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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.
It kind of goes against the culture of this place. The whole reason the community exists is because of SSC, which is know for having incredibly long posts. The length makes things more interesting, accurate, and entertaining.
In order to have meaningful discussion you often have to explain the models and assumptions about reality that lead to your main point.
If someone feels a post is too long and could be summarized, they could just respond to the original post with that feedback. Maybe the poster will incorporate that feedback and make shorter posts, or maybe it turns out the excess elaboration is necessary.
This place fills a niche where you can have long-from discussions on controversial issues and has rules that facilitate that purpose. There are other places to go if you want to have more succinct discussions. I don’t think this place should try to focus more on brevity just because that is what other places do. People come here because we aren’t like those other places.
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