About reviewing questions

Question

Now that I have more than 1K rep, I get the reviewing feature which I hate, I'm not into moderation. I hate being a judge. So far I skipped all reviews but today I saw two reviews that I want to ask you about

The first is this

Basically the editor just indented the question, would you accept such edit? Or is it point farming? How would this edit help make the question better? What rules do you follow when doing the reviewing?

The other question was edited by a spamer who removed the whole question and inserted some stupid text, what to do about it? I marked it as a spam but should I take further action to ban him from the entire SE network or something?

EDIT

I started a feature request on Meta.SO: Add captcha to anonymous edits, please support this feature by voting it up if you agree.

Answer 1

In your example, the edit isn't actually the indent, it's the addition of an appropriate tag. This is valid and helpful. However, if it was simply that indent, I would reject it, since that's really a matter of style, and there's no call to impose your style on other users.

I always accept even small edits that are correctly done. While I suppose it's possible to be motivated by the rep alone to make tiny changes, it's not really easy to tell unless there is a flood of trivial edits from a user. Per se, I would rather accept a mini improvement than reject it in the name of foiling greed that might not exist.

If I see a ton of micro edits from a particular user, I would likely reject the lot. But I haven't seen this much, and not at all on this site.

As far as the spam edit goes, you should reject the edit as spam, but an anonymous user can't be banned.