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Tagged with feature-request suggested-edits
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Should the "too many pending edits" pop-up be reworded for accuracy (unless rejected edits have no effect on the number pending)?
As per this pop-up, I have maxed out on my pending edits:
For those who cannot read screen images, it says with my emboldenment:
You have too many pending edits. Further edits cannot be submitted ...
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Can there be suggested edit audits that should be approved?
There has been some discussion over the years about the quality of suggested edit audits and the possibility of there being audits where the correct action is approve:
Are there tests of suggested ...
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Does it make sense to be able to unilaterally edit Qs and As but not be able to unilaterally approve edits?
I've just realized that while my current level of site permissions on one of the SE sites allows me to edit other people's questions and answers at will, it does not allow me to unilaterally approve ...
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Allow opting out of review queues notifications
Yes, we should all serve our military duty.
https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues
But for those that aren't interested, we shouldn't need to rely on hacks.
Opting out of ...
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Suggested edits dialog needs a Report button
The Suggested edits dialog needs a fourth button: Reject and report to moderators.
Else after we reject it it might not stay around on our screen for us to figure out how to report it.
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Let's remove spam/offensive edit suggestions from the original poster's inbox as quickly as we can
Some of us have taken it upon ourselves to seek out the worst of what finds its way to Stack Exchange so that the majority of users don't have to see any of that. That's how the spam and rude flags ...
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How can I suggest edits to Stack Overflow Blog posts?
Kevin Henner's An intuitive introduction to text embeddings (2023-11-09) is a very impressive write-up, except for one paragraph near the beginning, which unceremoniously demolishes the analogy that ...
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Accessing the Original Question After Edit Submission on Stack Overflow
I have recently submitted an edit to a question on Stack Overflow. My intention was to review the original question (before the edit was accepted or rejected) for verification purposes. However, I am ...
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Let me do a retroactive edit even if I've already reviewed the pending suggested-edit
Currently, when I click the edit(1) button from the post-menu, it opens up a box that allows me to review the suggested edit. If I've already reviewed the edit elsewhere, such as from the queue itself,...
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Add ability to opt edits into review queue for users who have the edit post privilege for Peer-Review purposes [duplicate]
Below 2000 rep, an edit to a post would go through screening, but having the privilege of having ones edits applied instantly loses the benefits of drawing attention to one's suggestions and makes it ...
user1363124
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Make tabs on the review/suggested-edits page linkable
On a review/suggested-edits page there are 3 tabs:
Inline
Side-by-side
Side-by-side Markdown
Please make them linkable, e.g. via URL hash. Depending on the edit, one view might fit better than the ...
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Blocked from editing due to pending review
Currently a pending edit needs two approvals. I have edit permissions, but review queues are apparently slow today, and I cannot make some necessary edits because a second person needs to approve the ...
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Add back the highlight on the author's name on suggested edit reviews to their own posts, or indicate the author otherwise
In the old UI for the review queues, it used to be that if the author reviewed a suggested edit to their own post, their name would be highlighted:
(Source)
However, this is no longer the case:
This ...
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Opining a successful-edit-count-based two tier suggested edit system
This is a bit of a follow up to the 'answer' here.
From the time editing was first introduced, it's a system that both has been refined, and occasionally has scaled poorly. In general, the mechanics ...
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If you create a tag, you shouldn't get reputation by adding it to questions
There is a mass edit dump into the Suggested Edit review queue in Music.SE, by me. I'm suggesting several edits adding tritone, a tag that I created, to all tritone-related questions I can find. I don'...
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Why is it that a reviewer with full edit privileges cannot single-handedly approve an edit without improving it? [duplicate]
This issue seems to be a universal feature of SE. If a user suggests an edit, two users with access to the review queue are necessary to validate the edit, even if the first reviewer has full edit ...
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New feature to encourage improvement and discourage hasty closing of almost-good questions from new contributors [duplicate]
A new contributor asks a question that, on face value, is poor. Maybe the wording is off topic, or is phrased to solicit opinion, or is a little cloudy or asks too many questions.
If:
the situation ...
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"There are too many pending edits on Stack Overflow" Is there an auto-deletion?
Core considerations are at the bottom if you're short on time.
Is there any sort of auto-deletion of suggested edits after a certain amount of time? It gets pretty annoying to have to wait for ...
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For edit-suggestors with a streak of N approvals, only require one approval for their next suggested edit
Proposal:
If a <2k user's past N suggested edits are all approved ("good edit streak"), make their following suggested edits only require one approval.
For rejections, I can't think of a ...
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Using keyboard shortcut E silently fails if there's a pending suggested edit
On Q&A pages, using the keyboard shortcut E opens the post editor (either inline if you have full edit privileges, or in a new page).
However, this fails if there's a pending suggested edit; in ...
GlorfindelMod
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Add "improve and reopen/leave closed" options to the question edit queue
Whenever a significant edit is made to a closed question, the editor can choose to let it enter the reopen queue (with the "This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should be ...
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Give back the ability to indicate that a suggested edit is not helpful when improving
Prior to 2014, the ways by which a reviewer of a suggested edit could apply another edit when reviewing were different. The "Reject and Edit" option didn't exist, and the only option was to &...
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Reword the error message for a full suggested edit queue, as many users are getting confused with its current wording
The current message for a full suggested edits queue (where lots of people have suggested edits and the overall queue of pending edits from anyone is full) is:
Suggested edit queue is full
This ...
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Approved edit to answer or question should generate an email notification, by default
On Ethereum Stack Exchange, I recently proposed an edit to an answer. Since I don't have enough reputation there yet, that edit needed approval. My edit was approved two days later, and I got no email ...
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Improve wording of banner shown after reviewing a suggested edit on one of your own posts
If you've reviewed a suggested edit on one of your own posts, you get a special banner since this feature request was implemented (emphasis mine):
You voted on this suggested edit to your post as ...
GlorfindelMod
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Show suggested edits in Markdown diff mode when something inside a spoiler is changed
I just encountered this suggested edit which states
added some periods; rewording
It opens in the side-by-side view, which only shows the change in the non-spoiler part of the edit:
It would be ...
GlorfindelMod
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It should be possible to make edits after casting a reopen vote not count toward the reopen review
When submitting an edit after casting a reopen vote, the checkbox "This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should be considered for reopening" can't be unchecked:
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Can I dim the top bar?
The color changes to the top bar now make it SCREAM AT THE USER .. as if it contained neon icons. All the icons are an eye magnet with the dark background.
It's not so bad on Stack Exchange sites ...
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In the notification from when our suggested tag wiki edit got approved, include the name of the tag [duplicate]
Currently, when your edit to a post is approved, you'll get a notification in your achievements tab that displays a "+2" followed by the title of the post. For example:
+2 The Many Memes of ...
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First answers review queue - Edit queue is full at the moment
I have recently reached the possibility of using the "review queues". Often and willingly I try to help the community of Stack Overflow as I can, focusing mainly on the "first questions&...
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