While in the suggested edit review queue, I noticed the same edit by the same user come up on two different questions. It was a single-letter change to correct a typo in the name of a common programming language.
On a hunch, I checked the user's activity and found nearly 60 suggestions in the past ~30 minutes. After spot-checking at least a dozen, I determined that every one of these suggestions corrected the same typo (and nothing else).
Normally I would approve an edit that corrects a typo; words should be spelled correctly, especially important words like the name of a language, especially in important places like the title of the post. However, this is a clear case of a user querying for some common error and then correcting it in bulk without regard for the overall quality of the post.
This has been discussed in the past; one SO moderator suggested approving the edits in this 2011 answer, another SO moderator suggested rejecting the edits in this 2012 answer and so on (see "related reading," below). I'm cautious about taking these older opinions at face value, considering the changes surrounding the removal of the "too minor" rejection reason in 2014.
I'm not asking whether to accept or reject the edits themselves. I voted to reject many of those pending edits using the custom "causes harm" reason and the explanation:
Please do not use search to suggest the same small edit in bulk to many questions without thoroughly revising each question as it deserves.
What I want to know is:
- Should I alert a moderator about this activity? If so, what's the best way—a custom flag on one of the edited questions?
- Is it appropriate to solicit assistance from other users in chat to reject the remaining pending suggestions?
Related reading
And on Meta Stack Exchange:
