This suggested edit, while a useful one, only edits a single character in the answer. How did it manage to bypass the minimum 'edit size' of 6 characters?
When I try to change just the 'B' to a 'C' as an anonymous user, I'm unable to:
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3Now, it is easy to workaround this: add 10 characters, plus your one-character change, then remove these 10 characters in the next edit for the same post. – that doesn't work anymore. Just tried ...– Glorfindel ModJan 22 at 15:00
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1Does it have something to do with the fact that the whole paragraph is highlighted in the diff, rather than just the single changed character? Or does it always do that?– zcoop98Jan 22 at 16:19
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It looks like you did that anonymously, while the other person did it as a registered user; so they had grace while you were two different users. --- On another point: Algorithm explanation: meta.stackexchange.com/a/128705/282094 (found while scrutinizing this false lead that was unearthed from this seemingly duplicate but not Q&A).– RobJan 22 at 16:39
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1Suggested edits that modify the question title aren't subject to a 6-character requirement for editing the body. That said, the edit is to an answer, so that's not the thing at play here.– Sonic the Anonymous HedgehogJan 22 at 20:10
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I've been able to shed some light on this by comparing the Markdown of the two revisions with this SEDE query. The old revision has Unix line endings (just \n) while the new one has Windows line endings (\r\n):
It's understandable that the diff doesn't show any difference, but I always thought whitespace was ignored when it came to the character limit. In this particular case, it isn't, and I was able to submit a suggested edit appearing to change nothing here.
answered Aug 22 at 9:24
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Too bad you can't perform a concurrent edit to auto-reject it as an edit conflict anymore. Aug 22 at 9:52
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