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Selecting "Improve Edit" and editing nothing sometimes allows the review to be submitted

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Just now I was viewing a question, and saw that there was a suggested edit. I opened the dialog box to review the edit, and saw that the only improvement they were making was adding indentation so that the code would display properly. Sure that there was something else that could be improved, I selected Improve Edit. However, I couldn't find any additional edits worth making, so I left it alone and selected Save Edits.

Here's the gif for the additional proof:

And the outcome in the revisions:

The edit was immediately applied! (Due to having that privilege from 2000 rep)

The edit was still attributed to the person who suggested the edit, and when I viewed the approval description, it said:

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My name doesn't appear anywhere in the review history. It can only be seen that this happened by clicking on the "edit approved" link in the review history.

I feel that my action should instead have been considered "Approve", because I made no edits. Curiously, it labelled it as approved by the "Community" as well, which I know is also used for when the OP approves an edit, but I know this wasn't the OP because it was approved 1 second after I clicked save, and also because I can reproduce the behavior.

Is this the intended behavior? I understand that selecting "Improve Edit" but not actually making any edits is deceitful, and I should have been more careful, but it seems very unusual that I could trump the "3 person must approve" rule just by clicking "Improve Edit" and then not making edits.


Worth to mention that it doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes you're properly presented with this message:

It doesn't look like the behavior is predictable, sometimes it appears completely random (you can't know for sure if the review will be successful or not).


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