With the large amount of troll posts within the Development Discussion category, Members of the forums should have a paragraph when creating a post, with images excluded. Adding attachments to post or adding “<\html>” (or any other frontend tags) bypasses the character limit if i remember correctly.
This will make it better for the category, and will atleast fight off the gibberish troll posts.
Making the limit higher just increases the number of superfluous invisible html tags that people will add. Completely ineffective.
Other than the fact that invisible characters (eg zero width spaces) and html tags will add characters without displaying anything (meaning you can have an essay that only looks like a short sentence) will easily bypass this…
You have to consider that length does not mean quality, if anything I daresay this will somehow lower the bar even further than the six feet under that it currently resides at. Look at the chatgpt spammers for example, they’re posting enormous walls of text that mean absolutely nothing and have effectively zero quality.
Consider if you were also 13 and wanted to create a random post but had to make 100 characters minimum, you’d simply just say “charrrrrrrrrrrs” in every single post as everyone else currently does.
I can see where you’re coming from for this idea but it needs a lot of rethinking.
Hey folks, please review: How to post a Feature Request
Focus on problems
Please focus on use cases and problems. Do not focus your request around a proposed solution (i.e. API suggestion, or a specific technical way to solve an issue). Our teams care about your use cases and the reasons behind those, rather than your proposed solution, as our product teams will work to find the best compromise between what is needed and what fits on the platform.
You can include your proposed solution as a minor note in your feature request, of course.
In this case, I think your problem is not “Development Discussion posts don’t have a 100 character limit”, but your issue is about the post quality in Development Discussion.
There are already some threads about the latter, so I recommend chiming into an existing feature request. Here’s an example of a thread that focuses more on the problem: Common Issues in Development Discussion