Is there a way to edit a question (or answer) without bumping it?

Question

Whenever I edit a question or answer, the question gets bumped. In other words it appears at the top of the list. Sometimes I just want to make an edit without having it pushed up to the top of the queue.

Is there an option somewhere that I'm missing that would allow me to do that? Sometimes I'm a bit reluctant to make minor edits on poorly worded - and often old - questions, realizing that it will push them to the top of the list.

I think SE should provide a this-is-a-minor-edit checkbox on the edit page.

When checked, it would update the date of last modification as it does now. However, behind the scenes SE should implement a "date of last major modification" and have that used to sort the questions. When someone performs an edit without checking the checkbox, both the last-modification date and the last-major-modification date would be updated. If the checkbox is checked, only the last-modification date would be updated.

The benefit of this would be major cleanup, or tagging campaigns would not cause the edited posts to rise to the top of the queue. The last-modification date displayed beneath a post would show when it was last modified, even if the modification was minor.

Answer 1

There is an interesting answer as a Comment on one of the Answers to Is there a way to edit a question without bumping it to the front page? over at Meta StackOverflow which is from @JeffAttwood who says:

there is zero way to do this that doesn't involve hidden abuse and sweeping changes under the rug. The answer is right in front of you: click "Questions" instead of browsing the home page, if you know you want to avoid recent changes. In other words, YOU need to opt out of viewing changes for YOU, rather than dictating it for all other users.

After landing on my own User page, I always click Questions or more often Unanswered to find the questions likely to interest me and so I never see "bumping issues".

I am assuming now that others must instead often land here at the home/front page to see "bumping" as an issue.

Answer 2

As pointed by Mapperz, Shog's answer on:

Is there a way to edit a question without bumping it to the front page?

says there is no way to edit without bumping the question (despite he says also that not all edits go to the front page).

If you search on MSO by [editing] bumping is:question one will see a lot of interesting threads tagged as feature-request with suggestions to avoid bumping in some situations of minor edits, retags and other.

One suggestion I can think of would be to separate the active tab in two groups.

For example:

1. New answers (maybe including when a answer is accepted too).
2. Edits on questions and existing answers and retags.