Early today I posted this question. Very shortly afterwards, the question was edited, with a large number of minor, totally unneeded edits made:
None of them make the question any easier to understand or read, arguably, some make it more difficult. The user is not new, with over 6K rep on the meta site. I rolled back these edits and left a comment for the editor to avoid making these edits. However this left me thinking about what to do with such edits? Flagging the question to moderators seems too excessive to me.
UPDATE: within minutes of me rolling back those edits, another 6.9K rep user made more minor edits:
What should I do about it?
some make it more difficult
-> could you explain which changes made your question harder to read or understand? While generally I agree that edits too minor can be a nuisance, I don't think there's necessarily anything bad with minor cleanup that includes very obvious corrections and maybe other things that wouldn't have been crucial on their own, so long as none of the changes actually change the meaning.StackOverflow
(incorrect) toStack Overflow
(correct) is probably not the path you want to go down. You're going to get the question flagged, locked, and maybe worse.Stackoverflow
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