Timeline for How to answer NO to "Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?"
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| Aug 31, 2018 at 9:49 | comment | added | Lone Learner |
I recently had to edit a post that had exactly four character error. The first line of a code block was not indented 4 spaces but the rest of the lines were. As a result, the whole code block was rendered as a paragraph (which looked like mess). There was nothing else I could improve in the post apart from adding the four missing spaces. This policy discourages this kind of useful and important edits. I had to add an HTML comment like <!-- foo bar --> just to satisfy the 6 character requirement. When will this restriction be removed? It impedes useful contributions.
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| Nov 1, 2016 at 0:45 | comment | added | Don Hatch | Strong downvote here if only I had the rep to do it. "There is always something you can do to improve a post" is false, has a condescending tone, and the policy is wasting my time. For example I'm currently wanting to make a 1-character change (adding a missing backtick) which would fix the severely messed up formatting of a whole paragraph. I have no interest in making other changes in which I risk messing something else up. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 14:44 | comment | added | pbarney | This is stupid. It encourages users to ignore spelling mistakes. I can't tell you the number of times I've been prevented from editing a simple misspelling on an otherwise excellent post, "This is always something you can do to improve a post" is an extremely bad response to this problem. | |
| May 25, 2015 at 2:05 | vote | accept | jww | ||
| May 25, 2015 at 1:51 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | @jww if you wanted to you could post on Meta Stack Exchange requesting the wording be changed, but the popup does say what it means: "Edits must be at least 6 characters", then it offers a suggestion that perhaps you can improve something else with the post in order to reach that minimum. | |
| May 25, 2015 at 0:38 | comment | added | jww | Thanks @nhinkle. Then why did it ask me the question? Why did it just tell me I can't do it? Should a UI bug be filled for this? | |
| May 25, 2015 at 0:27 | history | answered | nhinkleMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |