I totally get you. The question is, what is better for the community.
1. Introduce, for example, a comment character limit and thus ban the useful short comments as well.
2. Go with the current route and let the comment path determine the good content.
3. We could make downvoting short comments free and notice the author that short comments are usually not the best or something like that.
I have no real answer to this to be honest.
*edit: Added point 3
I like point 3, I suppose people would end up just padding the comment with blank characters for point 1.
Introduce, for example, a comment character limit
Totally.
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And there's the problem with that. The comment above the line is 8 words, only one is mine, and none of it adds to the conversation.
I totally get you. The question is, what is better for the community.
1. Introduce, for example, a comment character limit and thus ban the useful short comments as well.
2. Go with the current route and let the comment path determine the good content.
3. We could make downvoting short comments free and notice the author that short comments are usually not the best or something like that.
I have no real answer to this to be honest.
*edit: Added point 3
I like point 3, I suppose people would end up just padding the comment with blank characters for point 1.
Totally.
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And there's the problem with that. The comment above the line is 8 words, only one is mine, and none of it adds to the conversation.