Big posts should count as +1 in OT

[Ming]

First... it will never happen

But let's say that it did... All you would have to do is cut and paste some meaningless story... or just use the quote feature... I can see it now... you post a 100 to 500 word meaningful and insightful post (unlike the one that started this thread ) and the next poster hits the reply with quote figure and adds a simple thumbs up icon...

This would lead to even more spam in the OT... and would make it almost impossible to make it through a thread where most of the posts were over 100 characters

[Robert]

Then we can still have the 'avg chars inpost' feature.

But I thought that the OT +0 decision was made bc of the huge amount of spam in the OT.

[DrSpike]

It's not the size of the posts that makes OT posts not count, it's the fact they are OT. If they are a million words this is still the case, and thus the chances of the owners changing their opinion on this issue, which has been stated many times, is essentially zero.

[Space05us]

I like it! Its a great idea! It should go into effect immeadietly!

[Robert]

Just finished another 1000+ characters post in the OT.
And I suddenly wondered, if someone types more than 100 chars in a post it can hardly be concidered as spam anymore.

Unless it just says: BLABLABLA or something like that, but that's easily recognizable for the moderators.

Why not let, say, 100+ characters posts count in the OT?
I'm sure that would leave us with more valuable discussions and threads, while spam would not pay off. (but people can still post their one word comments, whitout running the risk to get a spam PCR)

Pherhaps it can even count for all the forums: only 50+ /100+ posts count as a +1.

Another feature might be: post in people's profiles the avg number of chars of their postings.
I'm "only" a king, but sometimes I wonder if I haven't typed more letters on poly than the avg deity?

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