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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 11, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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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.

Length is sometimes a problem but readability often goes down with length as well and in turn that becomes a bigger problem. More paragraphs, more linebreaks, breaking down lists that might be in paragraph form into a numbered/dots list with a new line for each item: sure we all write too much, except maybe the_nybbler, but sometimes the length is necessary and with that in mind I think things can be long without being unreadably long.