@PeterJames I don't agree with basing tag edits on which tags you've earned rep on. That would be too restrictive. Sure, you do need to have some understanding of the tag topic, and what the tag means. But you don't need to be a SME (subject matter expert).
Besides, people can be experts in tags they don't write answers for. Eg, I learned C a few decades before I learned Python. I don't think I've ever written a C answer on SO, and my C knowledge is a bit rusty these days, but I remember enough to do simple tag edits, if I want to.
OTOH, there's definitely room for improvement in the current editing system. It would be great if editors were required to demonstrate competence before they were permitted to edit. But I don't know a practical way to implement that.
Still, it amazes me that people with poor English skills feel qualified to do grammar edits. Maybe a simple quiz to earn edit privileges could remove the worst of them.
In theory. But in practice, we get robo-reviewers approving crap edits.
One hilarious example I saw in the last year involved a list of items indexed with Roman numerals. The original sentence said something like "Case I is correct". The editor changed it to "Case I am correct".
@PeterJames you're not the only one! Looks like this poor guy's heart also moved a bit, the doctor is looking for it.
:-D
@JourneymanGeek hehe. I learned the hard way years ago how broken this system is, with robo reviewers turning it into a wild wild west. Guess I could try and fight it e.g. meta posts, flags, asking mods to ban the robo's... but didn't feel like Don Quixote and still doesn't feel like that. ;)
I flagged a spammer the other day like that. They had a totally idle SO account for a year, then all of a sudden they created an account on a minor site & started spamming.
@ShadowWizard :-) No doubt that was generated by an AI with the prompt "please create an image of a doctor examining a patient's heart on an exam table" and who are we to argue with AI?
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@PM2Ring @PM2Ring I agree, restricting tag edits to tags on which you've earned rep would be too restrictive. I was only really thinking of tag-only edits, but even in that case it would probably be too restrictive and probably even more complex to work out the rules for deciding which tags to include. And the whole point of the suggested edits feature is to enable low rep users to be able to make edit suggestions and take part in improving the site.
