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Q&A Get rid of minimum character requirements

Prevent zero only I'm comfortable with preventing users from posting zero character comments and posts. I agree there are times when insisting on 15 characters is unhelpful. For comments, I se...

posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2023-07-08T22:10:17Z (10 months ago)
## Prevent zero only
- I'm comfortable with preventing users from posting zero character comments and posts.
- I agree there are times when insisting on 15 characters is unhelpful.
- For comments, I see no reason to make the minimum higher than 1.
- For posts, I'd expect them to be longer but 15 is arbitrary so why not have 1 and let users flag problematic posts?

There may be some other settings where 1 is not appropriate, but I can't think of a reason not to use 1 for comments and posts.