The Minimum Character Limit is dead*

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

I'm still mad that they lowered the Life Advice character limit as well, and my grievances have not been addressed.

 

Also, people should get negative points for all the limit dodging points they got while the limit was higher.

[NightOwl 912]

Thank you very much! I really appreciate this guys . 

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,592]

I am going to give a bit more of an opinion here. I seen what the intention was with the limit and I can kinda understand its purpose, but the reason why I didn't like it, is because not every conversation has to be some super intellectual one. Sometimes things are just casual. It really annoyed me before I would respond to a very simple thread that still had some weight to it and I would have to beef up the post pointlessly. In that case, the conversation wasn't going to be improved by making my post longer, so it didn't serve much purpose. Also, it supposedly could prevent spammers. Well, those people can still be reported accordingly if that happens.

 

So yeah, this is something I like, as you can see. Now, the next thing to get the axe should be brohoofs in the Cloudsdale Colosseum forums.

[UltimateGhost3 498]

thanks!!! we all thank you, you made things alot easier for all of us to post!!! thanks!!!!

[GhostPony750 959]

What a great new! But I always end up writing more than 100 words anyway, I guess I'm used to this character limit lol.

 

I can now post short ideas and comments, without adding useless info - epic.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Seems good to me, there's always's those times when the question is so simple you can't quite reach the full 100. 

Edited November 27, 2013 by Shoboni

[Emperor Posh 360]

We hate it,  you hate it, everyone hates it. So today I'm announcing that the minimum character limit is practically dead. All forums with the exception of three now have a minimum of 20 characters, which should be pretty damn hard to not reach.

 

The three forums that are not exempt from this change and remain how they were are Roleplay (200), Advanced Roleplay (800), and Debate Pit (100).

 

Just remember if your post is off-topic, extremely low quality or needlessly shor we're still going to penalize it under off-topic this new change isn't a green signal to spam the forums.

 

Also something to note is that the Character Minimum Violation still exists and will be handed out when needed if you somehow manage to not hit it or hit the limit in a forum where it is more of a problem.

 

Now, if you don't mind. I'm going to go back and hide in my cave.

 

NO! NO! NO! NO! The ingenuity of posts has now been killed. I loved the limit, it made you put thought into your posts, not just putting up something off the top of your head that really had no meaning to it other than the fact of making a post for the sake of posting. The character limit made these forums unique from many other forums and was probably one of my most favorited feature on the forums and now...... now it has been diminished to be almost non existent. I genially enjoyed the fact that everyone had to have at the minimum 100 characters in their posts, it made posts more individuated. Oh well...... not much I can do about this as an individual. Disappointing.

Edited December 3, 2013 by Emperor Posh

[Twila Starshimmer 172]

I guess I came along at the right time then? Woot! 

[Legacy Dash 439]

Yay!

I actually think having such a high character limit lowers post quality, forcing people to rave on about mumble jumble in their posts.

20 is a much better limit.

 

Thanks Lavo.

[Mr Dash 1,820]

I never had any issues reaching the limit, but for some, it could be difficult. It's nice that the limit has been lowered, but there's no reason why the new limit should be in cloudsdale colosseum. At least in the forum games. I feel like I'm going to get penalized for making a quick comment in the forum games. I probably won't since nothing important goes on there, but I still feel like I could be penalized. Other than that, I have no problems with this change.

[Dddrgn 450]

woah, I never had any issues with the character limit, passed it easily in almost every single post... welll, I'll just keep posting as I have been.

[SasQ 1,376]

Yay! Great to hear it!

Usually I don't have any trouble with coming up with lots of words, much more than the character limit (thousands of characters). But there were these times when I just wanted to add two bits here and there, or post some link relevant to the post of someone else, or make a short (but still humorous) comment, but I COULDN'T, due to the character limit ;-P You will never know what could I have to say, because when I couldn't get past the limit, I didn't want to just yap some random stuff to get it around, so I was just giving up.

