What happens when a suggested edit is ignored/skipped?   Is it thrown out of the queue and how much time does it take to get out of the suggested edit Queue?
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When clicking &quot;edit&quot; I see:  Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed. We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.  Like:     Likewise, when I am not logged in, clicking &quot;improve this question&quot; or &quot;improve this answer&quot; shows:  You are not . Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is .  And when I click 'Save', I get:  Thanks for submitting an edit. It is only visible to you until it's been approved by trusted community members  Like:     Who can suggest an edit? Where do suggested edits go? Who can vote on a suggested edit? How do suggested edits get reviewed? Can I earn reputation? What about abuse or bad edits? Sometimes the Community user approves or rejects my edit. Why is that? When can I not suggest an edit? Is there a minimum change requirement for a suggested edit? How do I check my suggested edit history? I disagree with the reasons why my suggested edit was rejected. What can I do? How do I know whether there are edits waiting for review? Someone suggested an edit to my own post, and the reviewers took the wrong action. What can I do? Are tag wikis included in this scheme? What do the &quot;Improve Edit&quot; and &quot;Reject and Edit&quot; buttons do? Why are apparently valid links to rejected edits resulting in 404 errors?   For more information about editing, see &quot;&quot; in the .
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I accidentally clicked reject on the suggested edit on this question(). I can't find the button to change it to Approve?
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Contradicting Instructions While going through the suggested edits review queue, one sometimes stumbles upon partially useful edits like . Trying to follow the instructions listed in the descriptions doesn't lead to a conclusive answer. Considering our example:   Approve edits that clearly improve the post ↳ No, not *clearly* Improve Edit when you can make additional improvements to the post ↳ I most definitively can Reject and Edit to replace an ineffective edit with your own substantive changes ↳ It is ineffective in the sense that it made the post worse overall (imho) Reject edits that fail to improve the post or that make it worse ↳ Like the last option: yes Skip if you are not sure and want to go to the next suggested edit ↳ Well, yes. But that is really why I am here, asking this question   Reasoning about the remaining Choices This leaves us with three choices: Improve Edit, Reject and Edit and Reject (the last one slightly modified):  Improve Edit  + Acknowledges that some things in the edit where correct - Learning effect for author might vanish, as the improvement might get overlooked - Can't leave a custom message for edit author (except in comments, which pollutes the thread) - Doesn't trigger the system which &quot;punishes&quot; users who repeatedly have their edits rejected - Rewards the edit author with reputation for a poor edit   Reject and Edit  + Clearly shows the author that there were problems with the edit - Still can't leave a custom message explaining the problems of the original post. - One has to partially redo parts of the edit that have just been rejected, which might feel unjust to the original editor   Reject with a custom note and come back immediately to make a good Edit  + Clearly shows the author that there were problems with the edit + Possibility to leave an explanation as to what was wrong with the edit - One still has to redo parts of the edit that has just been rejected - Seems to be a weird workaround for Reject and Edit   Something else?   Each of the three options come with their distinct advantages/disadvantages making it non trivial to decide which one to pick.  Or does the answer simply depend on the quality of the edit? Like:  Improve Edit for subjectively slightly positive edits Reject and Edit (Or Reject and Edit) for subjectively slightly negative edits
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First time I've got the following message on SO:     Too many of your edits were rejected,   try again in 7 days.   Although, I have made ~50 accepted edits this day.  I'm sure that should outweigh the ~5 rejected edits, right?    My suggestion:  bool allowEdit(USER u) {     if(u.rejected * 5 &gt; u.accepted)         return(false);     else         return(true); }   Think of it this way: if I do a 1000 accepted edits, and mess up on 5 [rejected], does that mean I should get banned for 7 days?    Hmmm... There seems to be a bug; the message only appears when clicking edit from review.  But otherwise, I can't edit , even when going to it from the homepage.
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I found some questions that are not very well-worded, and I want to clarify them. So, I went, and edited one of the questions.  As I have poor short-term memory, after editing, I wondered what I have edited.  I cannot find any easy way to see the original version, or a diff.  Of course, I could just click "Back" button to see the question, but I risk losing my edit (in case I just happen to navigate away and lost the "Next" button.) It is inconvenient too. I wish I could make a comparison to ensure the original meaning remains unchanged.  Did I miss anything? I looked around and found , but I cannot just submit the (suggested) edit, which defeats the point that I want to review my edit before submitting/suggesting.  It shows the original question when editing answers, but not editing questions themselves.    In short, may the edit question page shows the original, or a link to it? (I don't find it, I do not have edit privilege if that matters.)  This is what I have, can anyone point out how to access the original question?
