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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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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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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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"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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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 ...
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Is it time to recalibrate the pending suggested edit limit?
I've recently decided to start rep farming trying to earn the archaeologist badge cleaning up posts in Ask Ubuntu where I am a low-repper.
Because each of my suggested edits require multi-user ...
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Should we prevent "Improve this Question" from appearing when a user has 200 reputation on another site?
When a user gains 200 reputation on any site, the association bonus applies as soon as they join the site. However before they join, they are treated as a 1 rep user. This means that "Improve ...
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The "mostly code" warning should say "this post" instead of "your post" when editing someone else's post
While editing someone's post on Stack Overflow, I came across this message when OP's post was mostly code:
It looks like your post is mostly code; please add some more details.
But.. this isn't my ...
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"Improve edit" should not copy the edit summary from the suggested edit [duplicate]
When you click the "Improve edit" button when reviewing a suggested edit, your edit will be applied as a separate edit on top of the suggested edit, which will be approved. The edit summary ...
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Changes to a suggested edit between approvals/rejections should reset any votes on it
On smaller sites it is possible for suggested edits to sit in the review queues for very long, so there is scope for manipulating the suggested edits after only one review has come in but before it ...
user313042
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Increase the default edit queue size (currently it is only 40)
It's annoying to have the error message
The edit queue is full at the moment - try again in a few minutes!
when trying to save some edit. Could the default edit queue be increased?
As Glorfindel ...
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Notify me that the edit queue is full before I suggest an edit
I have been editing an answer on Stack Overflow, with some considerable amount of effort, and when I hit on Save Edits, the edit gets rejected with the following error. I got to know the meaning of ...
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"Rejected" suggested edit as "This edit conflicted with a subsequent edit" - show "dismissed" instead of "rejected" [duplicate]
I am going to make a "traffic-light" diagram of the final result status of the suggested edits:
Red (Bad) edits:
Reject
Reject and Edit
Yellow (Neutral) edits:
Reject as "this edit conflicted ...
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While editing a question, why isn't the question locked for other editing attemps?
After the numerous downvotes I have to say first that this special case occurs for users with (Rep >= 500) and (Rep < 2000). Although this is a special case it could be a "first experience" in ...
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New users should not be able to VOTE to accept / reject edits
Currently, new users are able to see PENDING edits on their own questions. They can also accept or reject this edit directly withouth the need to VOTE.
For new users there is more possibility that ...
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