How can I notify moderators of incorrect edit rejections?

Question

I'm learning about Meteor and going through Stack Overflow questions.

A number of questions have been closed in April 2012, because Meteor was in its infancy, and the questions seemed off-topic. However, the Meteor team advises using Stack Overflow, and indeed, later questions have been left alone.

Some of these questions had answers that were correct at the time, but are now incorrect (e.g. "Is there a Windows port" - a Windows port was launched in August). A new user may stumble upon these answers, and learn an inaccurate state of matters. I cannot post new, correct, answers, because the questions are closed.

I've attempted to fix these issues; however all my recent edits have been rejected with reasons that immediately appear uninformed (such as This edit introduces spam, defaces the post in some way, or is otherwise inappropriate. - when I linked to the Windows port, or This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning or intent of the post would be lost. - well, duh, the original answer is now wrong).

Please review these edits, and kindly advise the moderators of the situation.

Note: I've read My edit was rejected for incorrect (and seemingly random) reasons. How do I justify and resubmit it without starting a little edit fight?, but I can't resubmit any edits, because I was banned for having too many rejected edits.

Answer 1

Your edits are problematic. Let's take a closer look at them:

• https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/765765

  You are completely changing the answer. I get that your intention is to update it, but why completely remove the old answer? Better yet, why not just post an answer of your own?

• https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/765763

  Same edit, on a different answer to the question, again removing the original answer. Had those two edits been accepted, we'd have two identical answers.

• https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/765761

  Same edit, on a different answer to the question, but this time you didn't completely change the answer (that's something, I guess).

• https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/765746

  No, please don't do that. Edits are supposed to fix posts, and not so much to add information to them. You are adding a tutorial to the answer, but had that edit been accepted it would appear as if the original poster of the answer was recommending the tutorial, and we have absolutely no idea if that's the case. Again, why didn't you post your own answer, or a comment to the question?

• https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/765737

  This one is tricky, the original answer is only a quote from Meteor's FAQ, and since the FAQ was updated, I guess your edit makes some sense. Personally, I'd avoid that edit, and post a comment to the answer informing the answerer that the FAQ was updated and that they should update their answer. Or, I'd go for the cheap rep and post an answer of my own.

In all your edit suggestions you are adding links, that are not spam, but since your edits were very close to each other and mostly incorrect, you can't really blame the reviewers for thinking there was something fishy going on. There isn't any malintent in your edits, obviously, but that doesn't mean they should have been accepted.

Please thoroughly review our editing guidelines, as outlined in the "Edit questions and answers" privilege page. Always respect the original author and avoid changing the original meaning or intent of posts, especially answers. The edit ban is not permanent (afaik), you'll be able to suggest edits again at some point, but please be a little bit more careful with your edits in the future.

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Just a note, since a few of the meteor questions you've been editing are closed and you can't add new answers: If you feel they should be re-opened, flag them for moderation attention and clearly explain why they should be, if not, you can still comment and ask answerers to update their obsolete answers.