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I know this goes against the spirit and practice of the motte, but is there a case for lowering the character limit in each comment to encourage brevity? Not to twitter levels or anything, maybe 5000 or so. I find myself writing long posts that people understandably skim. I find myself skimming other people's long posts. Oftentimes the meaning of a post can rely heavily on just a few words, words that people miss in a haystack full of other words.
I'm not sure if a character limit is an ideal solution, but I think there would be meta benefits (for the reader, the writer, and the overall forum) if ONE post were about ONE thing.
Similar to the idea of a code smell, where its a sign of something going wrong somewhere if a function takes in too many arguments, I think its a sign of some kind of inequilibria of incentives or whatever if a post takes on too many topics. (This is ignoring blatant wordcount padding to justify the "Effort post")
My idea is that if the above could be "enforced" then the maximum number of things that could be discussed would be discussed. Given that it's not exactly uncommon for people to single out a specific part of a post.
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