So I go to edit a post, and it already has a suggested edit on it, blocking me from editing.  Well, fine.  The suggested editor fixed all of the spelling errors, so I'll just approve his edit.     1 more users required to approve this edit.   AAUGH!  Anyone with edit privileges should just be able to summarily approve these edits.  Otherwise, why did we bother giving them editing privileges?  Please fix this.  Note: I am already aware of  and , but it's been five years and there's been no movement, so I'm raising my hand again.  Also, 10K is fine, but the bar we set for unilateral editing was 2K, not 10K.  I'm also aware of .  The problem is not polishing turds, it's that I'm blocked from any further editing efforts until the review is unwound.
It's not consistent to leave an edit pending for approval (thus not making available for everyone else and locking its state) after a user who has those privileges have given his endorsement.   You could say why don't I improve the edit, but that makes no sense for something that is correct and it would not follow the "keep it simple" policy.  Update:  This is the current time line:   Someone who doesn't know about formatting makes a question. It's not legible A user without edit privileges amends the formatting. The correction is not visible, still not legible. I see the question and the pending revision and then cast my approval. It doesn't take effect yet, still not legible. Even for me if I didn't take care of copying the question source because it disappears from my own revision page!   I might agree that one's approval is indicative of both revision's quality and editor's competence. But we should retain that the main objective is to ask and answer questions. So, I propose this model:   Someone who doesn't know about formatting makes a question. It's not legible A user without edit privileges amends the formatting. The correction is not visible, still not legible. A user with edit privileges cast his approval. Revision takes effect. Although it keeps the pending approval (the Edit (1) button). If a second user with edit privileges cast a rejection, it also takes effect as a rollback.
Calculating frames per second in a game The "Very Low Quality" (VLQ) flag reason is really annoying me.   It is the analog to the mommy mommy flag (which my 1.5-year-old child raises quite frequently). It provides no real clue as to what the flagger really wants us to do with the post.   Does she want us to close the question?  Does she want us to edit it into shape?  Does she want us to delete the question?  Does she want us to ban the user?  Does she want us to jump around and have a party?    Should we get rid of this flag reason?   Is it just me? Should and can we replace it with something better?     EDIT I accepted Jeff's answer. The tougher wording has heavily decreased the amount of very low quality flags. We now see only about 25% of the amount we used to and they are usually valid. Additionally, we now only allow very low quality on posts with a score of 0 or lower. Resize image proportionally with CSS? How can we prove charge invariance under Lorentz Transformation? 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I understand it can't be 0 or 3 but I don't understand how you can conclude we have 2 just by knowing how many eigenvalues we have. I am registered on about 80 SE sites, am an "avid user"(>200 rep) on about 30, and a modest user (103-199 rep) on about 20 more.  Once when I tried to ask a question on Open Data (my "new user" site), the "systemwide" 40 minute rate limit kicked in. So I asked on meta , given that my previous post on the site was days ago. So a mod commented by telling me about the systemwide post rule and asking me if I had just come from another site. I said, yes, History (my best site, 40K rep.)  I can see why I would be rate limited on Open Data. I can understand that I would be rate limited if I had come from say, Open Source, another site where I'm a new user. But did the system "rate limit" me as a new user on one site, based on my activity on History, an "established" site?  Also, about the one day new user rate limit after a question is downvoted: Suppose a question on the previous site receives two upvotes and one downvote (net of one upvote). Is that a different situation than receiving one down downvote and no upvotes? Or does the downvote count in both cases, including the one where there were offsetting upvotes? How about if the downvoted question on the previous site was deleted?  I don't have this problem when going from one "established" (greater than 125 rep) site to another. I understand why a person would be "rate limited" going from one new site to another; SE wants people to ask questions 40 minutes apart on their new sites. In my case, I was blocked when I left an "established" site (my best) to go to a new site, which is almost the same as going to a new site de novo.  Why would this be? Or can't the system tell that my "first" site was an established site? 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Work that includes maintaining a very large and soul destroying website that consists of a hodge podge of VBScript, javascript, Dreamweaver generated cruft and a collection of add-ons that various conmen have convinced them to buy over the years.   A few days ago I got a call "The website is locking up for people using Safari!" Okay, step one download Safari(v3.1.2), step two surf to the site. Everything appears to work fine.  Long story short I finally isolated the problem and it relates to Safari's back button. The website uses a fancy-pants javascript menu that works in every browser I've tried including Safari, the first time around. But in Safari if you follow a link off the page and then hit the back button the menu no longer works.  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I know that $\operatorname{Inn}(G) \cong G/Z(G)$, so in this case $\operatorname{Inn}(G) \cong G$ and $Z(\operatorname{Inn}(G))=1$.  Is there any way to get from this to $Z(\operatorname{Aut}(G))=1$?  How do we go about showing this?  Thanks. Dependency problem with mysql-server-core-5.5 When I start the Ubuntu software centre, it says I cannot do anything until the package catalog is repaired. However, repairing fails.  I ran sudo apt-get -f install and found the problem to be:  mysql-server-5.5 depends on mysql-server-core-5.5 (= 5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1); however:   Version of mysql-server-core-5.5 on system is 5.5.28-0ubuntu0.12.04.2.   So, the question is, how do I install that version and resolve the dependency problem? using apt-cache search I am learning how to use apt. When I do an apt-cache search git to see all packages matching git, I see a bunch of packages whose descriptions have nothing to do with git. Why is this so and how can I fix it? (Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS).  Also, why is the search functionality found in a command that has "cache" in its name? What does search functionality have to do with caches?  Thanks. What is the recommended CIDR when creating VPC on AWS? I have been creating AWS VPCs and I am wondering if there is a recommended CIDR value when creating VPCs. What are the factors that I must consider when choosing a CIDR and does the CIDR value affect the performance of the network? put (a) and (b) to one in subfigures What is a complete book for introductory quantum field theory? 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