Do you think there is any way, without making physical site changes, to make the moderation process more friendly?

This is just me thinking. I am not implying that the system is broken or that it will change. I just want to explore the topic to see what users think.

Mods are volunteers and many of us do not have much extra time but still I would like input from you guys.

On average we send 10–30 questions back to the user to edit a day. Of these quite a few do not ever return to be posted again.

Sometimes the user just does not return at all after asking a question and may not even know that their question was sent to edit in the first place, but I worry some take it personally and walk away before realizing how awesome Fluther is.

I am especially concerned about the users with interesting, quality questions that are well written aside of some typos or a bad title.

Do we think that the process is making quality new users inadvertently feel unwelcome? If so do you all think that there any ways to make the edit process seem less like a slap on the hand?

* Or is just the act of asking them to correct something offensive and not much can be done about it? *