Good job, SO
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"CurrentDispatcher vs Currernt.Dispatcher! "
"CurrentDispatcher vs Current.Dispatcher! "Apparently you aren't allowed to fix METHOD CALL NAMES unless it's at least six letters different.
Ok.
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Jeffism is a barrier to correctness?
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Apparently you aren't allowed to fix METHOD CALL NAMES unless it's at least six letters different.
It's a higher-level privilege, in order to prevent certain sorts of gaming of the system.
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Couldn't you just add an "EDIT: fix typo" which is longer than the limit anyway?
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I think the problem was people would create a whole new revision just to fix a single spelling error. This is apparently a big deal if you are a control freak.
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I can't wait for Wikipedia to roll this out. Oh wait they won't because non-reverted edits there are like cash money-- the more you have the more admin you get. Cha-ching!
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The six characters refers to the number of characters in the original post that were edited. I was submitting an edit for a different user's post.
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Could you then fix the typo and put in a "(EDIT: typo fix)" or something after the fix? Or do they use some other form of counting which characters were edited?
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Why would I shit all over the original post with shit markup that's not relevant to the answer? That's worse than leaving the typo.
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That makes sense, was just trying to figure out what the rules on editing things were over there.
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Beyond my simple understanding of sane, that's for sure.
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There are some other typo's in the text to be fixed, so you could get those 6 chars one way or another. But yeah, it's another helpful toasterbox.
Also, I don't know if you've got enough "credits" to have the editing privilege, if you were only "suggesting an edit", chances are that such a suggestion would get flagged as "oh no, you're changing code when you should be asking the original poster to fix it!". Yay for procedures!
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Add a comment explaining the change?
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Why would I do that, on the original post?
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Add a comment explaining the change?
Just put this in:
This is BS placeholder text because StackOverflow thinks it's abusive to fix single-character typos.
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I have no idea.
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Better yet, if it's anything like Dicsource, you could wrap it in html comment tags and it would both pass the edited character counter and not be visible in the end result
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six letters different
No, it says six characters.
A space is a character and IIRC the engine does treat it as one.
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to the rescue?
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Apparently you aren't allowed to fix METHOD CALL NAMES unless it's at least six letters different.
There you go, I've made the fix. It seems that people with a higher rep don't have that limitation...