What can I do (besides a rollback) if I disagree with an edit of my post?

Question

Suppose I consider someone's edit of my post bad or useless.
I do a rollback.
Now I want to draw attention of moderators to the user who did this bad edit.
What should I do in this case?

Update:
Sometimes when I see some users often edit others' posts and their edits are either useless or even bad, I ask the question: What reason are they doing it for? Maybe they get something for it? It looks like there is some incentive for them that I don't know. But if it is, then this incentive doesn't work well and gets these users to do useless and bad edits.

Answer 1

My edit was intended to be helpful. If you didn't like it, then you did the right thing by rolling it back. I'm not sure what else you would like to have happen?

There's more information about community editing in the Help Center.

You can 'ping' an editor in the comments of the post they edited if you want to discuss the edit. (Use @username...; there might not be autocomplete, but the editor is still notified.)

Answer 2

Usually moderators don't need to be informed about a single bad edit. After all if it's your post you can simply roll back the edit.

If there's a pattern of bad edits

• a user is repeatedly editing your post in a way you think makes it significantly worse even after you've rolled back their previous edits
• a user is editing lots of other people's posts in a way you think makes them significantly worse

or the edit has introduced spam links, rudeness or obscenities then yes, moderators need to get involved. Moderators can send messages to users to ask them to stop and suspend them if their problematic behaviour continues.

However you need to take an "assume good faith" attitude to edits because moderators certainly will and if you flag posts where the edit is OK your flag will simply be declined.

Some people don't like their posts being edited but it's a normal part of the process here. People who are usually far more experienced in understanding what makes a good post here will often try to improve your post even though they get very little reward for doing so. Such altruism is to be welcomed rather than condemned.

The edit to this post for instance changes the link text so that it's more readable and we get more context as to what the link is and we certainly don't encourage more bold than is absolutely necessary in posts - i.e. usually none at all is best. So this is a useful edit. Ideally I'd like to see it use markdown numbering and the edit doesn't fix that but overall it's an improvement.

FWIW, if that edit was flagged on the site I moderate, I'd decline the flag. There's nothing here that needs a moderator to step in except perhaps to explain to you why this particular one was generally helpful, as I've tried to do in this answer.