an attempt to make the site a better place. Until you reach 2000 reputation your edits will be community reviewed. This means that a new user cannot ...
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When should additional information be an edit vs a comment vs a separate answer?

Should links and excerpts from relevant documentation be an edit, or should they be a comment, or should they be a separate answer? If this had simply been the case, of modifying the links that were ...
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Further peer review required for edit

Yep, that was me that rejected the edit. I did so because on the Markdown edit viewer (which is where I look at edits) all you see is this: From that it looked like all you had done is change "...
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Managing user who edit only tags of several questions

I've the feeling he's doing that just for gaining reputation. This way he forces also reviewers to spend time checking his edits, instead of working on higher quality ones. Should / can we do ...
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Im Losing a lot of rep to edits that are not really necessary

While there is already an answer, as the actual editor of the post in question I feel I need to explain. “…but should I really have to spend 30 minutes spellchecking and grammar checking my work ...
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When should additional information be an edit vs a comment vs a separate answer?

I'm in the habit of editing answers to add links to this relevant content whenever I find myself googling something in the answer. Oh, for goodness's sake, don't do this. I see the point of editing ...
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OP edits the question himself instead of accepting a suggested edit.

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 ...
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Over 54,000 questions with no answers!

It's always a fact of life that there are more questions than answers. This is true of all SE sites, and all questions that have ever been asked in general, even questions unrelated to technology long ...
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Further peer review required for edit

Here's the Suggested Edits review task, for anyone interested. Your changes were good, but they didn't go far enough. Specifically, you left code-like stuff (file paths and commands) italicized, ...
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How do I know how long I am banned for suggesting edits?

Your ban will expire in 23 hours from now so approximately 18:00 04 March 2016. In future though, please do more than just edit titles. The edits you have been doing were superfluous at best and in ...
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Placing a user's comment in their own post

Are we able to edit his post and paste his extra information there? Sure, that is a good thing to do as comments are not meant to be permanent in the same way that questions or answers are. However, ...
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Informative comments, should they deleted?

It seems at least here, that the opinion is that informative comments ta should be deleted, and wonder why that was so? Informative comments should be avoided because they can be deleted at any ...
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Informative comments, should they deleted?

Comments are, preferentially, for teasing out information. Rather than being permanent fixtures of "this is some information" they are best used as "trial and error" or ...
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"Modified by" listed but no edit visible by mentioned user?

The answer was posted but was subsequently deleted because it was flagged as spam. Since there was activity on the post, it gets bumped up.
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Editing of recently closed questions

Don't forget the Suggested Edit queue here. A minor edit might be made before the question was closed, and get approved afterward. If you see a question is closed, and it has a suggested edit, reject ...
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Is it okay to point readers to the edit history of an answer for old, (mostly) out-of-date information?

Thanks to @DavidPostill and @KamilMaciorowski for the feedback in the comments. I've reverted from Option #3 to #2 based on their advice. For the particular answer I mentioned above, I've: Rolled-...
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Edit Recommendations

You cover several topics: I recently flagged an answer as "Not An Answer" This flag should be used only for post which doesn't even try to answer the question (asking for clarification; ...
Máté Juhász's user avatar
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Please offer guidance as to why this edit was rejected

The comments by fixer1234 answer your question pretty well, but, since I’m one of the people who voted to reject your edit, I’ll confirm them, in a bit more detail. The question, before your ...
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