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Someone is stealing my edits

When submitting an edit, a person is rejecting it in the review queue, but then submits their own edit where many things from my edit are copied.
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Guidelines for suggested edits being too minor

I had always thought that the community consensus on very minor suggested edits was that they should be rejected [1][2]. Personally, I agree with that (and I believe some reviews by schroeder support ...
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Soteri brute forcing tag edits

Exhibit A: https://security.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/149427 Rejected by Schroeder because he thought it was not about MD5 specifically (I thought it was and approved, but I was also ...
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Why can the "Community" bot approve suggested edits?

I recently came across this suggested edit, which I had rejected for being insubstantial. When I later looked at how others had reviewed the edit, I saw that the Community user apparently approved ...
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What to do if OP edits their question from a different account?

In the edit review queue, I sometimes encounter edits by someone who writes as if they were the OP, or even claim to be the OP, even though they are using a different account. The OP account is ...
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What is our definition of an IT Professional?

I recently came across this answer: What should you do if you catch encryption ransomware mid-operation? And instantly had an issue with the choice of words: We are professionals and will help you ...
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What did happen to my suggested edit?

Yesterday, I saw a post containing BS words. So, I suggested an edit with these words removed and appropriate words used. Here is the link for that suggested edit. And here is the link of that post. ...
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Why is my edit attributed to another user?

I recently tried to edit a question and someone else beat me to the punch. I reviewed their edit and felt like my edit would further improve their edit, so I resubmitted my edit. After resubmitting my ...
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Grammar VS style fixes

I'm asking about this edit, commented as 'grammar fixes': https://security.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/80432 While there are some actual grammar fixes, like Chrome used to run in place ...
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Approve edits that add value to an answer beyond the intent/knowledge of the original poster?

I just voted to approve this edit because it does clarify the point made by the answer, however I think it takes it beyond the knowledge or intent of the original poster and am still not sure if ...
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Cannot edit a post on security.stackexchange.com?

Somewhat new to participating on SE. I have been searching around the meta and stack exchange help center but not finding much if any guidance. On this post I am unable to recommend an edit to improve ...
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