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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 …
9mo ago
My own view is that even minor edits are valuable, even on old posts. I appreciate that there will sometimes be reason t …
9mo ago
I rejected several of the edits as post author, not as a moderator. Edits to the content were trivial at best, usually …
9mo ago
I am the user mentioned in this question. I believe that submitting an edit just for removing or adding a tag is not …
9mo ago
I strongly oppose the refusal to accept these tag edits. Many of the edits were declined by the same reviewer with simil …
9mo ago
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I am the user mentioned in this question.
I believe that submitting an edit just for removing or adding a tag is not enough.
BUT if you look at those questions, none of them have [discussion], [support], [bug] or [feature-request].
My guess is that at that time these were not required, so some questions didn't include them. But they are required now. Nobody can write a question in the present time without including one of these tags.
I edited such a post and clicked submit, then an error came saying that the post doesn't have a required tag. And just like that all my work on that post was back to point 0. So I thought why not add the required tag to such posts.
Not having a required tag in a question:
- Makes it look like that post has "broken" the site.
- Makes it difficult to search questions and categorize them broadly based on the four required tags.
- It is a "required tag" so every question should have one. Otherwise it may be confusing.
I believe that adding a required tag isn't that "minor", because of the above reasons.
But I agree that for such edits the post should not be bumped. But also this is just a one-time case of edits since from a point of time since they were made mandatory, every question has a required tag.
I would have also opposed an edit for just some normal tags.
But I am happy to learn more about the site's policies on such edits.
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