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  • Lyzern
    +7

    Mainly because there's nothing in the rules mentioning "short replies", but also because people who write "short replies" likely aren't xp farming, they just want to voice their opinion without going in too much detail about it. OP talks about quality of content, but does that really matter when there are upvotes and downvotes? Comments that cause discussion get upvoted, comments that are short but funny also get upvoted because they're entertaining. I'm here to discuss and be entertained. Aren't you?

    Lastly, because this is plain censoring people's opinions. "Ohhhh, don't comment if you X, don't make a snap if you don't Y, even though X and Y aren't against the rules". And you know damn well what happens when people try to censor others.

    • GreatMightyPoo (edited 8 years ago)
      +5

      It's not really about it being in the rules or not nor is it about censorship. It's about gaming the xp system with short meaningless replies. For instance, your initial comment of "I disagree." There's nothing wrong with it given the context of this snap (although it's my personal opinion that it would have been nice if you added more explanation in your initial comment). But lets say you go into every opinionated snap and post "I disagree" or "I agree" with an aim to boost your xp. That's what this speaking against.

      Also, it's not about rules because it would be darn near impossible to enforce, similar to how it's impossible to enforce "downvote is not disagree." It's more of a request on how the community should act. It's not against the law not to hold the door open for someone, but it would be nice if people did. Similarly it's not against Snapzu rules to post short meaningless comments and covertly farm xp, but it would be nice for the community if one didn't.

      • kigurame
        +3

        Well said this is not a rule issue it's a moral issue and it think it's fair we should be able to have expectations based on that

    • kigurame (edited 8 years ago)
      +4

      I'm afraid you misunderstand this isn't really about short and perfectly in context replies this is not the issue. Nor is it about censoring. It's simply about people using one word or very little more to game the xp system. Since Gaining levels gives them more privileges one could argue they might be doing this with not so noble intentions. I'm really just talking about people that have a personal feed full of non relevant one liners. Honestly if you write a joke or one liner ever so often that's not a problem if it balances out.