I proposed this edit to this answer. In particular, I was editing a snippet of code which was prefixed with "If you run through the following code in Python 2.7 (or later)". The snippet will only work in Python 2.7, not any later version of Python, because the only versions of Python later than 2.7 are Python 3. This has been true from the day Python 2.7 came into existence, as it was intentionally from the start the last release of Python 2. Python 3 does not support the print statement nor the except Exception, e: syntax (replaced with except Exception as e:). That makes the wording in the answer wrong. However, 2 edit reviewers rejected my edit with the apparently canned justification
This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of the post's owner.
This justification doesn't make any sense to me. I did not change the intent of the answer. I changed the syntax of a snippet that said it should work on "Python 2.7 (or later)" so that it actually does work on Python 2.7 or later.
Why was my edit rejected? How can I improve it to meet the criteria?