Quote Originally Posted by Ransu View Post
I don't understand this feature. It seems extremely counter intuitive of the point of a forum and just pushes people to go to unofficial places like discord or reddit. You can't have any real conversations here when you have to pick and choose what you post/reply to.
SE views the forums as a means to give feedback more than build a community.

So, post limits makes sense in their mind because it limits spam (nevermind it's not been an issue for a long time) and you don't need many posts to say "I think X about Y."

Of course, it falls short if you actually have an enjoyable chat back and forth in a hangout thread or otherwise participate in something more community-focused, but what kind of weird person would use the forums for that?