Every once in a while I have the urge to make a small edit to an old answer of mine, but the nature of the edit does not seem to me to justify bumping the question to the front page. Is there some way to make minor edits to an answer without bumping it? If not, is there some community standard about when such edits are appropriate? (I wasn't able to find one, looking through old meta comments.)

In this case, I'm thinking of adding a small discussion about wild vs. tame ramification to this answer (http://mathoverflow.net/questions/51905/how-to-picture-mathbbc-p/51912#51912), which seems to me not to warrant bumping the question, but I've had this urge a few times in the past.

You protestest too much. Just make the edit. It would be annoying if you did this with 20 of your answers, but for one, don't worry so much.

For what it's worth, I'm guessing the logic is this: if I can edit a question without bumping it. then I can ask a valid question, let people answer, leave it for a while, and then add an expletive or a derogatory comment about someone, not bump it, and then leave it there giggling whilst no-one else notices for ages. But if everything I do bumps it then someone will notice pretty darn quick that I've done something stupid, and something will be done about it (question will be flagged for moderator attention).

I can see the logic!

@Ben: even better, yes.

@DL: I agree with Ben: just make the edit. If your edit causes someone else to add something of some worth then you'll be pleased it was bumped. If no-one else has anything to add then it will quickly disappear and no harm done. The annoying thing is when a "dull" question gets bumped daily for several days by e.g. the OP or people adding answers that have already been said; your prudent approach of waiting before editing will probably avoid this.