This is my first feature request. LMK if i need to add any more details.
There’s been many times on the DevForum where making an entire reply to say “yes” or “no” in my own topic or elsewhere has been quite the hassle, so i’d like to propose quick-replies.
Similar to reactions on platforms like Instagram, you would be able to hit a “quick reply” button on posts allowing you to write a reply under the minimum character limit (not above 30). These replies would be shown in a list that you can access with the icon. These could be things like “What do you mean?” or “I’m having this problem too!”, and it would make things on the DevForum a lot easier. What are your thoughts on this idea?
I think a emoji reaction thing can work better, like being able to put a small emoji reaction to a comment might just be enough than typing a separate sentence.
Basically, not only being restricted by the heart/like button, but emoji reactions.
Pretty sure most moderators would explicitly state that this is what you should be using likes for and is kinda a big part of why the minimum character limit even exists in the first place.
The problem is that likes simply don’t tell a whole lot. When you need to give an actual answer that cannot be expressed as a like, you have to give a short reply
As an example, I searched for a reply under the character limit, and this is the first I found
Asking someone to go more in depth is a short reply, and liking the message without a reply would actually convey the opposite of what you want to ask
There are a lot of examples on the forum where users have to bypass the character limit, for valid reasons
I also don’t think emoji’s would fix the problem. Emoji reactions simply aren’t descriptive enough to replace many short replies, such as the above example. They would be however, a much cleaner solution, I have no idea how Quick-Replies would be implemented
The questions “wdym” and “I’m not quite sure I’m understanding what you mean correctly. Could you perhaps elaborate on your point a little more?” are equivalent to eachother.
None of these should be problems in the first place, especially for someone trying to understand feedback on how to improve his own plugin.
There are also development discussion posts that ask essentially yes/no questions where adding more detail to a reply achieves ABSOLUTELY nothing, it’s just a really stupid rule overall IMO.
“wdym” vs “I’m terribly sorry to interrupt, but I must confess that your previous statement has left me somewhat perplexed, and I find myself grappling with an overwhelming desire to seek clarification. Would you be so kind as to elaborate further on what you intended to convey, as I fear that the true meaning behind your words has either eluded me entirely or resides within a layer of nuance that I have not yet fully grasped? In essence—though I hesitate to oversimplify—could you please expound upon precisely what you meant by that?”
If they’re just yes/no questions then surely a poll would suffice in the OP for anyone who does not have anything more detailed to add onto the discussion though no?
Then surely the better solution in that case is to ask that moderators enforce such posts do create polls if they’re asking a simple yes/no question and add it to the rules? Unless emoji reactions were to be added, that seems much more ideal than allowing a post’s replies to be flooded with short “Yes” and “No” replies.
You can argue all you want about whether or not this or that situation warrants a short reply, but you should look at the big picture. A lot of these short replies could have been avoided by that or that manner, but some others cannot be
Even for the short replies that could be avoided, doing so it just annoying, and bypassing has became acceptable (nobody cares about it), and so forumers don’t follow that rule
If roblox wanted the forum users to make long replies exclusively, they wont achieve that with the character limit, it just doesn’t work. An easy alternative for forum users is needed to act as an alternative, that will fit their use case
I’m saying this in the scenario where roblox would want to change the current situation. The current situation is not that big of an issue, and it can be argued to just let things how they are right now and not care about it
icon. These could be things like “What do you mean?” or “I’m having this problem too!”, and it would make things on the DevForum a lot easier. What are your thoughts on this idea?
