User blog comment:Kirkburn/VisualEditor - the past, present and future/@comment-13301-20140604093909/@comment-452-20140604151320

It is good to know that you're not happy with it, and I hope that means you're intending to resolve the "spaces removed" issue. It's weird that it's not happening on wikipedia though.

I think that the fact that the spaces are being removed is a symptom of a larger problem with how the VE works, and the same problem may cause other currently-unknown changes, so it's always best to find and fix the root problem, even if you can only currently see minor symptoms. (Note: I'm not a doctor.)

I guess it all comes down to "Should all changes be intentional changes by the user?"

I believe they should, and that users are responsible for the edits they make, and that unintentional changes made by the VE undermine that.

On the other hand, if making changes on behalf of the user is okay, then I have a javascript "spellcheck" script which I would very much like to enable for all users but haven't because I assumed that it was against the TOU to force people to make changes they did not desire to make.

edit: Also, adding and removing spaces makes it more difficult to review diffs, and may lead to an increase in people getting away with "removing a single space in a paragraph" vandalism.