[image] Israel subcategory … (20 char min limit? Wtf?) It’s a default Discourse setting to avoid messages to be just “OK”, “Yes” or “I agree” and incentive more meaningful conversations. Message reactions (such as likes) can help express agreement without adding additional message noise to a t…

The @forums-governance team discussed about this and we decided to change the limit to 10. If there is a strong desire for more emojis, we can discuss it in a separate topic. Thank you all!

[image] Israel subcategory (20 char min limit? Wtf?) +1, ridiculous sggtfhutghjghjgf

@dieterdreist moving this to a new topic under #site-feedback to avoid noise on the category request. Adding some context from Discourse site about this (worth reading to form an opinion on pros and cons) [image] Why bother with the minimum character requirement for replies? ? …

They say it: “just add a little bit more”. This feature makes people add characters even if they have been able to say everything they wanted to say in a very concise way, just to climb the artificial limit.

Yes, sometimes. The good thing is that this is a configurable setting, if this turns up to be an issue for a lot of people in these forums, it can always be changed. I would advise to use it as it is for now, and see once there are more communities here using the forums to take an informed opinion,…

Maybe the message should contain something like “please use reactions if you simply want to show approval/disapproval”?

What is wrong with an answer: “Thank you, I agree”. Some people like this more than emoticons etc.

That’s ok if you prefer that. But ist’s 18 keyboard clicks longer than an emoji :laughing: and btw shorter than the actual minimum of 20.

That’s the whole point of this topic; or should I write: “Thank you, I agree##”?

As there haven‘t been indications so far that this feature has positive effects, 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?

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. [image] [UMFRAGE] Minimum length in postings Deutschland (Germany) Weil sich je…

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