I wish the comments didn't have a lower bound for characters.Many times all I want to say is "yes". Can someone explain me what is the purpose of this l.b.?
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$\begingroup$ I'm sure this has been asked (and answered) before. The closest thing I could find was meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/4284/… $\endgroup$– Gerry MyersonCommented Mar 1, 2014 at 0:47
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$\begingroup$ Apropos of tag: If you are asking for an explanation of purpose, then this is support or maybe discussion. If you were asking for the limit to be changed or removed, that would be a feature request. $\endgroup$– user127096Commented Mar 1, 2014 at 4:38
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This is the site humbly suggesting you to use more characters. I'd like to also encourage you to do this. And also to consider the following observations:
- Users who habitually type things like "n-mfld", "height fcn", "cohomol", "sing. coho", " Lebesgue meas."... are making the site harder to use for others: these abbreviated keywords will not come up in search.
- Users who habitually omit punctuation and ignore capitalization rules are making the site look less professional.
- Users who habitually post incomplete questions, lacking in explanation of notation and terms in the question, are wasting the time of those who read and try to answer the question.
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Situations warranting a simple "yes" or "no" exist, but they should be in the extreme minority. Discussions here should be more in depth than that. Comments are not a chat room. The limit exists to remind users to write good content, and the inconvenience of being unable to leave short comments pales, in my view, to a potential decrease in overall quality due to its removal.
answered Mar 1, 2014 at 5:28
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$\begingroup$ Yes. $\hphantom{Sorry, could not resist.}$ $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 1, 2014 at 15:04