Timeline for Are we discouraged from fixing typos and misspellings on Stack Exchange sites?
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| S Dec 9, 2019 at 19:51 | history | suggested | Timur Shtatland |
Add missing tag
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| Dec 9, 2019 at 19:27 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 1:11 | answer | added | Robert Oschler | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 9:23 | comment | added | user261098 | This is the quintessential example of punishing the majority because of a few bad apples. There's always a better way. I'm amazed this hasn't changed in the last 5 years. Incredible. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 14:11 | answer | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 18:25 | history | edited | raven | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2014 at 6:35 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Mar 14, 2014 at 23:26 | answer | added | skierpage | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 2:11 | comment | added | user148312 | You are encouraged to clutter the page with a comment, so someone with enough rep can then come and fix the issue | |
| Mar 21, 2013 at 8:00 | comment | added | Dan Dascalescu | @CoreXii - you're wasting your time. As someone else pointed out, nothing will change Jeff's mind on certain topics. | |
| Dec 9, 2012 at 2:33 | history | edited | raven | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
that comment distracts from the oringinal intent of the question
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| Oct 10, 2012 at 18:10 | history | edited | yoozer8 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited title
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| May 20, 2012 at 13:47 | comment | added | Core Xii | The length of an edit is a poor correlator to the substantiality of the edit in a field where a single character is the difference between code that compiles or not, works or not, bugs out or not. | |
| May 19, 2012 at 18:09 | history | rollback | raven |
Rollback to Revision 4
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| May 19, 2012 at 1:27 | history | edited | Cody Gray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 7, 2012 at 13:50 | answer | added | nicodemus13 | timeline score: 26 | |
| Feb 4, 2012 at 1:56 | comment | added | laurent | When I cannot edit a post because of this annoying 6 characters limit, I usually just link one of the words to Wikipedia. I think it's pointless and it actually takes more time for moderators to review the edit, but that's often the only way a post can be edited. | |
| S May 16, 2011 at 19:19 | history | suggested | SamB |
Add "character-limit" tag
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| May 16, 2011 at 19:18 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 9, 2011 at 10:03 | answer | added | RomanSt | timeline score: 40 | |
| Feb 6, 2011 at 4:01 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @endolith a civilized society requires laws; remember that we allow anonymous internet users to participate, too. The idea that the time you spent on a trivial edit is more important than the two (2) editors' time who must look at, review, and approve your trivial edit.. well, it's a common misconception. | |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 20:19 | history | edited | Arjan |
edited tags
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| Feb 2, 2011 at 19:14 | comment | added | endolith | @Arjan: And many commenters agree that the "solution" does more harm than good. Is the goal of the site still to provide and identify good answers to questions? | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 11:43 | comment | added | Arjan | @endolith, many restrictions were introduced after some folks managed to abuse the freedom. | |
| Feb 1, 2011 at 16:11 | comment | added | endolith | What is with all these stupid policies on Stack Exchange sites? No voting more than once every 5 seconds, no changing votes, no making minor edits. I'm trying to fix a one-character typo in someone's code that would prevent it from working correctly, and the page has refused my edit 3 times in a row. "Edit summary too short." "Edit too small." Fine, I won't bother! Why waste my time working around all these stupid restrictions? These seem to be implemented as band-aids with little forethought and do more harm than good. | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 16:56 | answer | added | Jeff Atwood | timeline score: 65 | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 16:18 | history | edited | raven | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 31, 2011 at 14:43 | vote | accept | raven | ||
| Jan 31, 2011 at 14:33 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | Related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/74430/…. Though that one talks less about the actual implemented limit. | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 14:32 | answer | added | jzd | timeline score: 154 | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 14:32 | comment | added | Bert F | Agreed - I ran into that limit when trying to make a small bug fix to code (3 chars). Since the the warning encouraged that "surely more can be improved with your edit", I took the time to also add a variation of the code someone had asked about in the comments. Later, I noticed the post had the bug fix, but not the code variant. | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 14:32 | comment | added | Arjan | (See also the screen captures as How does peer review for edits work?.) | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 14:28 | history | asked | raven | CC BY-SA 2.5 |