Skip to main content
Meta Stack Exchange

You are not logged in. 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.

Required fields*

13
  • 9
    "copied content" gets used less because by the time you check and choose it it's already been approved Commented Aug 21, 2014 at 0:05
  • 2
    @random ... by people that don't even check. Commented Aug 21, 2014 at 0:16
  • 1
    You mention “in favor of being implicitly chosen by the system”; does the system currently have a set of criteria for this (other than too short), or would you be adding a new facility for it to do so, or would you just be enhancing the auto-detector in some fashion? Commented Aug 21, 2014 at 0:18
  • 1
    @random The submitter and approvers of plagiarism should have a reputation penalty, after mixed plagiarism/approve go to a mod queue to confirm. Commented Aug 21, 2014 at 0:23
  • @bjb568 Approvers of plagiarism should get a penalty? Can’t they plead ignorance of the law? Commented Aug 21, 2014 at 3:34
  • 5
    @tchtist Ignorance is the problem we're trying to solve here... Commented Aug 21, 2014 at 4:17
  • 1
    I don't agree with the way you're talking about replacing "too minor". Sometimes I consider the original post good enough, the only problem is minor spelling or grammar problems. I don't see the need for an alternate edit, I think the question can be left as is. That's why I currently reject the edit as too minor. Have I been on the Internet too long, so I've become accustomed to crappy writing? Commented Aug 21, 2014 at 19:42
  • 1
    I suspect most of us have, @Barmar. Commented Aug 21, 2014 at 19:43
  • This is live, right? Commented Sep 8, 2014 at 22:42
  • 1
    Elsewhere you made a comment about "Under X characters, where X is between 6 and 600?" --- It is still necessary for non-2k users to make edits of a 'substantial' nature (see for example, fixing a typo of 'now' to 'know' and 'it's' to 'its' programmers.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/76440 ). It is disappointing to need to approve such other rewordings to actually see the improvement in the post. Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 3:30
  • 1
    @tchrist Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 13:22
  • 2
    I read this post and I still don't see a reason for removing the "Too Minor" rejection option, other than "I want to remove it", which is no reason at all. I also disagree with all the other suggested changes to the appropriate use of each of the remaining options, without an array of alternatives already put forward to replace the lost "choices" that were used more than any of the choices that have remained. I do not like such unanticipated, unilateral action. Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 13:25
  • 1
    The rationale is given here, @TylerH - I'm not interested in debating it here, as it is part of a larger problem. The rest of the rejection reasons have some issues as well, but I do believe they can be salvaged / augmented / replaced. Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 14:31