Rejected Add a character limit to the forums.

Please add a character limit to posts on the forums to stop players leaving dumb-short and unconstructive responses.

 

No

 

Spoiler

your mom gay

 

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Or just...don't read it?

 

-1

 

Or don't give me unneccessary notifications that I have to open in regards to a thread I'm actively reading.

 

Or accept that people are lazy and will type out the shortest response they can. Let me be lazy.

 

This is a dumb-short and unconstructive response.
Pros:
- Memes
- Not a wall of text

Cons:
- Might not be very helpful
- Memes

This is a longer, in fact needlessly long response, with some constructive criticism, though it is written with run-on sentences and pointless elaboration on unimportant and barely-tangentially-related information. Not only is this response kind of overkill and probably won't satisfactorily get my point across to you, the recipient, but all the same, it is, in a sense, not needless at all, since it may at least serve as an example and for me, it is humorous to attempt saying effectively nothing with as many words as possible in the given context. Alas, a character limit already exists for these long-winded responses. Imposing a minimum character limit is inherently nonsensical and will likely just result in dumb-short and unconstructive responses with people talking shit about the fact that they need to pointlessly lengthen their messages. It is often possible to make something long shorter without losing meaning, but it's often not very helpful to make something short long as it just annoys people. E.g. "no u" vs "no I think it is more apt to use aforementioned to describe you, rather than myself".
Pros:
- You can make examples
- Can be helpful

Cons:
- Nobody reads it
- Nobody will ever love you

Spoiler: Pic related

TL;DR: Not a good idea

 

I believe this is a passive agressive way of getting back at yours truly, and sincerely I disagree. Although it may be good in some scenarios, it just makes life harder for others.
This is what I'd put if there was a character limit. It means exactly the same thing as what I put in your thread. The word "no".

 

I misread the post. Thought you wanted people to stop typing essays - which I do sometimes

However, short responses can be helpful, but in most cases, being helpful isn't a requirement. Maybe in subforums like Q&A and TTT Suggestions, but in Off Topic and General Discussion, it's pointless to limit responses

If you dont want to recieve notifications, turn them off. Nobody is forcing you to read a "-1" on your suggestions, which probably happens a lot

 

no

Spoiler: :)

I feel like you're just negative farming at this point with all these suggestions

 

10 chars nah

 

tbh I hate the people that drop a "-1" in the suggestions and then literally nothing else. They need to use the rating system if you they nothing at all to add. I have a small data that proves that these people are also "" people so we should stop them. Anyway though, -1

 

Use the rating system instead.

 

I still use that, it's just an addition. Plus I'd get in trouble for how many dumbs I'd put on posts.

 

Smh I +1 one of your suggestions and you lose your damn mind.

 

Heya,

This isn't really the direction we want to go in. If people are excessive with low-effort posts (read: shit posts) we'll step in, but sometimes a quick yes/no is pretty useful and efficient in getting the communities opinions on certain ideas (See: this thread).