Sometimes I come across errors in answers that are small, but "catastrophic". For example, they wrote is
when they meant isn't
, or they mis-typed a bash command that could damage someone's system. I can't fix these types of "off by one character" errors due to the character limit.
This has happened at least a dozen times over the last few years of using SO (my current account is a new account - I was tired of all the notifications on my last one). It's a bit frustrating because I want to help improve SO, but the platform seems unnecessarily antagonistic in this case and discourages me from even bothering to fix things in the first place.
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to overcome the character limit but then you need to make sure your edit comment is elaborate enough to explain why you applied that trickery to fool the system and don't complain when reviewers reject your edit anyway. – rene Aug 7 '19 at 6:12