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What is, or should be the "right way" to edit a post for readability/formatting, and usage o...

What Mark said. Plus I use backticks anytime I want a snippet of syntactic code (programming code, CLI, file spec, etc) I want to stand out. ">" for quoting someone else, only. Quoting Wikipedia, …
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What do we do when a user edits their own post while not logged in or logged in as a differe...

Not in regards to the two examples (handling them has been covered well by pauska and Iain). If the edit is obviously by the OP, I generally approve it and try to merge the accounts if the edit was n …
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Indication that someone else is editing

Unfortunately that means the other person has to have been editing long enough to auto-save, or be done editing themself, and you have to have been editing long enough to auto save, then it will appear …
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Edits to fix code formatting and remove harmful info rejected as "too minor"

I completely agree the edit are entirely valid and improve the question. I still would have rejected as too minor. However, I would have used the Custom reason and explained that while the edits defin …
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Some kind of 'edit locking'

It's been discussed before, but I'll shovel this over to mSO if you really want. Basically they didn't want locks so that if people got in an 'edit war' (even mistakenly) that one user couldn't preve …
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What editing guideline did I violate by adding a fitting tag?

The Question is over a year and a half old and I didn't feel it needed to be dug up just to add a scarcely used tag. If you really feel it adds value to Server Fault and the Question having that parti …
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Description of Editing and Rep and FAQ

Who verifies the edits and when? Users on this site over 5,000 rep. How do we get to where our edits are no longer verified each time? You have to have over 2,000 rep. What rep do we need to not …
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Is there recourse to a user making persistent trivial edits?

Someone should probably tell him that edits of less than 6 characters don't count toward Copy Editor.
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Edit powers activate! Removing Hi/Thanks

Yes, if you can be bothered to do so, please edit them to: Hi, I have ${problem}. It has ${details}. Any thoughts ${actual question}? Thanks in advance, ${username}
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