Another poll: When is a long post content warning necessary?
Is it necessary? Is it non-sense? Or should posts longer than Mastodon toots be banned everywhere in the Fediverse?
Please boost for a larger sample size.
#Poll #LongPosts #LongToots #500Characters
Is it necessary? Is it non-sense? Or should posts longer than Mastodon toots be banned everywhere in the Fediverse?
Please boost for a larger sample size.
#Poll #LongPosts #LongToots #500Characters
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My reasoning: character count isn't about content but about form.
And practically, while your fediverse reading program might not be able to understand a post well enough to see what the content is about, and give you a warning, it can easily detect character count and do something you'd like if the count is too large.
If you want to skip all posts above 500 characters or whatever, it would be trivial to program a client to do that. It's a UI issue.
@volkris I'd rather skip all posts under 500 chars for a lack of depth and the all-too-often use of surreal short-speech, only to squeeze even more abbreviated content in - until we finally reach that "/2" note indicating, that all of that half-methodical circus wasn't even working. Not just linguistically this is quite absurd. The usual amount of comments then again complaining, that all of this was tooo long! indicates people's much decreased concentration for more than an SMS-length of message. All if that can be discarded without any loss of important information. I hope this was wordy enough.
@jrp I'm with you, personally, but then I'd say with good UI design there's room for all of us here, for different users to tailor their experiences to their personal preferences.
