Well, bless your heart!
Ooooooh, I’ve got one.
I dislike posters whose usernames are hard to spell or confusing.
Harpo, you beautiful crazy man.
I agree. But since this thread is about nitpicking, I’ll nitpick by saying that we’ve been on Discourse long enough that many of us have learned to pad short posts with HTML tags that satisfy Discourse’s minimum character count but are invisible. It’s a very small point, but it creates clean posts that are subtly more courteous because they don’t force the reader to read and then mentally discard redundant words. One common invisible padding is the string “ ”, but almost any formatting tags will work.
I think you’re asking a lot of posters who may have a more basic level of familiarity with HTML tags and who haven’t dealt with the post length limitation themselves often.
Speaking of quotes, why why why quote the entire post just above yours?? We just read it, we don’t need to read it again, dammit! If you want to respond to a specific comment, you can just quote that part. Sheesh!
It’s not meant to be cutesy. It’s not meant to be funny. It’s meant to be:
- enough letters
- unambiguous. No, you don’t have to wonder what i meant here.
- not something i need to think about.
If you want to suggest something shorter that no one will take as potentially having meaning, go for it. No, I’m not adding formatting tags, because I’m not memorizing a meaningless-to-me string, or worse, mistyping it and having something bizarre show up. But if you have a suggestion for 4-10 characters that are easy to type, easy to remember, and are unambiguously meaningless, please share.
OK. 
Smiles all have meaning. I want something that doesn’t have meaning.
There are hundreds of emojis, I’m sure one fits.
The minimum length is 5 characters. Really, what are the circumstances where you can’t think of something useful that’s 5+ characters? Give me a specific example and I’m sure I can come up with something.
And to be clear, I think the minimum length is dumb too. But as a reader, it’s jarring (and annoying) to have to skip over that. Whatever emoji or additional word you choose, I can guarantee you that it’s more appropriate and less disruptive than a misguided complaint about Discourse.
I don’t think is hard to remember – it’s just 6 characters, and “nbsp” is mnemonic for “non-breaking space”. But maybe that’s just me, although I’ve never done any HTML coding Alternatively, one or two break tags (<br>) after the text will harmlessly do the same thing. It means “break to a new line”, but if there’s nothing there to break, it does nothing, but keeps Discourse happy.
?
Put
<more words>
at the end of your post. Don’t forget the angle brackets. The board won’t complain and the words won’t be visible to bother anyone.
Like so:
^^^^
As per my last post above, since the minimum post length is 5 characters, a single-character post followed by a single <br> will suffice. That’s not hard to remember! 
For you. It is for others. Including me.
Anyway, i type that, and don’t intend it as a complaint. Just as a self-explanatory reason to pad the letters.
And yes, Ed could change the default minimum, but it’s kinda a nuisance.
There are 8 seasons of Jim Belushi’s According To Jim.
Fix and/or use your fucking Shift Key!
I’ll tell you a secret. You can make a pretty good guess when I’m posting from my laptop and when I’m posting from my phone. I swype on my phone. I don’t actually use keys, i just glide my finger around the letters and trust the algorithm to figure out what word I’m typing. That’s why i often don’t capitalize. And (what annoys me a hell of a lot more) why i often have “your” as a typo for “you”.
If I’m using an actually keyboard i have fewer bizarre typos, better capitalization, and worse spelling.
That wasn’t about you. I hit the quote thing on your post, then deleted it. Sorry.
Because sometimes the whole post is relevant to my reply. I generally do NOT like it when people reply without any indication of who they are replying to. By default I read posts without any quotes as replies to the OP. It always throws me for a loop if that’s not what it is, and I have to go back and reread the previous post.
And, on mobile, it’s far more tedious to do a partial reply. Sometimes I’ll wind up leaving parts I would have edited out on desktop. (Yes, I know you can highlight part of the post and then reply. But that’s also tedious on mobile.)
If what I need to reply to is really long, or I’m just making a quick joke, I may instead just use the @notation. But I do not like it at all if a post doesn’t tell you who it is replying to. So I try not to do it myself. If I write a naked post, it should work as a reply to the OP.