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To prevent noise and friction, your change must be more than 6 characters

So, unfortunately, some of those infuriating typos will not be possible to fix. Reducing noise has benefits, but it also seems like these trivial errors are perfect for casual users to spot and fix. And it's possible that noise will actually be increased by people making spurious changes to cross the 6 character threshold.

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But those little changes are also where opinion comes into play a lot of the time — minor punctuation niggles, regional spelling differences, two spaces at the beginning of a sentence, etc.

People really will suggest very odd, highly subjective edits. I rejected one yesterday where a new-ish user wanted to add "Thanks" at the end of somebody else's question.

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