Lowering the character limit to 20 will definitely help the case, but it's not the ultimate solution yet, I guess. Because there are still cases where 20 would be too much. So why don't just turn off the limit at all, and leave it to the reporting mechanism? When someone wants to fluff talk, he/she will do it nevertheless, no matter the character limit. I've seen dumb posts with more than 100 characters before, so the whole idea of character limit is irrelevant to the case. It's the report mechanism which is better suited for this job.

 

I also was always wondering how some peeps were able to pass around the character limit: their posts were very short (definitely shorter than 100 characters), and their ranks were also quite low, but somehow they were there, as if the limit weren't apply to them at all. Any ideas how it were possible?

Edited November 17, 2013 by SasQ

[Crispy 5,563]

Good.  Though I'd gotten pretty good at bullshitting 100 characters, it's a welcome change.

[Twiliscael 3,960]

Quite neutral to this. It doesn't really make much of a difference, since I tend to type at least 100 characters into all of my posts.

 

Good to see that they're still implemented in the Roleplay World though, I think we still do need that.

[Harmonic Revelations 8,835]

It's finally dead!

 

Actual footage of the death of the minimum character limit;

[Woohoo 34,248]

The ridiculously high character limit is dead. All I can say is... Good Riddance!!

[Harmonic Revelations 8,835]

NO! NO! NO! NO! The ingenuity of posts has now been killed. I loved the limit, it made you put thought into your posts, not just putting up something off the top of your head that really had no meaning to it other than the fact of making a post for the sake of posting. The character limit made these forums unique from many other forums and was probably one of my most favorited feature on the forums and now...... now it has been diminished to be almost non existent. I genially enjoyed the fact that everyone had to have at the minimum 100 characters in their posts, it made posts more individuated. Oh well...... not much I can do about this as an individual. Disappointing.

Did you even read the second half of Lavo's post?

[Emperor Posh 360]

Did you even read the second half of Lavo's post?

Yes I did, and all I have to say to that is good luck because you are not going to get them all. I think the character limit should have been set to 50 instead of 20. 

Edited December 3, 2013 by Emperor Posh

[Rough Pathway 157]

I actually liked the 100 character limit. In some sections of the forums it was a little annoying, but otherwise I liked it. Personally, I think the character limit should be 50 for most parts of the forums. Its not too low or too high. I liked the fact that people had to spend more time on their posts, and I thought that the character limit made most posts higher quality. Sometimes it was hard to reach the character limit but I feel like 20 is too low. 100 was a bit high, so I think 50 is good. Regardless, most of the time I'm still going to write long posts since I like it better that way.

[CT-1138 3,182]

Thank Celestia! Can't tell you how many times I've been unable to reply to threads because I couldn't meet the character limit.

[Mand'alor Dash 2,224]

I personally really liked the character limit. 100 characters isn't really high enough of a minimum to affect anyone as long as they have something even remotely meaningful to say, and it discouraged people from making posts that were smaller than tweets.

 

To put this into perspective, that bit I just wrote above was 210 characters. putting just half of that into the reply box isn't that hard.

[Galen 1,354]

I like this change overall, but why was the Cloudsdale Coliseum also affected by this? Some threads really don't require any character limit, such as "what are you listening to." Seeing as it's largely a spam forum, I don't see why that forum in particular should also be affected. If the concern is the increase in post count, isn't it possible to disable post count on that forum? I kinda liked the Coliseum better without any limit.

Edited November 17, 2013 by ~Chaotic Freedan~

[Doge 34]

A bit late, but it's better than the 100 limit.

 

35 is relatively reasonable, though.

[Summer Greetings 237]

That's weird. On my phone the character limit says it's 50 minimum.

[Mutemutt 773]

We'll see how things play out, but right now I'm liking the change. It's not like I was constantly running into the character limit but there were enough times where I had to awkwardly pad out my post to fill the requirements to where it became a tad bit annoying.