Although I am a hypocrite for saying this, because of my past post where I myself used a similar trick, I feel like positive feedback is a good thing for a simple agreement.
Which is needed how often?
All the time, someone asks a question where the answer is simple YES
I'd be willing to wager money that you can't find 15 legitimate threads where that is the case, without an exuberant amount of searching.
for a joke is posted where it is simply Lol!, and I see all the time people posting( Ten characters..) and so on just to make the limit. Someone asks, "hey did you get that from amazon?"
"Yes, ten letters later ".
Maybe this is a generational gap kind of thing. What's the value add of a comment "lol"? The person who made the joke posted it because it was a joke, assuming they're going to get some lols. But, if every single person that laughed at it posted "lol", how full of shit posts would this forum become? We're well on our way already with "LOL (tencharacters)" posts. Really? You had to post lol? Is this facebook? No, we're not trying to discourage social interaction, but at the same time posts like that tend to drive traffic away. If you're okay with that, then I'm not okay with you. Go ahead and test me on this too.
Earlier, biker answered a question to someone else with a simple yes, and I was confused for at least 10 minutes because he wrote " Yes. ( Tencharacters ) ". It is very annoying and I agree with draygoes, it should be moved down to at least 3 characters. For words such as: "No." ( adding the DOT as a character making 3 ) "Yes", " Lol" etc. My 2 cents. Agreed with Draygoes.
Yea that's right.
Yes, you are correct
@NikonGuy; Yes!
There is more than one way to skin a cat if absolutely necessary (which I believe was covered in depth before)
There's no point having a character limit if it's not enforced properly though, it's a bit of a pointless rule to have in place if it's not. Likewise, by enforcing the rule with warnings, I can see that it may annoy people, and annoyed people just don't come back
it's not a rule
If there was a rule about character count, that would be unenforceable. I'm sure as hell not going around counting.
it's an anti-spam measure
It's a simple block to prevent a very specific kind of spam, that's it. We're not saying you can't open your mouth if you don't have much to say (although I've been lobbying for it), we're just trying to keep the bots out.
Now,
Given the above round and round, I still find it curious that this continues to be an issue. The last time this thread was hot, it ended with "Oh, I can say lol and just hide the ten characters... I'm okay with that because of how rare we do this."
Now we bring it back up a month or two later because it's Soooooo inconvenient? Again, there are few times when "Yes", and "Lol" are the answer anyone was looking for. At this point, I'm with Seti in raising it, and maybe even just having every post shorter than ten characters go into review. That way we can just delete the shit ones and keep the ever so common legitimate "Yes"'s