Should the minimum character warning educate about likes?

[anon21958287]

@downey

This is a frequent complaint of our users.

Haha! Not ours. We have minimum length set to 1. Viola!

[anon25879736]

Not to mention we have found numerous ways of getting around the content restrictions.

[RaceProUK]

True
<It’s actually pretty easy>

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

[riking (Kane York)]

Y’all got any more of that… grain?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Well, y’know, animated gif… 256 colors… converted back to mpeg… it works a little bit like this

[downey (Michael Downey)]

@codinghorror

Perhaps if all they need is a boolean, one bit, 0 or 1 answer, these users should start a poll topic instead?

A nice idea, but polls don’t work via email. (The medium in which all of our complaints originate.)

[elberet (Jens Maier)]

Apropops rube goldberg machines, it would be a crime not to link this awesome video:

[anon25879736]

@downey

A nice idea, but polls don’t work via email. (The medium in which all of our complaints originate.)

And polls don’t work mid thread, either.

[neil (Neil Lalonde)]

Do polls work mid-thread?

• Yes (thanks to zogstrip)
• No

[cpradio]

I’m totally psyched about the poll upgrade

[downey (Michael Downey)]

I clicked no because I can’t hide results or change my vote without a page reload.

But, yay!