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Increase the character limit of the custom edit rejection reasons
During my time on Arqade, I sometimes take some time from my experience to visit the Suggested Edits review queue, and approve/reject the edits I see.
I find myself rejecting a lot of edits that are ...
user805262
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The 6 character edit threshhold and replacing links
Say you come across an old post and linked in it is this URL:
https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/shelve.html
Updating the URL changes only three characters and doesn't surpass the edit threshold:
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Should we change the phrasing of the "under 6 characters minimum" message to prevent confusion and duplicate questions
When making a small edit (say to code or hyperlinks) to fix something that's testably broken, you may get the error message forcing you to leave provably broken code.
Edits must be at least 6 ...
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Allow "suggested edits" to be less than 10 characters [duplicate]
Right now, a user making a suggested edit to a Q or A, must make at least 10 chars change, as there is a filter to that effect which seems to be active on all subsites.
The problem is that quite ...
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Can we change the minimum character restrictions on edit suggestions on the math sites?
I think that we should do away with character limits on edits to Math Stack Exchange and MathOverflow. My main reason is that, in a mathematical post, a one-character error can cost a reader a ...
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Could we restrict reputation bonus for edits to a minimum character length, and remove the edit size restriction?
In Austio's response to this question, it needs a single character edit which is critical to the response (@user should be @users). However, due to the edit length restriction, I could not make the ...
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Suggested edits: retagging and small changes
I am allowed to suggest an edit by re-tagging only, but I am not allowed to re-tag and make a small change of less than 6 characters in the same edit. (For example correcting a small code format error)...
user245884
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What's with the 10-char min for edit summaries?
This has always annoyed the hell out of me, because sometimes I'm just fixing a 1 or 2 character typo that made the title harder to read, and the best summary is "typo", and the edit is obvious if you ...
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formatting posts [duplicate]
So sometimes I edit new people's posts just to fix up dodgy formatting. I consider such edits useful because they tend to greatly improve the readability of any code included. Very often when I choose ...
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Change this behavior to allow for spelling corrections and the like: "Edits must be at least 6 characters"
Now, 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.
But this can hardly be what the designers ...
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Allow under 6 character changes if they are inside code tags
I tried to update a jQuery code block that was missing a curly brace. The code is incorrect, but I cannot edit it since changes under 6 characters are not allowed (at least at my level of rep?).
I ...
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