Minimum post length

[Mammi71 (One feature, Six mappers and still More ways to map it)]

According to a survey in the German forum, 80 % of the participants are in favour of a reduction of the minimum number of characters and still a good half are in favour of a de facto abolition.

[UMFRAGE] Minimum length in postings

Weil sich jetzt offensichtlich schon mehrere an der Minimum Zeichenzahl gestört haben: scheinbar lässt sich auch diese Option einstellen. Ich hatte da an anderer Stelle bereits geschrieben: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/minimum-post-length/2443/7?u=mammi71 Frage: was halte Ihr denn für sinnvoll? (PS: streicht das “unbedingt” aus der ersten Frage gedanklich, ist etwas zu reißerisch, die Umfrage selbst kann ich nicht mehr ändern) poll

I see the minimum character length the same way as @dieterdreist:

• a proof that this improves communication has not been provided so far
• in the old forum without minimum character length I could not observe any disadvantages
• it prevents short polite thank-yous, which is rather detrimental to good communication.
• emojis are only a conditionally suitable substitute for it
• it encourages the typing of meaningless characters to meet the minimum character length requirement
• the latter leads to reports to the moderators (flag the post) of such postings for circumventing the forum rules.

@dieterdreist

my suggestion would be to turn it off immediately. Or maybe make it a setting for every category and have local communities decide for themselves, if this is possible?

PS: Übersetzung mit Deepl