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EDIT:  It seems that I've also had edits that stacked well, so I'm not sure if I had a timing problem, or was just delusional.  The one thing that can be fixed, that I'll turn this question into, is a feature request so that when I go to re-edit (either within the 5-minute grace period, or before a suggested edit is approved), it brings up the old edit summary text.  Right now, it brings up a blank edit summary, and this replaced the first one I did.  This isn't really intuitive, and even knowing that's what it's doing, I still forget to put everything in.  Original Question:  It has happened a few times now, when on a site where I don't have edit privileges, that I make an edit.  I then see that the edit didn't work quite right, so I go back in to re-edit it.  This creates a brand new edit review, with an additional useless summary. How about we have the same grace period to re-edit your up-for-review edit, as there is for a normal edit? Of course, it wouldn't be possible once it's been approved.
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We know that Stack Overflow has a suggested edit queue, visible to the users who have the  privilege. Someone said the queue has a fixed size.  What's the fixed size of the suggested edit queue?  Is it often that the queue gets filled up and users can no longer suggest edits?
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I recently made it past the 2k reputation border on Stack Overflow and started to review suggested edits. In some cases I am not sure about whether an edit should be approved or rejected and thus I Skip the review.  Now I would like to see the outcome of the review, to be able to learn for future reviews, because there are several factors that allow to judge a review quite fairly:   If the suggestion has been approved and at least two approvers have a high approval rate and almost no rejects the result could be a robo-approval. If the suggestion has been approved and at least two approvers have a balanced approval rate with a healthy amount of rejects the result is most likely a valid one. If the suggestion has been rejected the result is most likely a valid one.   Is there a simple possibility to "review" (in the meaning of "take a second look") suggested edits that have been skipped by myself?  If not, could that be added to the "review"-list on the "activity"-tab on the profile-page, maybe combined with a CheckBox so that listing the skipped reviews is optional?  EDIT: After reviewing some of my suggested edit reviews, I have a suggestion to add to this feature request. In the review overview on my profile page, I would like an option to see whether the final result of the review differed from my vote - because that are those reviews where I probably was wrong.
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Why does the Community user sometimes approve or reject edits? How does a machine know if my edit is valid? What does it mean if my edit was rejected by Community?     See also:
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I was in the first posts review queue and chanced on a post with a suggested edit. (Note: I have enough reputation to review suggested edits.) I clicked on “edit (1)” and was taken into the suggested edits queue. When I approved the suggested edit, I was taken to the next suggested edit, and so on until there were no more suggestions (“There are no items for you to review.”, still in the suggested edits queue). In this situation, I think it would make more sense if I was brought back to that post I was working on in the first posts queue, as soon as I acted on its suggested edit. Alternatively, the suggested edit should be shown in the same kind of pop-up as on a question thread page. The same goes for other queues (late answers, low quality, etc.).
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When I went to the review overview on Meta on 08.01.2015, 19:16, it listed two open items in the suggested-edits queue, however when I clicked on the queue, I was told that the queue had been cleared. When I went back to the review overview, however, the edits were there again.  Since the icons for recent reviews had not moved, I suppose that these were still the same two items waiting for review, and since phenomenon lasted for half an hour now, I would rule out  or  to be the reason for this.  After a while, the phenomenon ceased, with one new reviewer popping up in the icon list of recent reviewers.  I had not performed or skipped any suggested-edit review from the queue at that point.    A similar phenomenon occurred for several hours up to 11.04.2015, 11:05: The review overview showed two suggested edits and when I went to the suggested-edits queue, it was cleared. Sometimes, edits that I could review appeared, but two phantom edits remained.
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I like the addition of the "Improve" button in the review edits page. However, sometimes I only think of improving a post after choosing to accept/reject. Currently there is no way to do this other than waiting for the edit to be accepted/rejected and when there are &lt;5 edits in the queue this can take a while.  Is there a workaround for this, or can this be added?
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When viewing an answer that already has a suggested edit on it, I get the option to edit it via the app. After typing bunch of text and submitting, I get a message saying that I can't suggest edits, and can't actually submit the edit.  In the desktop version, the "edit" link is greyed out. Can I get that in the Android App too? This happens too often for me.  This applies to editing answers only.
