I do respect the "this is the vision, take it or leave it" way of thinking, but there is a middle ground. Perhaps give one edit per 100 characters (or something

I do respect the "this is the vision, take it or leave it" way of thinking, but there is a middle ground. Perhaps give one edit per 100 characters (or something configurable). Put another way -- you don't have to make something entirely impossible to discourage a user from doing it. What other ways are there to reduce in-place editing? Just one idea: don't show what people are writing for more than a few seconds, and then gradually fade it away.