Disclaimer: My English writing skills was relatively poor as English isn't my natural language. Feel free to edit this post to improve grammar/clarifying, etc...
First, I want to say thank you for your contribution to help this site getting better content.
I was the one who accept your suggested edit but reject it after see it overwhelming review queue. My reason is same with other answer here. But I think the main problem on your mass-editing is it will bump old lovely post to front page.
##Why the front page is precious?
IMHO the front page of every SE has some function:
From some-random-visitor perspective: Front page is our landing page. It would convinced them that our live is live. Some indications how this site was live is: (1) there are new question posted, (2) the question was get answer and (3) the question/answer is edited for improvement.
From questioner perspective: Front page is their showroom. It's a place when their question get some attention thus get answered by other experts.
From regular members perspective: Front page is place to look new question so they can answer it. Or to look new answer from old question so they can improve or (up|down)vote it.
Here the screenshot when front page was 'normal'.
You can see (1) there are new question posted, (2) the question was get answer and (3) the question/answer is edited for improvement.
Now, if the old post get edited, they will show up on the front page. Here the screenshot when mass-editing occurs
You can see that the second one was kind of weird. These are the things that might cross new user's mind when seeing the second front page.
- Why the old post get bumped to front page again? Is SF doesn't get new question anymore?
- I posted the question a while ago. And now my question was sinking, kick off from the front page and (maybe) getting no attention/answer :(?
##Some suggestion
In fact, I'm the relatively new to this SE (member for 6-7 month) but I'm the one of active editor in this site. Sometimes I do minor edit such as split long paragraph, remove thanks/signature, fix typo etc. When editing, my principle was derived from voretaq7 algorithm here:
If the post was new (< a week), then go ahead and edit it.
If the post was bumped to the front page because on one of the following reason
- bumped by Community ♦ user to front page
- get late answer from me/other users
AND it needs to be fixed, then go ahead and edit it.
And if you want to mass-editing, please consider to slow them down (like 2-5 edit pe hour) so our front page still show fresh content.