Why bother with the minimum character requirement for replies?

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Allow for empty posts and empty topic body

Related to the issues described here How to turn off "Body seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?' It seems that it is not possible to do the following; create a new topic with an empty body message create a post with an empty message For the former, if you try to create a topic with an empty, or even single-character, body message, you get the error such as “Body seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?” For the latter, if you try to create a post with an empty body, you get an error s…