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It is much easier to approve edits — even in great numbers — than it is to reject one or a few edits. If you're going after the Proofreader badge, it's much more economical to just wave through all suggested edits.

• Significant improvements to formatting and highlighting

  The significant is, of course, important here. It suffices to monospace key combinations to get the point across. We don't need kbd unless as part of a more significant edit. This category is for those folks who post log output or code without indentation.

• Significant grammar and spelling corrections

  This is not British English vs. American English (unless that's actually considered an important edit?), but about those posts that can barely be identified as English (halp plx k thx!!!!). We value proper use of language on the site to make content more accessible.

• Made post easier to find

  Adding relevant tags, (also removing irrelevant tags, as they are noise), or adding specific key words, like adding the terms extended attributes to the umpteenth question asking about that @ in ls -l output.

• Removed unnecessary or repeated content

  Hi all! So I was out taking a walk through the park on Sunday and thought about how I want to disable these security dialogs in Windows. Has anybody here ever attempted that? I mean, someone must have been bothered enough by these stupid dialogs to have found a way to disable them? Thanks! Gotta go!

• Added new information

  For example, when the OP added relevant information in a comment to the question or an answer. This could also include original content by the editor. One example for the latter would be this edit, and for the former, I offer this.

• Content corrections

  Users sometimes get their posts wrong. Asking for the wrong thing by associating similar but independent concepts, users posting code while being distracted, etc. This is for posts that are otherwise complete, but just aren't correct.

It is much easier to approve edits — even in great numbers — than it is to reject one or a few edits. If you're going after the Proofreader badge, it's much more economical to just wave through all suggested edits.

• Significant improvements to formatting and highlighting

  The significant is, of course, important here. It suffices to monospace key combinations to get the point across. We don't need kbd unless as part of a more significant edit. This category is for those folks who post log output or code without indentation.

• Significant grammar and spelling corrections

  This is not British English vs. American English (unless that's actually considered an important edit?), but about those posts that can barely be identified as English (halp plx k thx!!!!). We value proper use of language on the site to make content more accessible.

• Made post easier to find

  Adding relevant tags, (also removing irrelevant tags, as they are noise), or adding specific key words, like adding the terms extended attributes to the umpteenth question asking about that @ in ls -l output.

• Removed unnecessary or repeated content

  Hi all! So I was out taking a walk through the park on Sunday and thought about how I want to disable these security dialogs in Windows. Has anybody here ever attempted that? I mean, someone must have been bothered enough by these stupid dialogs to have found a way to disable them? Thanks! Gotta go!

• Added new information

  For example, when the OP added relevant information in a comment to the question or an answer. This could also include original content by the editor. One example for the latter would be this edit, and for the former, I offer this.

• Content corrections

  Users sometimes get their posts wrong. Asking for the wrong thing by associating similar but independent concepts, users posting code while being distracted, etc. This is for posts that are otherwise complete, but just aren't correct.

• Significant improvements to formatting and highlighting

  The significant is, of course, important here. It suffices to monospace key combinations to get the point across. We don't need kbd unless as part of a more significant edit. This category is for those folks who post log output or code without indentation.

• Significant grammar and spelling corrections

  This is not British English vs. American English (unless that's actually considered an important edit?), but about those posts that can barely be identified as English (halp plx k thx!!!!). We value proper use of language on the site to make content more accessible.

• Made post easier to find

  Adding relevant tags, (also removing irrelevant tags, as they are noise), or adding specific key words, like adding the terms extended attributes to the umpteenth question asking about that @ in ls -l output.

• Removed unnecessary or repeated content

  Hi all! So I was out taking a walk through the park on Sunday and thought about how I want to disable these security dialogs in Windows. Has anybody here ever attempted that? I mean, someone must have been bothered enough by these stupid dialogs to have found a way to disable them? Thanks! Gotta go!

• Added new information

  For example, when the OP added relevant information in a comment to the question or an answer. This could also include original content by the editor. One example for the latter would be this edit, and for the former, I offer this.

• Content corrections

  Users sometimes get their posts wrong. Asking for the wrong thing by associating similar but independent concepts, users posting code while being distracted, etc. This is for posts that are otherwise complete, but just aren't correct.

• Significant improvements to formatting and highlighting

  The significant is, of course, important here. It suffices to monospace key combinations to get the point across. We don't need kbd unless as part of a more significant edit. This category is for those folks who post log output or code without indentation.

• Significant grammar and spelling corrections

  This is not British English vs. American English (unless that's actually considered an important edit?), but about those posts that can barely be identified as English (halp plx k thx!!!!). We value proper use of language on the site to make content more accessible.

• Made post easier to find

  Adding relevant tags, (also removing irrelevant tags, as they are noise), or adding specific key words, like adding the terms extended attributes to the umpteenth question asking about that @ in ls -l output.

• Removed unnecessary or repeated content

  Hi all! So I was out taking a walk through the park on Sunday and thought about how I want to disable these security dialogs in Windows. Has anybody here ever attempted that? I mean, someone must have been bothered enough by these stupid dialogs to have found a way to disable them? Thanks! Gotta go!

• Added new information

  For example, when the OP added relevant information in a comment to the question or an answer. This could also include original content by the editor. One example for the latter would be this edit, and for the former, I offer this.

• Content corrections

  Users sometimes get their posts wrong. Asking for the wrong thing by associating similar but independent concepts, users posting code while being distracted, etc. This is for posts that are otherwise complete, but just aren't correct.