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Yes, the anonymous editor often has a better understanding about how the SE network works than regular users, like me.

I like to review those edits as they are more than just grammar and spelling fixes or trivial wiki suggestions that can be approved with just basic sanity checks. Our anonymous friend likes us to venture into the past, reading long, forgotten posts and combine and compare facts from several sources. It takes 6 to 8 weeks to decide to approve, skip or reject.

I also did wonder who it was but as no Normal Human could be that correct and passionate about having posts edited, I settled for it being done by SE staff and when you review wrongly you get insta-banned.

There are valid reasons for even experienced users wanting to have feedback on their actions. Plenty of gold badge holders seek confirmation in chat or comments if they are unsure and some even asked for being able to switch-off binding votes. The same goes for users with edit privilege, their edit is live at the moment the push the button. For most edits that is not a big issue but for some edits a please sanity check my proposal could be welcome.
Another reason could be that they don't want to be associated with those edits, for personal reasons or due to bad experiences from the past. A true believer in community wiki and shared collaboration.

Above all, they waited for someone to bring it up on Meta so they could enjoy the feeling their effort is noticed and mostly appreciated. And the chuckle that their cover is still not blown.

Yes, the anonymous editor often has a better understanding of how the SE network works than regular users, like me.

I like to review those edits as they are more than just grammar and spelling fixes or trivial wiki suggestions that can be approved with just basic sanity checks. Our anonymous friend likes us to venture into the past, reading long, forgotten posts and combine and compare facts from several sources. It takes 6 to 8 weeks to decide to approve, skip or reject.

I also did wonder who it was but as no Normal Human could be that correct and passionate about having posts edited, I settled for it being done by SE staff and when you review wrongly you get insta-banned.

There are valid reasons for even experienced users wanting to have feedback on their actions. Plenty of gold badge holders seek confirmation in chat or comments if they are unsure and some even asked for being able to switch-off binding votes. The same goes for users with edit privilege, their edit is live at the moment they push the button. For most edits that is not a big issue but for some edits a please sanity check my proposal could be welcome.
Another reason could be that they don't want to be associated with those edits, for personal reasons or due to bad experiences from the past. A true believer in community wiki and shared collaboration.

Above all, they waited for someone to bring it up on Meta so they could enjoy the feeling their effort is noticed and mostly appreciated. And the chuckle that their cover is still not blown.

Yes, the anonymous editor often has a better understanding about how the SE network works than regular users, like me.

I like to review those edits as they are more than just grammar and spelling fixes or trivial wiki suggestions that can be approved with just basic sanity checks. Our anonymous friend likes us to venture into the past, reading long, forgotten posts and combine and compare facts from several sources. It takes 6 to 8 minutes to decide to approve, skip or reject.

I also did wonder who it was but as no Normal Human could be that correct and passionate about having posts edited, I settled for it being done by SE staff and when you review wrongly you get insta-banned.

There are valid reasons for even experienced users wanting to have feedback on their actions. Plenty of gold badge holders seek confirmation in chat or comments if they are unsure and some even asked for being able to switch-off binding votes. The same goes for users with edit privilege, their edit is live at the moment the push the button. For most edits that is not a big issue but for some edits a please sanity check my proposal could be welcome.
Another reason could be that they don't want to be associated with those edits, for personal reasons or due to bad experiences from the past. A true believer in community wiki and shared collaboration.

Above all, they waited for someone to bring it up on Meta so they could enjoy the feeling their effort is noticed and mostly appreciated. And the chuckle that their cover is still not blown.

Yes, the anonymous editor often has a better understanding about how the SE network works than regular users, like me.

I like to review those edits as they are more than just grammar and spelling fixes or trivial wiki suggestions that can be approved with just basic sanity checks. Our anonymous friend likes us to venture into the past, reading long, forgotten posts and combine and compare facts from several sources. It takes 6 to 8 weeks to decide to approve, skip or reject.

I also did wonder who it was but as no Normal Human could be that correct and passionate about having posts edited, I settled for it being done by SE staff and when you review wrongly you get insta-banned.

There are valid reasons for even experienced users wanting to have feedback on their actions. Plenty of gold badge holders seek confirmation in chat or comments if they are unsure and some even asked for being able to switch-off binding votes. The same goes for users with edit privilege, their edit is live at the moment the push the button. For most edits that is not a big issue but for some edits a please sanity check my proposal could be welcome.
Another reason could be that they don't want to be associated with those edits, for personal reasons or due to bad experiences from the past. A true believer in community wiki and shared collaboration.

Above all, they waited for someone to bring it up on Meta so they could enjoy the feeling their effort is noticed and mostly appreciated. And the chuckle that their cover is still not blown.

Yes, the anonymous editor has often a better understanding about how the SE network works than regular users, like me.

I like to review those edits as they are more than just grammar and spelling fixes or trivial wiki suggestions that can be approved with some sanity checks. Our anonymous friend likes us to venture into the past, reading long forgotten post, combine and compare facts from several sources. It takes 6 to 8 weeks to decide to approve, skip or reject.

I also did wonder who it was but as no Normal Human could be that correct and passionate about having posts edited, I settled for it being done by SE staff and when you review wrongly you get insta-banned.

There are valid reasons for even experienced users wanting to have feedback on their actions. Plenty of gold badge holders seek confirmation in chat or comments if they are unsure and some even asked for being able to switch-off binding votes. The same goes for users with edit privilege, their edit is live at the moment the push the button. For most edits that is not a big issue but for some edits a please sanity check my proposal could be welcome.
Another reason could be that they don't want to be associated with those edits, for personal reasons or due to bad experiences from the past. A true believer in community wiki and shared collaboration.

Above all they waited for someone to bring it up on Meta so they could enjoy the feeling their effort is noticed and mostly appreciated. And the chuckle that their cover is still not blown.

Yes, the anonymous editor often has a better understanding about how the SE network works than regular users, like me.

I like to review those edits as they are more than just grammar and spelling fixes or trivial wiki suggestions that can be approved with just basic sanity checks. Our anonymous friend likes us to venture into the past, reading long, forgotten posts and combine and compare facts from several sources. It takes 6 to 8 minutes to decide to approve, skip or reject.

I also did wonder who it was but as no Normal Human could be that correct and passionate about having posts edited, I settled for it being done by SE staff and when you review wrongly you get insta-banned.

There are valid reasons for even experienced users wanting to have feedback on their actions. Plenty of gold badge holders seek confirmation in chat or comments if they are unsure and some even asked for being able to switch-off binding votes. The same goes for users with edit privilege, their edit is live at the moment the push the button. For most edits that is not a big issue but for some edits a please sanity check my proposal could be welcome.
Another reason could be that they don't want to be associated with those edits, for personal reasons or due to bad experiences from the past. A true believer in community wiki and shared collaboration.

Above all, they waited for someone to bring it up on Meta so they could enjoy the feeling their effort is noticed and mostly appreciated. And the chuckle that their cover is still not blown.