The message you have entered is too short.

[apepi]

Okay I am tired of people just saying 1 word and then just saying "The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters." Or just putting like "the message was short" the main reason you have that is because it makes people provide postive information and feedback instead of one to 3 or 4 word that a waste of time for the people that are reading it and for the person who wrote it.Please make a rule for people who just put a few words then put "The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters." and infraction them.Their is already a rule on worded subjects why can their not be a word on one worded post?

Choose a suitable and clear subject line for your thread, no one-word subjects

[Abandon]

Report them for spam. That's pretty much what the Report button is for. If you are not bothering to report them, then you must not really care that much about it.

[Myrrar]

Report them for spam. That's pretty much what the Report button is for.

This. Report it and it will be taken care of. And just because they aren't banned or have a mod edit doesn't mean they weren't infracted =]

[Deleted]

report.
this message is to small.

[Taurenburger]

Ok
"The message you en..." Just kidding. It sure is annoying to have people saying one word and then doing that. I, however, post mostly in the fun stuff forums and there it's really annoying that you have to have atleast 10 chars. As it's just for fun, you don't need to have feedback on something someone said. But I guess it's not possible to remove that min-10-chars-in-a-post-requirement for the fun stuff forums?

[Valdearg]

I'm less annoyed that they reply with one word responses (assuming, of course, those answers are legitimate and constructive) than I am with people entering "The message you have entered is too short" to make up for it. It detracts from the post.

What people SHOULD be doing when responding with short answers is to follow it up with something shorter, so it doesn't detract.

Let's say someone asked if you liked puppies. I think the best response would be something like:

Yes
10 chars

Rather than:

Yes "The message you have entered is too short"

See which one's clearer?

[Abandon]

I'm less annoyed that they reply with one word responses (assuming, of course, those answers are legitimate and constructive) than I am with people entering "The message you have entered is too short" to make up for it. It detracts from the post.

What people SHOULD be doing when responding with short answers is to follow it up with something shorter, so it doesn't detract.

Let's say someone asked if you liked puppies. I think the best response would be something like:

Yes
10 chars

Rather than:

Yes "The message you have entered is too short"

See which one's clearer?

Or they could say "Yes, I do like puppies." and not have to make pointless spam to fill in the rest of their post.

It really isn't difficult to write a single sentence. There's no need for people to figure out ways to get around the character limit when they can just write something that actually contributes a little bit.

[Deleted]

Doesn't bother me, and why does this forum only allow you a certain amount of letters per post anyway? People get around it by doing what you made this thread about in the first place.

[Abandon]

Doesn't bother me, and why does this forum only allow you a certain amount of letters per post anyway? People get around it by doing what you made this thread about in the first place.

To prevent pointless spam posts of quoting someone else and saying "This", which do absolutely nothing other than take up space on the forums and push up peoples post counts. If people are not able to commit to an original thought they shouldn't be posting.

[Deleted]

report.
this message is to small.

Bwahahahah! this shows exactly what the problem with the "atleast 10 characters" system is.

Somtimes, less is more, even when it comes to words.

No seriously, not everything needs 10 words atleast, to be worthy as a "contribution".

[Neganova]

But what if the post is clearly a yes or no question, no additional details necessary?

Or, for example, a thread the other day asking if you prefer Crunchy or Creamy peanut butter. I had to add in extra words just to be able to post that I enjoy Creamy more.

Sometimes, saying "10chars" is really the only way to get a post through without adding useless, superfluous information.

EDIT: As someone above me so wisely stated: "Less is more."

[Fuzzzie]

But what if the post is clearly a yes or no question, no additional details necessary?

Or, for example, a thread the other day asking if you prefer Crunchy or Creamy peanut butter. I had to add in extra words just to be able to post that I enjoy Creamy more.

Exactly why I moved it to the Fun Stuff forum where spam isn't an issue and post counts are disabled

[Abandon]

But what if the post is clearly a yes or no question, no additional details necessary?

