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I see that you tried again, and your suggestion was approved this time.
But, please, when you see a non-inlined image like
[enter image description here][1]
don’t change it to
change it to[![image description][1]][1]
so a user can click on the image displayed in the Super User page
and go directly to the image on i.stack....
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Imagine how bad Wikipedia would be if original article authors always rejected or rolled back helpful, correct edits made by contributors. It's amusing but sad to think of an equivalent to SE answers on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese/User1'sPointOfViewOnCheese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese/User2'sPointOfViewOnCheese
...
https://en....
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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 strongly suggest that such edits are treated the same as any other edit, and you consider the quality and/or appropriateness of the edits, whether they're useful ...
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No, not cool. Such an extensive edit should have been its own answer, not an edit. The suggested edit should have been rejected.
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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 suggest OP request a merge themselves just to ensure they're aware of it. There's been cases of folks creating what seemed like a endless stream of new unregistered ...
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As suggested by fixer1234 in the comments here, it appears that the original answerer wanted to make a direct quotation of his source without editing or improving it at all. I for one can see the value of improving on content we pull from external sources, and just leaving the external source there as a place for folks to go if they want to see the original (...
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I'm pretty sure this is why your edit was rejected:
To explain a little further, I was confused that This edit introduces spam, defaces the post in some way, or is otherwise inappropriate. was chosen twice for the rejection reason. This reason is usually only picked when actual spam (or something that looks like spam) is introduced to the post or it is ...
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Check out the official FAQ on "how do suggested edits work," specifically the section on "What does the "Improve" button do."
When the reviewer marks the edit as helpful:
The change history records the suggested edit and the improved edit as separate events.
The original editor still gets +2 reputation for their suggestion.
When the ...
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Reject them.
As Ramhound pointed out, a new solution should be a new answer. Editing an existing answer to add an alternative solution, however good or correct it may be, is not acceptable.
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Flagging
Don't flag answers as "not an answer" unless they don't attempt to answer the question at all. If an answer post at least tries to answer the question, don't flag it, even if it is factually incorrect. Instead, you should downvote the answer.
The "very low quality" flag should be reserved for genuinely unsalvagsable posts. If an answer can be made ...
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Spelling and grammar edits are always useful and should be encouraged, not rejected for not being more substantive. If someone is willing to take the time to make the content here more readable, we shouldn't throw away their effort just because there is more that could have been done to the post.
I do understand the impulse of the reviewer. Because low-rep ...
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Very minor edits are often frowned upon because they don't do "enough", but as long as they improve the post somewhat, I never understood why they are problematic for anything but the most significant posts on the site.
The biggest gripe people tend to have is when a post is riddled with severe problems, and someone takes time to submit an edit suggestion, ...
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yes, there's no harm in approving them provided they link to the official project sites
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Yes they can. That's the way that this system was intended.
However, if you feel that an edit was made to your post that was invalid, you can either roll it back, or flag it for moderator attention.
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Sometimes someone will post a code snippet with no explanation or a link to something that's useful with nothing else. These answers are useful if expanded upon. Depending on the length of the original and the length of the additional information, this could easily exceed 50% increase in character count. 85% or 90% isn't unheard of for justifiable edits.
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Probably a few reasons. The reasons why I would have rejected them are, in no particular order:
The edits were trivial and neither clarified nor substantively improved the answers
The paragraphs you edited were not long enough to warrant breaking into two parts
Numbered lists work best as a list of steps to follow. You used them as little more than ...
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At the moment, you've basically got to click through every suggested edit you have to find out whether it was rejected or accepted. Yes, you have to do that.
What I'd love to see is this, which would show the "approved" or "rejected" right in your profile:
But no, they haven't fixed this yet, and given the number of times me and others have asked they won'...
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To appeal a rejected edit, you could come to Meta, or come to Super User chat and ask in Root Access or Ask a Super User Moderator for advice.
Note that it's of course hard to know whether an edit of yours has been rejected or not. I once proposed to have a notification feature implemented, but Stack Exchange rejected that proposal.
I'd say your edit was ...
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Here are some downsides I see to this:
Although this would stop some spam, there are still ways around it.
The point of the review process is to filter out stuff like this, it showing up in the review que doesn't hurt.
There is always a chance that it will block a good edit
It wouldn't be very had to make an account to spam like this
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Did you include a detailed explanation of your edit? In the suggested edit review queue, you can't see the comments on a post. Someone reviewing your proposed change is basically doing it in a vacuum; your "obvious" attempt to improve the post may not be so obvious.
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A few points:
On SE, we don't have anything against "anonymous users". We believe that users' contributions should be accepted optimistically, unless we have a specific reason to suspect a particular user of bad behavior. Since anonymous users are anonymous, we can't expect or anticipate anything of their behavior. Some people may think this gives them an ...
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Oliver reached out to me to let me know about the discussion here. Really appreciate that, thanks!
OK, so it probably helps to tell the whole story so you see where I'm coming from. Apologize for the length…
I work on the Chrome team so I wanted to help communicate about this change. It's a big and contentious change. I myself don't like it and apparently ...
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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 something with this
situation?
You are applying way too much psychology here. Honestly who cares? If the edits are good, approve them. If you disagree with them, ...
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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 edit and correct the answer if you can.
Since our editing guidelines say that you should keep edits substantial, but not radically change the meaning of a ...
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The edit suggestion changes c:\\foo.txt to c:\\test1\\foo.txt to demonstrate that directories need to have their backslashes escaped as well. The reviewers likely thought that it was already clear that all backslashes, regardless of what they're delimiting, have to be doubled up to be escaped. In that light, the edit looked like it was just using a different ...
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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, ...
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Let's look at those individually:
Your first edit was okay, but you missed capitalizing abbreviations like "hdmi" and "dvi". It wasn't bad, but in general you should try to fix all issues with a post, and make very thorough edits. The capitalization in the title was also mixed – you began with Title Case, and ended with sentence case.
Your second edit was ...
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People can edit your posts, but they aren't automatically trusted to do so.
You need 2000 reputation to be allowed to edit questions and answers without review.
During review, one of the reasons to reject a pending edit is:
This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning or intent of the post would be lost.
So, people who would ...
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Is clicking approve and requiring a 2nd users intervention to also approve if I am a 2k user a bug or a feature?
Yes, indeed. We require two reviewers to agree on a suggested edit. This is mostly to prevent users from blindly approving everything they see in the suggested edit queue—wouldn't be the first time this happened. It depends on the quality of ...
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While I agree with Oliver, editing an answer to give a small variation of an existing solution might be acceptable. For example, if I answer a bash question and my solution does not deal with file name with spaces, I would consider an edit that adds a similar approach that can deal with spaces correct.
If the new solution is completely different, then yes, ...
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