bots can just… type more, like jakburny said.
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What we mean by unnecessary posts…
Not really as like what they have said, then bots can type above 20 characs
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Most bots a from an ai so they usally only type 20 charc
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Most bots post links to places, and almost all links are above 20 characters alone.
Yes, if so then they could be programmed to send messages and links above 20 Characs, and as they have said, it’s not really for preventing bots, it’s to make the forums at least better since most posts would not be short and meaningless.
That is true but mostly
Bump, since this is still an annoying problem which serves no purpose.
In order to show that it servers no purpose, my next reply will completely avoid the 20 characters limit.
lol noob
Did they remove the limit?
No, I am just using invisible characters to bypass it, therefore proving that it’s absolutely useless.
I still think it’s useful.
Rather than just saying “yes” , “no” or “ok”
They"d have to elaborate on why they say so. They have to put more content into what they post and actually have to think about it.
That’s of course if people didn’t use stuff like (20 Characters)
Be grateful that this forum has only 20 characters.
I’ve been on another Discourse forum (it is the only way to speak with admins for the related game) and they have set up it to be 30 characters.
It’s not that of a problem, but that site just keeps hunting people that try to bypass it and it is a reportable offense. When the report gets approved, you get a DM from an Administrator with a canned reply saying something like “Hey there, your post has been removed due to the fact that you were bypassing the 30 character limit, which is set to avoid low effort posts”.
What’s worse is that they countlessly say that “warnings do not affect your account at all”, but when you get the inevitable 1000 year ban, the reason listed will be “bad post history”.
And what’s worse is that they banned all text like “30chars” or “30 characterssss” so you cannot post replies with these.
Annoying as heck, but I have been already 1000yr banned so it doesn’t matter…
Context: The post was a question whether it’s harder to build or script. How do they expect me to extend “script” to 30 characters?
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I guess you’re right, at least it’s not as bad as on there.
However, I feel like it just serves no purpose on this specific forum because sometimes short answers are the most appropriate ones.
Also, I believe there was a moderator avoiding the 20 character limit by typing “(20 characters)” after their message, which means that they don’t really agree with this rule either.
I don’t think I have ever had the problem since I tend to elaborate my answers. It’s a blessing and a curse. 
Either way I believe they made it this way to keep topics and responses more… detailed. For the chit chat there’s always discord, forums are more for debating, pointing things out, offer your insight on something specific. Long story short, I guess they made it to avoid simple responses like “lol” and prevent the avoidable “spam”.
As for the moderator, they don’t have to necessarily be against it as much as they were pointing out that they needed more text for that rule and didn’t have anything else to add to their message.
Just my opinion on things, I do believe it can be bothersome.
This is a stock forum from a forum software, it wasn’t custom coded. The installation package comes with certain settings preset, such as all the trust levels (and the ability for regulars to edit post titles) and a part of the initial settings is the 20 character limit. I guess they were just too lazy to remove this.
imagine
couldn’t be me
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ikr smh