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How do suggested edits work?
While I've been approving suggested edits, I've seen many times that edit is proposed by an anonymous user. What is meaning of that? Most of time it's invalid.
asked Sep 16, 2012 at 17:17
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Anonymous visitors (anyone not logged in) can also suggest edits.
A lot of the time they misuse that feature to make a comment or ask a question; these edits should be rejected outright.
I suspect you are confusing 'approved' with 'suggested'. Do you have any examples of such suggested edits actually being approved (e.g. accepted by reviewers)? If so, please override the reviewer decisions.
Yes, we sometimes get crap from anonymous users this way, but there are also good contributions that come in this way, that we do not want to turn away. See Do we have stats showing that anonymous edits are helpful?.
Thus, removing the feature for anonymous users has been turned down before, see Prevent suggested edits coming from anonymous users?
answered Sep 16, 2012 at 17:20
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why this option when its i think misuse more thank 95% Commented Sep 16, 2012 at 17:23
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See Prevent suggested edits coming from anonymous users? there are already some more restrictions in place for anonymous users suggesting edits. We do get a lot of good edits from anonymous as well, see Do we have stats showing that anonymous edits are helpful? Commented Sep 16, 2012 at 17:25
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2I'd venture a guess and say that we get just as many crap edits from 1-rep new users as we do from flat-out anonymous users. Commented Sep 16, 2012 at 17:27
Anonymous users are allowed to suggest improvements to posts like any user.
That's why they go up for review. Just reject it and move on. :)
answered Sep 16, 2012 at 17:20
