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19 questions linked to/from A way to "downvote" a suggested edit and affect both the edit suggester and reviewers
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Should 'Hi', 'thanks', taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?
I edit a lot of posts every day. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:
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Should these items be ...
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The current review system encourages fake reviews; some people upvote everything rather than actually fixing problems
I went to a Late Answers review queue that had four items in it and started reviewing the first one by editing it into shape rather heavily.
By the time I was done, someone else had reviewed the ...
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The robo-approvers are killing my will to review edits
Already I have lost all hope of looking at late answers etc. It's just a parade of meh. I can't make any kind of intelligent decision because I can't see the other answers to the question, for ...
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Reject an already-approved suggested edit when rolling it back
The content of this post has been sanitized in response to anonymous feedback that the formatting was making it completely unreadable by assistive technology (AT). I strongly value making content ...
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What can we do to stop bad edits getting accepted?
A worryingly high number of bad suggested edits get accepted. For example:
edits that add bad formatting to random words
edits that break the formatting of a block of code
edits that add wrong tags
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Should questions include "tags" in their titles?
I've seen questions edited to remove the language name from the title. Won't search engines - and folks using search engines - have an easier time finding them if these "tags" are kept as ...
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Is editing posts to only introduce bold emphasis acceptable?
Using the review queue for Suggested Edits I've noticed there's a user editing questions and answers for "better highlights". This is basically making the most relevant words (to the user's ...
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Is anyone monitoring people rejecting good edits or approving bad ones?
Right now I can say "good" or "bad" to a proposed edit at my discretion, but is anyone able to see this decision and moderate it?
I recently saw a good edit that I was going to approve, but when I ...
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Tag wiki edits rejected
I have tried to edit a couple of tag wikis with verbage from the appropriate Linux man page, aka the Linux Programmer's Manual. The edits were rejected due to quoting works without citing the source ...
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Please facilitate undoing the harm from bad suggested edits
I've seen a stream of bad suggested edits recently: they don't improve anything but screw up the formatting. (Examples: 1, 2, 3. Note: if you approved one of these, do feel called out. If you're the ...
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Rolling back carelessly approved edits [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The current review system encourages fake reviews; some people upvote everything rather than actually fixing problems
“Revolving door” reviews are getting out of control
Closely ...
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Mass edits by new users
I recently stumbled across this user in /review who I ended up flagging after a couple days of following for making a massive amount of edits that I felt were "too minor." This post isn't to rant ...
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Resubmitted rejected suggested edits
It seems that when a user’s suggested edit gets rejected they can simply re-suggest it, and given the current state of affairs of the suggested review queue the suggested edit is quite likely to be ...
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Automatically edit out TIA/Thanks In Advance [duplicate]
This is obviously heavily related to this question.
From Jeff's answer, I see that it was decided not to touch "thanks" at that time, but as I have started getting into the review process and I ...
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creating a minimum reject ratio
I understand that this may be quite subjective.
Please direct your attention to Exhibit A. The username has been blurred to use as an example.
You may or may not agree that this edit is too minor. ...
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