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@Apachez – We enforced a 20-character minimum length is to encourage members to provide detailed and valuable contributions. This measure helps discourage spam, unhelpful comments, maintaining the forum’s quality. However, a lower threshold might increase the need for manual moderation. Instances of short and non-substantive comments, such as ‘LOL,’ ‘Okay,’ and ‘Thanks!’ have been observed in other forums. Considering this, I’m proposing to lower the minimum to 10 characters. Let’s have a poll to gather input from other members.
Should we maintain the current 20-character requirement for topic titles and comments, or should we lower it to 10 characters?
Problem is that not even “Great thanks!” was accepted.
Personally I would go for allow 3 char posts and if there are users who spam posting just “OK!” to everything then those posts can get hidden or deleted.
Or at least 5 chars so a “Thanks” will be accepted (I know that “thanks” is technically 6 characters but still