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    ... especially given the time span between suggesting and having it accepted. On smaller sites than SO, this can be a while. Even on SU, I have seen suggested edits for 1+ hours in the queue.
    – Daniel Beck
    Commented Jan 29, 2012 at 14:43
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    I'm not sure how related this is, but I'd also be keen to get feedback on which of my suggested edit votes were overruled (I guess this is a unique problem for Stack Overflow as all(?) the other sites only require 1 vote, where as SO requires 2). Feedback on both sides lets a) the reviewers how to vote correctly, and b) the editors how to edit correctly.
    – Matt
    Commented Jan 29, 2012 at 14:58
  • @DanielBeck Last time I checked there was one sitting for 13 hours waiting to be accepted or rejected.
    – slhck
    Commented Jan 29, 2012 at 15:17
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    If this gets implemented, the same needs to be done for declined flags.
    – BoltClock's a Unicorn
    Commented Jan 29, 2012 at 18:59
  • @BoltClock'saUnicorn Now that you say it, that actually make sense and add to some consistency.
    – slhck
    Commented Jan 29, 2012 at 19:05
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    Do we already have some sort of protection against repeated identical suggested edits? That's the one thing I fear, users will try to do their same edits repeatedly until they get accepted, and then they're in. So if this were introduced, making everybody immediately aware of rejected edits (and possibly flags as suggested by @BoltClock'saUnicorn), we probably should get some sort of "suggested edit spam filter".
    – Daniel Beck
    Commented Jan 29, 2012 at 21:09
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    @Daniel: Well, they're suggested edit still exists, just declined. Maybe they could set it up so that new suggested edit != old suggested edit. There's not really a great way of countering this because they could just change a couple spaces that were not changed before to fool it, and we don't want to use substantial difference criterion because it could potentially forbid them from submitting a further suggested edit.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Commented Feb 8, 2012 at 16:57
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    Maximum number of edits and Tag editing limits - Give us a chance seem to indicate that this would be a useful feature
    – Flexo
    Commented Jun 20, 2012 at 16:01
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    Could you mock up "Your edits on [topic] and three others were reviewed, click here to learn more", "Your edit on [topic] was approved, click here to learn more" notifications? Maybe we should just add all of them, both approval and rejections...
    – Daniel Beck
    Commented Jun 24, 2012 at 10:36
  • @Dan I could do that.. However, my primary concern is users who have really done something wrong. It would of course make sense to show both accepted and rejected, I wonder though why nobody's brought that up before..
    – slhck
    Commented Jun 24, 2012 at 12:41
  • How do I upvote this original question, but not the update? The update is really just a link to an answer with a different resolution than the post was requesting? This should have been handled via a comment on that answer and not an update to the original question, since the original question was already considered by so many people.
    – mattgately
    Commented Dec 2, 2016 at 16:30
  • As "edit was rejected" notification message was not implemented (despite to "status-completed"), the new "Add global notifications for rejected edits (No, I don't mean the edit warning prompt)" feature request is available for vote(it is not a duplicate)
    – Michael Freidgeim
    Commented Apr 7, 2019 at 10:59
  • [...] unless they critically checked each suggestion in their profile. I doubt anybody would do this Speak for yourself. - I do this frequently! And I sometimes do it even if my suggested edit was accepted.
    – Henke - Нава́льный П с м
    Commented Mar 9, 2021 at 14:39