This is hardly an offical Stack Exchange answer, but here are my two cents. The way I understand the self-evaluation period, it's a dry run to see if a site really has a sustainable community (no pun intended), and if it's "worth while" keeping it open - is there a suffient volume of new questions coming in? Are they getting answered in a timely and proffesional manner?

Another aspect of this sentiment, (again, as far as I can understand it) is to see whether this is just a site, or whether it truely becomes a community, in the self-moderating Stack Exchange way.

I don't think that evaluating whether 100% of the userbase write their questions without any typos and tag them perfectly is interesting. What is interesting is that when these mistakes happen they self correct, by actions like yours.
So my bottom line - this isn't cheating - on the contrary.

This is hardly an offical Stack Exchange answer, but here are my two cents. The way I understand the self-evaluation period, it's a dry run to see if a site really has a sustainable community (no pun intended), and if it's "worth while" keeping it open - is there a suffient volume of new questions coming in? Are they getting answered in a timely and proffesional manner?

Another aspect of this sentiment, (again, as far as I can understand it) is to see whether this is just a site, or whether it truely becomes a community, in the self-moderating Stack Exchange way.

I don't think that evaluating whether 100% of the userbase write their questions without any typos and tag them perfectly is interesting. What is interesting is that when these mistakes happen they self correct, by actions like yours.
So my bottom line - this isn't cheating - on the contrary.