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Is it ok to remove spam links from an off-topic question even after flagging the question as Spam?

Please remove spammy links if the question or answer can stay up without them. If you are going to flag them as spam to be deleted, then please leave the spammy link in it. It makes it easier for ...
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5 votes

Why was this suggested edit rejected?

I've never seen somebody using [go] and [so] style anchor annotations in the wiki syntax. My guess is that the person reviewing it didn't see that one of those was actually correcting a link. On ...
Stephen Ostermiller's user avatar
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Why was this suggested edit rejected?

I agree, it looks like a case of mistaken rejection! The "important" edit, of correcting the link, is physically a very small one so it perhaps got missed. You made other (more trivial, but ...
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Fixing 21 grammatical errors is a "minor change" worth of rejection?

I was the moderator who rejected that one amongst others. Basically when we get a flood of edits old questions and answers it bumps old content to the top of the "active" page and buries the newer ...
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Edit / Reedit question

I saw the beginnings of that edit war yesterday after you edited it and he reverted it. For the record here is a direct link to the edit diffs. I don't think your edit was bad, but I think that the ...
Stephen Ostermiller's user avatar
2 votes

A polite note about my rollback of the edit on "Why is my subdomain not showing up?"

In general we prefer to use example.com here. Most of the time, the specific site isn't needed to understand the question or the answers. And even when it is needed, that usually means that the ...
Stephen Ostermiller's user avatar
2 votes

Can I reply to moderator's question edit?

About the specific edit you seem to ask about: While a moderator also edited your question, the edit that removed tags came from me (I’m not a mod). Why I removed the microdata tag: Microdata is ...
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