CAN I POST SOMETHING LESS THAN 30 CHARACTERS?!??!?!? :):)
No.
This is tirany.
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30 characters
30 characters
30 characters
@mq003at still spamâŚ
Doesnât improve the quality of postsâŚ
Is this comment helpful in some way? Are you adding to the conversation? Thatâs the point of the minimum character count, and the more crappy posts I see like this, the less likely that minimum is going to get changed.
Thereâs actually a way Iâve found to post replies with less than 30 characters.
The entire point of that post is that everybody and their mother just puts that sentence behind a one linerâŚ
The idea behind a character limit isnât bad in general but you need something to stop people from posting the phrase character limit which they have copied so they can copy paste it every 5 secondsâŚ
As Iâve said elsewhere, itâs human nature to try to get around restrictions. No one expects it to thwart a determined effort to shitpost. The idea is that itâs supposed to encourage you to think twice about doing so, otherwise there wouldnât be a character limit in the first place.
No sir, this is tyranny.
30 characters
I have to come back to the 1th grade of english.
my bad.
Iâm hoping the irony in you saying 1th instead of 1st was intentional. Iâm here if you need any more tips.
Pls help me what is happening to me.
Mental retardation? joke joke joke
Are you 70+ by any chance?
i doânt known.
okay this was intentional.
I think itâs good to keep things like âno uâ, âlolâ, âk denâ, etc. at bay but sometimes folks donât have a paragraph of opinion and just wanted to add something to the discussion. Something like âI agree and also____â but without âI agree but also____ because sometimes itâs____ and ____â. Word limit is good making me wonder why I never thought about it for discord server but we could all benefit from it being a little less.
I donât know. Considering a majority of words are an average of four letters, plus spaces and punctuation, you really only need a mediocre six-word sentence.
30 characters is really very little. I think spaces are counted, even. The part in blue is enough. And if spaces arenât counted, the italicized part is enough. No one should have a problem hitting that.
Questions do not need 30 characters. I might want to ask someone something that doesnât have to be dragged out into a short story. âHow did that happen?â, âwhat do you mean?â, âwhat did he say?â, âwhen did it happenâ and so on.
I mean, those are all really close to 30 characters, so adding a word or two will get you there. But more importantly, I think those are all kind of vagueâŚ
Assuming an OP didnât explain something well enough so that people have to ask questions to get the point, then OP might not know what that personâs confusion is really about. It happens to me a lot. If Iâm rambling a bit, and say something unclear, and then someone asks me âWhat do you mean?â my response isnât usually âOh. I mean Xâ and they say âgreat! I get what you were saying now!â My response is usually âwhat do you mean, âwhat do I meanâ? What part am I not explaining well enough?â And then they have to clarify. Itâs a back-and-forth that could be avoided if people take a few extra seconds to develop their question more. Instead of âWhat do you mean?â itâd be better to ask âWhat do you mean by ____? Iâm not understanding how that connects to ____.â
Likewise:
âHow did that happen? [X looks unbelievable/wild/zany/ridiculous].â
âWhat did he say? [about X/Did he respond yet/Was it what you hoped]â
"When did it happen? [It matters because X happened ____, so if earlier, then ____]"
or something, I donât know, could be anything. As long as the question explains why youâre asking it, then itâs a good question. If it doesnât explain why itâs being asked, then it could be a better question.
If this were just talking, then yeah, youâre right, questions can be quick and snappy, because the back-and-forth of figuring out what everyone is actually saying goes fast. But when weâre all writing, I think itâs better to require a little more care.
edit to add: I say all that, but it seems like people are having a decent time with the min limit so far. If people are having problems, they get around it with a few extra characters or an emoji or something. The reminder to think about it is most important, to me.