Timeline for Why the minimum 6 characters limit on edits
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| Nov 10, 2011 at 18:32 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | The kind of message I'm thinking of is, for example: "Your edit only changes 2 characters. Tiny edits are discouraged on AskUbuntu unless they are very important. Please consider if the change you are making is important, and also consider whether or not there are other improvements you can make as well." (Then the user would be permitted to make/propose the small edit, if they really wanted to do so.) | |
| Nov 10, 2011 at 18:31 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan |
Agreed. Recently I edited a post that had a - where a . should have been, in the name of a file. Since I was unable to make just that change, I did change the post in other ways, improve formatting, and user bigger markup (like <code>.</code> instead of tickmarks). Some of those changes were good, and others were merely neutral. If I had been warned that small edits are allowed but discouraged, with a message encouraging me to consider making additional changes if warranted, I think that would have the advantages of the current policy without the disadvantages.
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| Nov 7, 2011 at 12:29 | history | answered | Prateek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |