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Minor suggested edits to old posts
There have recently been several edits in a short period of time by a single user. This user does not yet have the Edit Posts ability, so all of the edits are suggested edits, which require review by someone with the Edit Posts ability.
The outcomes of the suggested edits affect whether this user will also gain the Edit Posts ability. Some of the edits have been approved, and some rejected, even though the approved and rejected edits were similar. This makes it difficult for a user to judge which edits they should make and which edits they should avoid, making it difficult for a well meaning user to gain the Edit Posts ability.
Can we discuss whether edits for typos, formatting, and missing tags should be considered acceptable on old posts? I have my own opinion on this, but I'm aiming to keep the question neutral. I believe an answer either way will be more useful to users suggesting edits than having mixed responses to their suggestions.
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This discussion is about whether minor edits should happen on old posts. There are also closely related discussions:
- Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts?
- How should we approach large numbers of edits made all at once?
One of the linked questions, about not bumping minor edits, has a suggestion that would have helped in this case: allow …
3mo ago
My own view is that even minor edits are valuable, even on old posts. I appreciate that there will sometimes be reason t …
3mo ago
I rejected several of the edits as post author, not as a moderator. Edits to the content were trivial at best, usually …
3mo ago
I am the user mentioned in this question. I believe that submitting an edit just for removing or adding a tag is not …
3mo ago
I strongly oppose the refusal to accept these tag edits. Many of the edits were declined by the same reviewer with simil …
3mo ago
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I rejected several of the edits as post author, not as a moderator. Edits to the content were trivial at best, usually none. One suggested edit made the title longer without adding any meaning, thereby making it worse. In most cases, the only change was the addition of a tag.
The fact the questions hadn't had activity for three years also weighed into my decisions. In some cases, the whole topic wasn't relevant anymore because we'd moved on, the site software had progressed, etc.
I considered the cost of popping up old posts from by-gone times to be not worth the tag update.
The large simultaneous number of these edits also factored into my decision. If we really want to nitpick and clean up tags on old posts, it should be done slowly to avoid conflicting with the real current content. If there had been a single suggested edit, I might have thought "Yeah OK. Whatever.".
Even then, I'd have to consider whether it was really worth it. Tags and our usage of them evolve over time. I really don't want to see all old posts dredged up whenever current tag philosophy would require a change.
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