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Given that how few rejected edits there are, would this really be a problem? Isn't downvoting and closing the same? How else can users know they did something wrong?
– slhck
Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 18:17
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@slhck While most edits are approved I think 29,000 rejected edits is still a lot
– Some Helpful Commenter
Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 18:32
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Exactly. People who care have access to the information to learn from the outcome of their suggestions (though maybe that should be made more readily available), but shoving it in their face at every turn will just punish them for (usually) trying to help. Not to mention the fact that any proposal that causes that annoying bar to appear more often is inherently evil.
– Tim Stone
Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 19:36
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Look, man, you're going to be gone in a week anyways. Now is the perfect time to pull this sort of stunt. Next week, waffles can just shrug and say "Look, that was all Jeff, and we don't know where he put the keys, so we can't undo it right now... we'll get back to you."
– Pops
Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 19:36
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@slhck I am not objecting to the desire to educate, merely the mechanism that was proposed.
– Jeff Atwood
Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 20:00
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I can understand that notifications shouldn't be too much "in your face", but maybe edit decisions could be summarized, like the "You have X favorite changes" notification bar, and the tab in the profile could say "accepted" or "rejected" instead of "suggested", including the blue highlighted number in the tab name.
– slhck
Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 21:06
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Okay, for a serious comment: I can get on board with the philosophy here, but the problem is that the current system doesn't match the "quietly, via a backchannel" setup. Edit suggestors aren't being notified at all of what happens to their work, and it's not even easy for the ones who have initiative to hunt that information down.
– Pops
Commented May 4, 2012 at 18:52
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I disagree. If you have a rejected edit, you need to know that it has been rejected so that in the future, you can make better edits.
– daviesgeek
Commented May 29, 2012 at 16:07
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No need for the banner anymore. The new notifications are much less obtrusive. Besides, it's not much different from post edit announcements: "What you posted was wrong or incomplete. Fortunately, someone else fixed it for you."
– Daniel Beck
Commented Jun 10, 2012 at 12:16
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Jeff, that is a cultural thing. In some countries/cultures, it is expected you say your critique straight up, not hide it behind pleasantries. In this instance, I think the need for "training" outweighs the need for "don't tell me I'm doing something wrong".
– Raphael
Commented Jun 17, 2012 at 10:17
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This user is a perfect example for someone who wants to be told what the review results of his edits are. He was banned from editing for a week because he never noticed his edits got rejected, so he had no (accessible) way to actually learn what a good edit is.
– Daniel Beck
Commented Jun 24, 2012 at 10:35
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As for "in your face": another oblivious user, who's feeling a bit embarrassed not knowing they were doing things wrong, and then being explained in public when asking about the disabled edit link...
– Arjan
Commented Jul 25, 2012 at 11:26
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@Jeff right now people wonder where their edit disappeared - I am sure it happens to great many they just don't bother to go asking in Meta. So we do need some mechanism to tell the user what happened to his/her suggested edit, don't you think?
– Shadow Wizard
Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 12:47
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I would also like to be notified when my edits are rejected. Make it an option then, if you think it's rude or whatever to notify everyone.
– Dan Dascalescu
Commented Nov 5, 2012 at 0:01
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Don't agree (respectfully). A "silent rejection" as I have experienced recently is more of a slap-in-the-face.
– Sabuncu
Commented Jul 22, 2013 at 10:19

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