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Pending pointless edit proposals blocking real edits [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Do we need a 'reject and improve' button'? As it is today, a pending edit will block all other edits until it is either rejected or approved. The answer to this ...
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Unable to edit posts with rejected/approved edits [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Do we need a 'reject and improve' button? The following seems like a regression of Unable to edit posts with pending edits: A post has a pending edit which I rejected....
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange

This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network. It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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An alert to serial minor edits

I have noticed that this user, Jamie Hutton is doing a massive set of typo-correction edit suggestions. This is pushing the review queue right up (over 70 and over 90 at different points today) and ...
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Too Minor rejection reason needs either to be reworded or removed

At the moment the reviewers are split into two camps, one is accepting minor edits, the others don't. But first, let's start with some basics: too minor This edit is too minor; suggested edits ...
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Should tiny edits be accepted or rejected in review?

I regularly review suggested edits on the review page. One common situation is that a user will propose a tiny edit, like capitalising a single letter, or removing only the salutation from a post. In ...
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Suggested Edits add "Thanks in Advance"

This user: https://stackoverflow.com/users/750613/nik has been adding "Thanks" or "Thanks in Advance" to the bottom of a question as a suggested edit and titling the change as "improved formatting". ...
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What are the rejection reasons for suggested edits?

In response to: Pending approvals: allow for adding reasons to rejections we will be implementing rejection reasons for suggested edits. This means each time you reject an edit you will be able to ...
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Instant approval of revisions for users with edit privileges

It's not consistent to leave an edit pending for approval (thus not making available for everyone else and locking its state) after a user who has those privileges have given his endorsement. You ...
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Should I approve spelling-and-grammar–only suggested edits?

I've been seeing lots of suggested edits recently that are simple spelling and grammar fixes: I've tended to reject several of these, because they're not really substantial edits. From an old blog ...
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How can we encourage more substantial suggested edits?

Whenever I review the suggested edit queue, there are always a number of trivial edits that only fix one of many issues with the post. As a reviewer, I know that my appropriate course of action ...
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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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Approve suggested edits when only the signature is removed?

When reviewing suggested edits, should I approve them when only the signature is removed. Even though signatures are unwanted, I am inclined to reject these kinds of edits, because they are too minor.
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Anonymous editors in edit queue would produce more objective decisions

Why isn't the edit queue (/review -> suggested edits) anonymous until after a decision has been made? I think that would help make sure that reviewers are objective. I'd wondered about it in the ...
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Gaming the Question/Answer Editing

I'm not around as often as I used to be, and I'm rarely if ever on Meta to know if the subject has been raised, but... My belief is that accounts are attempting to game the edit privilege for rep, ...
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