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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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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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Why isn't the reputation gained for editing a tag wiki refunded if the tag is burned?
I suggested a tag excerpt edit that got approved. But later, the tag was burned and the wiki "orphaned". Instead of getting a -2 in my reputation, the rep stayed and the link led to a 404 ...
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Number formatting when editing tag wiki with less than 20000 reputation
When editing a tag wiki, the following box is displayed.
Can a comma be added so this reads 20,000 reputation instead of 20000 reputation?
Note: whatever separator is being used on the privileges ...
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Better promoting +2 rep for editing
Is there a way that the +2 editing bonus's existence could be better promoted to new users? This could be especially helpful for students or others new to the field on the more technical sites, where ...
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Don't revert reputation from suggested edits when reviewer's account is deleted
I noticed something strange in the reputation of one of my accounts today:
Never saw "reverted" event before, so went to one of the suggested edits and realized what happened: the user who ...
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Thank editors by rewarding +2 or +5 rep
Would it be feasible and possible to have a 'Thank' button to thank editors to your question. When the OP 'thanks' an editor, the editor will get +2 or +5 rep from the OP.
This would recognise the ...
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Could we restrict reputation bonus for edits to a minimum character length, and remove the edit size restriction?
In Austio's response to this question, it needs a single character edit which is critical to the response (@user should be @users). However, due to the edit length restriction, I could not make the ...
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Without reputation award, would users still make minor edits?
TL;DR: To reduce the volume of edits requiring review, what if we allowed users to opt-out of the reputation gain for minor edits, similar to how the "community wiki" feature works? Alternatively, ...
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Change the way that self accepting suggested edits works
This isn't the first time I've seen this, in fact it always seems to result in the same outcome: multiple users appear, one posts a bad post, the other edits it until they've got enough reputation to ...
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Reputation feed behaviour after suggested edit post is removed - User removed vs Post removed
I recently lost 2 points of rep, with the reason "User was removed". It's likely that this is because I had received 2 points for a suggested edit, and then lost it when the user and the user's posts ...
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Don't award reputation for tag edits [duplicate]
Now that the tag editing privilege has been removed, tag edits go through the Suggested Edits queue.
The problem is that users are suggesting edits that are pure tag edits. I'm sure most are in good ...
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No reputation for continued tag edits
A certain user just got 42 reputation from removing the windows-ribbon-framework from a bunch of questions and doing nothing else. This seems very wrong, because the questions had other things wrong ...
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Do we still need Community Wiki now that we have "suggested edits"? [duplicate]
In my opinion, auto-conversion to community wiki status has a nasty habit of ruining great posts on Stack Overflow. You pose an interesting question, and people post a bunch of copycat answers hoping ...
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Rolling back edit on your own post should revoke suggested edit rep [duplicate]
When an edit is suggested to one of your posts you get a notification asking you to review it which gives you the option to reject the review. The problem is that many suggested edits get approved ...
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