This BS has to go. When playing hangman, it’s an absolute waste of time and effort to type anything other than, eg, “Y?” (or “Y…?” to meet the five-character rule). There’ve been many other cases where I’ve received this message. And the infuriating thing about it is that posting anyway is not an option – the only thing one can do is click on “OK” and then add pointless rubbish to the post. What [expletive deleted] idiot thought this would be a good idea?
And no, this topic is NOT similar to “Today was very productive, yet also a complete waste of time” or to “Curse you Google! I can no longer type goog…goo…goggles!”
Okay couldn’t post just Y? because it needed 5 characters, but adding 4 more characters it went through with no error even though it wasn’t a complete sentence. Haven’t seen the thing you’re talking about and don’t know how to trigger it.
It wasn’t until the post after yours that someone mentioned a minimum character requirement that I wasn’t familiar with, that you didn’t mention in the OP. And, as someone that’s never used a discourse board before this, it wasn’t obvious to me that you were talking about Discourse. And the quote, lacking context, didn’t mean anything to me, especially since it’s not a link to another thread where I might have figured out what you were talking about.
A simple mention of the minimum character length that the board is enforcing would have been helpful, at least for me.
However, upon mentioning that I was confused, I got:
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Maybe I missed something in the OP, maybe I didn’t and other people are confused as well. I don’t understand the push back.
He did mention the 5 character rule in passing. However his main complaint seems to be that Discourse will enforce a sentence structure if it thinks you are not speaking in sentences, and will then not allow the post until corrected. I have not experienced this.
