I ran into the same problem myself recently. Only in my case the original poster didn't agree with the edit either, since the wording was "obvious to him". He r

I ran into the same problem myself recently. Only in my case the original poster didn't agree with the edit either, since the wording was "obvious to him". He recommended i propose an edit and let mods decide (failed twice already, same reason as for you), or write my own answer (question was locked). It led me to try and find the mission statement of SO and it only says it wants to be the biggest resource of questions and answers. No word about quality. I suspect they only care about answer amount as that helps their google rank, and quality doesn't.