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| May 3, 2016 at 14:44 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | @MXYMXY: Note that Daniel said "fixing twenty typos one by one ten or fifteen minutes apart". If you make multiple edits within the grace period (which is 5 minutes, IIRC), they are treated as a single edit event, which means they are coalesced into a single edit point in the edit history and they only cause a single bump event. Of course, this doesn't really apply to people who need to have their edits approved. :) | |
| May 2, 2016 at 10:40 | comment | added | Daniel Fischer Mod | @MilesRout Technically, it's possible. But it's unlikely to happen. The point of the bump is to have people look at the edit to make sure it's okay (and flag/roll back inappropriate edits). And to have a lot of different people do that. If you remove the bump, you'd need a specialised review queue to check edits, and that tends to create a small group of people all looking at many edits instead of many people all looking at few. | |
| May 2, 2016 at 10:34 | comment | added | Daniel Fischer Mod | @MXYMXY If you fix grammatical or formatting issues, that's fine, whether you are the author or somebody else. As long as you don't make a lot of small edits shortly after each other. If there are many things to fix, make one comprehensive edit. But irrespective of bumping, one should review and proofread one's posts before posting. | |
| May 2, 2016 at 9:21 | comment | added | S.C.B. | Okay, I really did not know this. I generally answer or ask a question without reviewing it, so I edit it a lot, and was not aware of what 'bumping' was. Perhaps I should refrain from such behavior from now on. +1. Also, would it be considered bad etiquette if I edited another user's answer or question because of grammatical and formatting issues? Thanks. | |
| May 2, 2016 at 8:16 | comment | added | user153047 | Is it possible for StackExchange to get a 'minor edits' flag when you edit a question or answer? Wikipedia has one. Even fairly low-rep accounts could be allowed to review whether an edit is minor or not, if there were clear 'minor edit' guidelines, and they wouldn't bump. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 11:58 | vote | accept | Szmagpie | ||
| Apr 20, 2016 at 19:21 | history | answered | Daniel FischerMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |