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Reto Koradi
Reto Koradi
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In addition to Shoq'sShog's excellent point, one of the main reasons reputation is linked to the ability to make edits unilaterally is that reputation is an effective stand-in for experience. You've been on the site long enough to gain 2000 reputation, that means:

  1. You clearly know (to some extent) how to make posts that the community deems valuable.
  2. You've probably read a decent number of questions and answers, and as such have some idea of what the community considers a good question.

As such, you probably know enough to make edits to correct posts to community standards. It's not a guarantee, but in the scheme of things it's probably better to have more people making edits than less; we have a lot of content that needs editing, after all.

In addition, there's relatively little risk involved here. If a 2k user starts making edits that are inappropriate, there are thousands upon thousands of other 2k users who can correct them - and odds are, will. In the rare case that a 2k user is making edits no other 2k users can see, there's always the moderator flag, plus the original poster can of course always correct any edit to their posts.

In addition to Shoq's excellent point, one of the main reasons reputation is linked to the ability to make edits unilaterally is that reputation is an effective stand-in for experience. You've been on the site long enough to gain 2000 reputation, that means:

  1. You clearly know (to some extent) how to make posts that the community deems valuable.
  2. You've probably read a decent number of questions and answers, and as such have some idea of what the community considers a good question.

As such, you probably know enough to make edits to correct posts to community standards. It's not a guarantee, but in the scheme of things it's probably better to have more people making edits than less; we have a lot of content that needs editing, after all.

In addition, there's relatively little risk involved here. If a 2k user starts making edits that are inappropriate, there are thousands upon thousands of other 2k users who can correct them - and odds are, will. In the rare case that a 2k user is making edits no other 2k users can see, there's always the moderator flag, plus the original poster can of course always correct any edit to their posts.

In addition to Shog's excellent point, one of the main reasons reputation is linked to the ability to make edits unilaterally is that reputation is an effective stand-in for experience. You've been on the site long enough to gain 2000 reputation, that means:

  1. You clearly know (to some extent) how to make posts that the community deems valuable.
  2. You've probably read a decent number of questions and answers, and as such have some idea of what the community considers a good question.

As such, you probably know enough to make edits to correct posts to community standards. It's not a guarantee, but in the scheme of things it's probably better to have more people making edits than less; we have a lot of content that needs editing, after all.

In addition, there's relatively little risk involved here. If a 2k user starts making edits that are inappropriate, there are thousands upon thousands of other 2k users who can correct them - and odds are, will. In the rare case that a 2k user is making edits no other 2k users can see, there's always the moderator flag, plus the original poster can of course always correct any edit to their posts.

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Joe
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In addition to Shoq's excellent point, one of the main reasons reputation is linked to the ability to make edits unilaterally is that reputation is an effective stand-in for experience. You've been on the site long enough to gain 2000 reputation, that means:

  1. You clearly know (to some extent) how to make posts that the community deems valuable.
  2. You've probably read a decent number of questions and answers, and as such have some idea of what the community considers a good question.

As such, you probably know enough to make edits to correct posts to community standards. It's not a guarantee, but in the scheme of things it's probably better to have more people making edits than less; we have a lot of content that needs editing, after all.

In addition, there's relatively little risk involved here. If a 2k user starts making edits that are inappropriate, there are thousands upon thousands of other 2k users who can correct them - and odds are, will. In the rare case that a 2k user is making edits no other 2k users can see, there's always the moderator flag, plus the original poster can of course always correct any edit to their posts.