TL;DR: It was discovered on Gaming that I cannot suggest edits on a closed question. I can edit open posts and >2k rep users can edit the closed post.
Is the fact that I am unable to suggest edits on a closed question by design or a bug?
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Sign up to join this communityTL;DR: It was discovered on Gaming that I cannot suggest edits on a closed question. I can edit open posts and >2k rep users can edit the closed post.
Is the fact that I am unable to suggest edits on a closed question by design or a bug?
I just pushed a change that allows this.
This was by-design however it seems people dislike this design. I do want us to allow people to clean up tags on old closed questions.
It's really frustrating on the sites that I'm not 2k, to see closed questions that need the tags changed and not being able to. Some of them were migrated from other sites, and have tags that don't even exist on the site they were migrated to.
Please enable suggested edits on any question that a user can see.
Here's a sample question on Super User that should have the microsoft-excel (yeh, I know it should be excel, but Super User did it differently), but a user who couldn't edit tags couldn't do anything about it. This isn't end-of-the-world stuff, but for those of us who like to clean things up, it's frustrating.