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So long as there's good reason to think the post is improved by the edit, even if it's only improved a little bit, then the edit makes sense. However, if you don't yet have enough reputation - so you …

As you know, I am one of the reviewers who rejected (both of) your attempts to apply this edit. I think it is far from obvious that the specific change made here is correct or even safe. There are tw …

I think terdon's answer addresses the original question perfectly, but I'd like to address the added material. What is code? You object to formatting filenames like /home/ek/Desktop as code. How about …

Preventing them from being bumped up to the front page is not a major reason to avoid editing them--since there won't likely be additional activity, they won't stay there for long. … Closed questions should not be edited to generalize them, especially if they are closed as too-localized, unless you are the OP or are editing the question on behalf of, or in response to a discussion …

I want to focus first on one of your questions that I consider very important: Links: should they be shown like "I followed this link" or like "I followed https://foo". It is true that li …

In that situation, the editing history will show both reviewers' actions.) … The editing history shows this as the Community user approving your edit and the reviewer editing the post themselves immediately afterwards. …

Here's a couple of guidelines. Just be aware that this reflects my preferences. I recommend soliciting the views of others as well. (Which is to say, I recommend others post answers here too.) Treat …

I mostly agree with Oyibo, but I make a different distinction: This is less about fast answers vs. quality answers, and more about real answers vs. fake answers. An answer should answer the question. …

As with editing in general, it's best to look at the whole post and see what else you can improve. …

We've had an upswing of spam recently (hopefully short-lived), and I've noticed a few users editing spam posts to remove links. …

Yes, paragraph breaks should be included. And they should appear first (or right before line breaks, wherever line breaks appears). That way, anyone who considers adding a line break and checks the h …

In this case I would suggest doing nothing, because the post is readable as it is. It would look prettier if its two list items were in an actual ordered list, but the 1), 2) formatting is readable he …

This might seem good at first, but I think it would really lead to defensive editing. … edit suggestions should never cause a loss of rep is are: (a) The rep wouldn't be recouped by good edits made after the editing privilege was attained. …

Except to handle a pattern that needs moderator attention, flagging when editing does the job should be avoided. … So sometimes someone will contribute by editing a question to refine it and establish it as within the scope of our site, which is a contribution that benefits us all. …

If the edit is appropriate and useful and nothing else needed editing, approve it. This can only be answered in a very general way, because there's no specific edit suggestion* to look at. … For a post like this meta post where there where the other things that benefited from editing were not big problems, I would have clicked Improve Edit and made the additional changes. …