Character minimum

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#1

I’ve been reading lots of posts and answers to posts, and I saw that in most cases, the 30 Characters minimum is annoying and only brings answers like: “Yes. (30 Characters)”.

I understand that the :heart: should be used in these situations, but usually the people will see It like a “I like your comment” and not like a yes. Maybe I’m wrong and the character minimum is very useful and important, so I would like to hear your thoughts.

  • The character minimum isn’t something necessary
  • The character minimum is necessary

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#2

It is very easy to extend your post to 30 characters to make a “yes” reply without making it look spammy.

For instance:

“Would the answer to 1 + 1 be 2?”
> Yes, the answer to 1 + 1 would be 2.

Stop trying to bypass 30 characters
#3

Sure, but what about all the people that aren’t doing that?

#4

If you think a reply is severely detrimental to the quality of a thread then you can flag it. But newer members usually don’t know any better so they’ll do the traditional “30 charssssss”

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#5

If your post doesn’t exceed 30 characters, it’s not contributive enough. ‘Yes’, ‘Thank you’ etc should be, as mentioned, represented by pressing the like button.

#6

That’s what liking is for… Pretty sure this is still considered spam. I like responses if I don’t have anything constructive to add or if, like here, they answer their own question.

An example of a better response there would be something like:

Yeah, it’s 2. You can check this yourself, though, just use a calculator or do something like print(1 + 1) in the command bar.

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Stop trying to bypass 30 characters
#7

See:

Giving a like isn’t always the same thing as a ‘yes’

#8

My opinion on this is 30 character minimum shouldn’t be removed. Most of the times it’s better for the post to be over 30 characters. Sometimes I see nothing wrong with bypassing it, for example if I would be asked “Where is that script? Is it in Workspace or where?” I would answer ServerScriptService <html><html><html><html><html><html><html><html> (that html spam becomes invisible when you post it).
In that situation I don’t want to think of any ways to stretch the post to be over 30 chars without bypassing, I just want to get issue solved as fast as possible and continue scripting.

TL;DR The 30 character minimum should stay, bypassing it is sometimes ok in my opinion.

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