Or, for example, a thread the other day asking if you prefer Crunchy or Creamy peanut butter. I had to add in extra words just to be able to post that I enjoy Creamy more.

Sometimes, saying "10chars" is really the only way to get a post through without adding useless, superfluous information.

EDIT: As someone above me so wisely stated: "Less is more."

"Crunchy Peanut Butter."
"I prefer Smooth."
"I like Smooth Peanut Butter."
"Smooth is my favourite."

or taking directly from your quote:
"I enjoy Creamy more."

It is not difficult to type out a sentence with ten letters in it. I'm not even sure how that is considered an excuse. Ten letters should not be a big issue to be able to type out.

Also, how can you say that adding in useless, superfluous information like "10chars" is better than adding in "useless, superfluous information" like actual words?

I can agree that in simply fun topics where one word answers work, it can be restrictive, but you could always just make a poll for that, or as Fuzzzie showed, post it in one of the forums where they don't have the restriction.

[Sunshine]

Even for an opinion like "do you like puppies" or "crunchy vs. creamy", there's almost always some interesting reason behind it.

"Yes, because they're so cute."

"Crunchy, because it seems more natural / I enjoy the texture."

There are always cases where it makes sense to post something shorter, but in the majority of the cases, we want someone to think twice if the post is that short.

[Warod]

Exactly why I moved it to the Fun Stuff forum where spam isn't an issue and post counts are disabled

I always thought post counts were to remind people of how much time they wasted spamming. Why disable it in a spam forum?

[apepi]

But what if the post is clearly a yes or no question, no additional details necessary?

Or, for example, a thread the other day asking if you prefer Crunchy or Creamy peanut butter. I had to add in extra words just to be able to post that I enjoy Creamy more.

Sometimes, saying "10chars" is really the only way to get a post through without adding useless, superfluous information.

EDIT: As someone above me so wisely stated: "Less is more."

Most post not only ask if you would like crunchy or creamy peanut but ask why you like one over the other.So it would be,"I like creamy because it is smooth in my mouth".Or "I like crunchy/nutty peanut better because it gives it more of a real taste".

[TyloBedo]

No

[Valdearg]

"Crunchy Peanut Butter."
"I prefer Smooth."
"I like Smooth Peanut Butter."
"Smooth is my favourite."

or taking directly from your quote:
"I enjoy Creamy more."

It is not difficult to type out a sentence with ten letters in it. I'm not even sure how that is considered an excuse. Ten letters should not be a big issue to be able to type out.

Also, how can you say that adding in useless, superfluous information like "10chars" is better than adding in "useless, superfluous information" like actual words?

I can agree that in simply fun topics where one word answers work, it can be restrictive, but you could always just make a poll for that, or as Fuzzzie showed, post it in one of the forums where they don't have the restriction.

I'm the kind of person who likes to add description and explanation to my posts, but I can't fault people who don't. Sometimes short and sweet is the way to do it, and adding superfluous words just to convey the same message as a one word response is kind of stupid.

[Neganova]

"Crunchy Peanut Butter."
"I prefer Smooth."
"I like Smooth Peanut Butter."
"Smooth is my favourite."

or taking directly from your quote:
"I enjoy Creamy more."

It is not difficult to type out a sentence with ten letters in it. I'm not even sure how that is considered an excuse. Ten letters should not be a big issue to be able to type out.

Also, how can you say that adding in useless, superfluous information like "10chars" is better than adding in "useless, superfluous information" like actual words?

I can agree that in simply fun topics where one word answers work, it can be restrictive, but you could always just make a poll for that, or as Fuzzzie showed, post it in one of the forums where they don't have the restriction.

Sometimes, I suppose, I would just prefer to simply answer in one word. But I must concede to your points.

[apepi]

And for simple post for if you like this over that you can just make a poll and people who want to describe why they choose their answer.But simply saying that I like I like smooth peanut better when you already voted in the poll is just a waste of time.