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Issue 1: I find it a bit irritating that when I click the Improve button and further edit it, even if I mark it as helpful, only Community takes the credit for the approval. I know the topic itself will contain the link to the suggested edit, but my activity history only says that I made an edit, and not approved a suggested edit. The same holds true for marking one as unhelpful. The activity history should say I rejected an edit, and then made an additional edit. I know it's not often, but sometimes I do try to go back to a suggested edit I've rejected, but when I improved and rejected, it's not traceable for me as it doesn't show in my history or in the question's revision history. So if I don't remember what user suggested it, it's lost to me.  This issue also plagues the  which are awarded for approving and rejecting suggested edits, which essentially you have done, you're just not receiving credit for it. I suggest that when I mark an edit as helpful or not helpful, both me and Community be listed as the approvers or rejecters, unless another user is already listed in the appropriate place.  Update: Here is  of the confusion this causes.  Update 2: Also, when improving a post and marking it as "not helpful", it would be nice to be able to  along with it.    Issue 2: Expanding off the idea that users need more notice for suggested edits that get rejected, the activity history page is much too useless when it comes to listing the suggested edits a user has made. Literally all it does is list them. A user still has to click through to each one in order to find out if it was approved or rejected, or even if it's still pending. Take, for example, this screen shot of the suggested edit history:    Is it really necessary to say I suggested a suggested edit? Really? Of course I suggested it, it's a suggested edit. This isn't !  A good way to fix this would be to change the second "suggested" word into one of: pending, approved, or rejected. This would be a quick way to tell which edits have been approved or rejected and which ones are still pending. Users would be able to target out rejected edits and review them for the reasons. Something like this:
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I think I found a bug on Stack Overflow, would like to have feedback if it is, so you can eventually fix it!  If I go on my personal profile in SO on the activity tab and select the suggestion button (in order to see all edits I have suggested) I see 19 entries:    However, if I select one of the suggested edits and follow the link I see in my Editor Stats that I actually have 20 edit suggestions, and so it looks as if one went lost.    What's going on?  Which stat is correct? (Don't know if it's of any use but I remember doing 20...)  EDIT:  new proof of bug added, if I go on my review section in the lateral tab I'll see this recapitulation, which goes against editor stats
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There are numerous posts on meta about editing questions with    Thank you. Thanks in advance Thank you, Sean Please help me!! im such a noob sorry for takin ur time   and many of them seem to conflict each other.  In my opinion, these edits are not too minor, even if that is the only thing wrong with the post. We shouldn't have a conditional policy "If there's nothing else worth editing, it's better to leave it alone" because then it sets an example to new users that it is OK to add such lines to their posts, and propagates confusion about what edits to allow and reject. I do agree if the post needs help in other areas, then simply removing "thanks" is too minor.  There seems to be a lot of confusion about whether these edits are acceptable, because I am continually rejected when making such edits. Of course, I edit the rest of the post if it needs it, but if the post is otherwise acceptable in its current form, then that is the only edit I make.  There needs to be some concrete and clear answer as to when these edits are acceptable.   See also:   My conflicting and confused experiences:           Note also: There are even scripts implemented to get rid of this garbage, but they are not perfect, and editors should be able to finish the job.
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I was reviewing a  and decided that while the edit was incorrect, there were things to improve about the post. So I clicked “Improve” and set about my business. When I tried to submit my edit, I got the following error message, telling me that the post had been edited in the meantime by the suggester:  User already edited the body of this post; your edit must be more substantive to override the current edit.  When I tried later on a tag wiki, I got the altogether unhelpful indication that “an error has occurred”, and again no way to do anything but cancel and lose my work. But refreshing the page brought me to the suggested edit page, showing the suggested edit as approved, with no trace of my editing. (Fortunately I'd saved my text on the side!) With a , I was marked as having reviewed the suggestion, with the indication “edit” — but there was otherwise no trace of my alleged edit. So, if you improve a suggested edit and it gets approved in the meantime, you get into a situation where  there is no link to the post; if you go back, you get to what you were doing before and lose your edit; if you reload the page as instructed, you lose your edit.  The bug here is that unless you take extra precautions such as copy-pasting your edit into an external editor, you will lose your work. Expected behavior Unlike normal edit conflicts, an edit made to a suggested edit is guaranteed to be a derivative of the suggested edit - so if that edit was approved and then an &quot;improved&quot; version is submitted, that &quot;improvement&quot; edit should be applied to the post (the helpful status indicated by the checkbox shouldn't affect anything though). When two different reviewers both opt to improve a suggested edit, a conflict is unavoidable - this should be resolved based on the size of the edit, as is the normal behavior.