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We're discouraged from fixing typos and misspellings on SE sites?
I quite often see questions or answers with a spelling mistake or similar typo here and there, and will edit to correct them, resulting in one or two character changes (like changing affect to effect and vice-versa, as it "... Why does it have this affect").
Why is there now a minimum for edits, and can it be removed, please?
This restriction applies only to suggested edits. If you have 2000 reputation or more on a site, or you are editing your own post, you have full edit capabilities and are not bound by this restriction. In other words, for the sites where you're seeing this limit, you have never had this ability previously because you had under 2000 reputation.
Why is this? All suggested edits must be approved by a 2000 rep user before they appear, to prevent vandalism. To stop the suggested edit queue from filling up with changes that aren't really important, six character changes are required.
For more detail, see the blog.
