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    My eyes hate you now, well done. Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 18:55
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    This is a great idea, and would make it much easier to get those users edit-banned Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 18:56
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    I like this idea. Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 18:57
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    Frankly, I think those approving such crap are the actual problem. We've all made pointless edits at first, at least I know I did, and I had absolutely no clue I was doing something wrong while my edits were getting approved. Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 19:08
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    @jadarnel27 Yes, give more guns to the criminally insane, good plan ;) Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 19:23
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    While I agree with the vast majority of the corrections you made to those posts, I do think that putting backticks around programming language keywords, class names, and function names is okay. I'd approve edits where those were the only changes made. (That's not the case here, I'm just trying to find where the line is.) Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 19:39
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    @YannisRizos Right, this is just a symptom. The real issue is that apparently some people mindlessly accept edits, so let's work on stopping that from happening. Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 19:47
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    Related: Please facilitate undoing the harm from bad suggested edits What can we do to stop bad edits getting accepted? Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 21:14
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    +1 and give the user who did the excess back ticks -2 rep for making me spend more money at the optometrist. Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 21:55
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    We needs this so badly. Still finding accounts that are farming rep by spamming the site with bad edits. Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 17:34
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    I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing this, but for God's sake, make it stop! Maybe we need to raise the rep bar for people to approve edits. Commented Aug 6, 2012 at 5:59
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    @BradMace - I've seen people with 60K+ rep approve the most atrocious edits. It'd be a first for SO, but I think users should have to be able to pass a test to be able to approve edits. You can't identify bad edits? Then you don't get to approve them. Commented Nov 14, 2012 at 18:25
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    @LittleBobbyTables: That would be awesome. There's the question of how exactly we're going to implement such a test, of course... but with such a smart team of developers here I'm sure they'll figure something out. Commented Nov 14, 2012 at 18:27
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    As an aside almost all rep (except I think bounties). can be reversed via unaccepting, unvoting, post deletion, user deletion, or sock puppet detection. Why are suggested edits so unimpeachable. Commented Dec 14, 2012 at 18:34
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    Possible duplicate of Could authors overturn recent community review decisions? Commented Jan 22, 2018 at 18:11