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I like the idea, and I was going to suggest it myself.

However, I also understand the concerns of @trichoplax about the risk of abuse, e.g. "sneaky edits" that could fly under the radar.


I think a nice tradeoff solution would be IMO:

1. Allow minor edit checkbox only for people that have the edit privilege, just to filter out users that haven't shown some pattern of responsible editing behavior. In other words, suggested edits will always be bumped (maybe let the people authorizing the edit to choose whether the edit warrants a bump?).


2. For people doing an edit on their own posts and without the edit privilege, enable the checkbox, but change the behavior: the checkbox doesn't suppress bumping, *it delays it until some time has passed **from the latest edit** (say 1h)*, so that people that make a flurry of small edits to their own posts can do that without multiple bumps. All the edits are "bumped together" once that time has elapsed *from the last edit in the series*.  Moreover, to avoid people gaming the system by continuously editing the post to postpone a bump forever, bump the post anyway after some other given time (say a day).


3. Provide a new visualization option for posts, e.g. `show minor edits`, so that people wanting to check what's happening "down in the noise" can do that. In other words, the "minor edit" checkbox doesn't prevent the edit to be discovered by people wanting to check that out.
In this way mods could periodically check the posts with minor edits just to see if something shady is going on.

4. To avoid careless bumping by privileged users, check the checkbox by default if the user hasn't changed much of the post, and also remind them they are going to perform a "minor edit" with some visual cue. In this way, a major edit is bumped unless the user wants otherwise, whereas a minor edit is not bumped, unless the user wants otherwise.

Note that in my idea the final choice is always on the (privileged) user (no forced choices). The system just lends a hand and **suggests** the most logical/common behavior (focus on personal responsibility here).