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My preferred suggested edits fix is to stop having edit privileges be rep based and, instead, base it on suggested edit success rates - many users are great at editing without ever managing to earn >2k rep - so you get more reviewers and have fewer people suggesting edits in the first place because they've (hopefully) earned the ability to edit freely.
– Catija
Commented Sep 6, 2024 at 15:15
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None of those would work because there aren't any official SE editing guidelines, so a minimum quorum of 2 reviewers is necessary. Besides, I had 500 approved suggested edits when I started to understand all the criteria put together, and I still see plenty of high rep users rejecting valid edits based on some decade old post that just happened to be upvoted. There won't be any magic solution without an official set of editing guidelines.
– bad_coder
Commented Sep 6, 2024 at 16:30
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@bad_coder any suggestion is better than the current state. I'd say I am an ok editor, but i only occasionally edits posts (and thus only slowly get better at it) as I have to judge whether it is worth one of my five (or less) available edit slots and if the queue is not full again. Same reason I also stopped (or never really started) doing any reviews, from the comments of past (and oftentimes rejected) proposals I know that this happens quite a bit.
– B-Tech
Commented Sep 6, 2024 at 18:25

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