Board Thread:Consensus track/@comment-7153552-20130927224851/@comment-3523404-20131204053646

DarthOrc wrote: Deyvid Petteys wrote:

DarthOrc wrote: So that's why our count is as high as it is (we only do a page or so at a session). What happens if our edit (removing vandalism, for example) shortens the page? Undoing or rollingback an edit is automatically flagged as a minor edit and accumulates one point. If you do not use those features, the edit tally is normal.

OK, but what if we rewrite a page removing duplication, etc., resulting in a shorter page?

Adding and subtracting characters counts equally. It doesn't detect the difference between removing and adding content; it only gauges the number of changed characters.