Hey guys, I am interesting in making a lightweight plugin that removes posting limitations. My forum would love to reply to a post with just a single ?. However that gets caught in the filter. I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction to do so. I am bit new to discourse and the likes. I downloaded the source zip from https://github.com/discourse/discourse then did a directory search in atom but got no results on the popup, Body seems unclear, is it a complete sentence? Thanks for your direction.

Sorry if i am a newb. Do you mean the entropy setting? Because mine is at 0. Which i assume is off, false or none. [entropy]

That’s a big assumption you’ve made there.

Okay. is there somewhere i can RTFM?

If you want posts of length 1, why wouldn’t you enter 1 there?

Interesting I assumed 0 would be off and 1 is true, but you know what happens when we assume lol. So I tried with 1 on body entropy, and still got the same error. [entropy_1] might be a bit hard to see on the window behind. I enjoy darker themes.

yes I am semi aware the characters mean the string limit. just assumed at a minimum 0 mean no limit.

And was it an all uppercase post? There is friction here because posting giant streams of short nonsense with an absurd post to metadata ratio … is not the intended use of Discourse. For that you should use a chat system like Discord.

I understand it is not intended. However we were an old vbulletin forum that migrated and some of the users resent not being able to respond with just a ? or quoting the above poster with no other characters in the post. I figured, that this functionality was something discourse was not going to support. So I was looking for direction to create a plugin that would allow this functionality. I will admit that my attempts were nothing above downloading the source code and searching for the error message. Oddly that didn’t even give me a result.

I am not sure, in theory a 1 char post should work with the correct site settings .. but I don’t really care if it works or not, since what you are asking for is a chat software behavior, not a discussion behavior you are experiencing intended friction to steer people away from stuff they should not be doing, at least, not in this software this kind of community should pick different software, as I can guarantee you they will be unhappy with Discourse. Note that a quote with nothing else is a zero character post from Discourse’s perspective.

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) February 1, 2019, 2:21am 2

Edit your site settings to allow this. You don’t need a plugin at all. Search.

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