Seriously, whenever we need to make a short and simple reply to something, we all have to tack on extra words to make the 50 character limit. This usually either reduces the quality of the original text, or leads to them posting “50 character limit” once or twice at the bottom of their post. All I have seen this do is lower the quality of the devforums, and even if it has a purpose, people just bypass it anyways!
TL;DR: There’s really no point to the 50 character limit.
There are always more characters you can add to a post.
It’s pretty likely that if your post is less than 50 characters, the message you’re trying to send should be re-evaluated.
However, if you can provide some use cases for removing or lowering the limit, we will definitely consider your suggestion.
Well, you can just like the post. That’s not the only reason. If you say, “Oh yeah, what about bla bla bla.” It’s also good because you aren’t being clear, it reminds you that,
There could be some other reasons. I’m sorry, but I kindly disagree with you.
what do you mean by this? Are you trying to say that fewer people go on the dev Fourms because of the 50- Character Limit? If so, I also kindly disagree.
I’m saying that people just put “50 character limit” on their posts to bypass the limit, and all it really does is waste reading time. You could say that the time lost is negligible, but it’s really annoying reading it for the 250th time.
Many people put it as:
50characterlimit50characterlimit
To ignore this, you could tell by the length of the sentence, that the hidden text would say,
50characterlimit50characterlimit
I’ve never seen people use it that way, I’ve just seen people say “50 character limit” before. If many people use your method, and many people use other methods, it makes it practically impossible to tell what is behind the spoiler.
Just tell by the length of the sentence. Something like:
Yeah! But what about that?
50characterlimit
You would know what’s under the spoiler, just tell by length.
What if you need to give feedback on something, or have a below fifty character message that needs to be said?
Example: “IMO, change the GUI to make it more colorful.”
This is a perfectly fine feedback message, but it would get removed by the fifty character limit. I heavily doubt any post that is actually meaningful would be under 25 characters, but under 50 is a possibility.
If you want to keep the 50 character limit anyways, enforce it. Everyone just puts “50 character limit” anyways.
Example:
RandomPoster: Wow, that’s epic
50 character limit
50 character limit
Some meaningful things can be hidden under short spoilers.
Roblox deleted all your accounts!
50characterlimit50characterlimit
I think this is an overstatement. Though, if you see anyone trying to find ways around the rules, you should flag it. There are quite a few users on the forum now and the moderation team is not big enough to read everything, so they are bound to miss some posts. Flagging a post helps bringing it to their attention.
If something was meaningful, it wouldn’t be under a spoiler.
What makes you think they don’t enforce it? Putting “50 character limit” in your post is undesirable and we’ve been editing posts + sending feedback if people do this.
I always flag these but mods never take them down, (presumably) because you don’t punish users who do this.
Posts like [redacted] have been up for hours ( and have been flagged ), yet are still up.
Dealt with and sent feedback to the user. Any others you’ve seen? (Please DM me, no name-and-shaming in public)
You have to have patience. There are many people who do the same thing. And there aren’t a lot of active people who can take them down quickly. It takes times. I would agree if you said, a number of days instead of hours. In none of my post, I didn’t mean to offended you, sorry if any came off rude.
Is the only place where “this is great” or “thanks” comments are allowed the #public:public-updates-announcements, or are posts like those restricted in this category too?
A lot of time devs ask for feedback on a new feature. Now, I can’t really say “this will help in my development, thanks” is important feedback, but it is “feedback” nonetheless. To be completely honest, hearts don’t express thankfulness enough (especially for a feature like the revamped toolbox). (Again this is all my opinion and this only applies to posts in #public:public-updates-announcements; thanks for understanding.)
That content is basically the equivalent of a Like, though. You should preferably only post when there is significant on-topic content to add (not for tagging your name onto a chain).
If you’re under the 50 character limit then its probably either not worth posting or way to vague. Now for the feedback thing for example if you’re just saying “Looks great!” that can also be told by putting a 
on the post or even saying “Thanks for the feedback 
” you could also say that by putting a . So overall I am going to have to say the 50 character limit should stay as it also prevents spammers.
Short comments are literally not appropriate to place out, as it floods the topics with unnecessary posts(which can be instead done through either or PMs for extended discussions).
Also avoids spam or ‘too vague’ posts that contain little to completely out of context.
Personally, this is not a nuisance for me to deal with. It just takes time and patience to plan your post properly before eventually replying to the topic.
I think the 50 character limit should stay as well I have no problem with making a more constructive response. I think a very short response will likely not be informative enough to help someone with something.