Post Character Limit

[LandricFrey]

If nothing else, I see the character limit as a guideline for short and to the point posts; which we should all strive for. I mean, who really wants to read a novel of a post that just turns out to be someone's rant that never had a point to begin with? That's time you can never get back.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

If nothing else, I see the character limit as a guideline for short and to the point posts; which we should all strive for. I mean, who really wants to read a novel of a post that just turns out to be someone's rant that never had a point to begin with? That's time you can never get back.

I don't really agree with that. Not everything can or should always be smooshed into a TL;DR version.

[LandricFrey]

I don't really agree with that. Not everything can or should always be smooshed into a TL;DR version.

I never said everything should. It's almost practice to see how tight you can get your writing. I've gone way over a few times as well.

[Moonleg]

If nothing else, I see the character limit as a guideline for short and to the point posts; which we should all strive for. I mean, who really wants to read a novel of a post that just turns out to be someone's rant that never had a point to begin with? That's time you can never get back.

You can usually identify rants from being incoherent to start with, as well as looking at the thread title.

Keeping people from expressing themselves fully, in as many words as they deem is needed, is borderline censorship - and just look at stuff like Twitter, how fights and misunderstandings happen just because people can't actually express themselves the way they want to. Or in some cases, have to.

I am sorry if you consider 1001 characters a 'novel', but to some of us that is a below-average message length when we want to express ourselves clearly rather than so to-the-point that the actual point is lost.