[Discussion] Blog lengths

[MasterCheeze]

Don’t you -.- me you little @(^_^)@

I think Potato’s idea is starting to sound good. But, uh, this is really confusing.

Maybe blogs that are under the set limit will give a message like Potato said, but then they get sent to a moderator to be checked for content. If they’re a good blog, they will still get posted, but if they’re trash they get rejected. This way people can post even if they tried just a teeny bit, but they’re somewhat inclined to not to since they have to get a moderator to check it.

I think this whole short blog pushing down good blogs problem will go away more if there was a link to a page that showed MORE than the 10 latest blogs shown on the front page. You know, like the last link on MMOT, except this one doesn’t post every single blog that’s in a category. Maybe it can just show the latest 50-100 blogs, so even if there are a lot of short blogs going on, people can just check this link and still get enough info about the better blogs (likes, comments, views, etc. could all be viewable from this page without actually entering the blog).

[Mipsacri]

Okay. Pretty straight forward then, if we wanna count freakin’ spammers.

Frags: 141 characters and under.
(Since a fragment is nothing like a blog and forum (doesn’t create a discussion, ect), and it has the potential to eventually be something similar to a tweet, 141 characters is the standard, and should stay that way. If the tweeters can say what they feel in less than 141 characters, then we can too.)
Forums: 141 characters+
(I actually changed my mind about this. Forums should also be as short as they want, if they want discussion and such what. Really, fragments have nothing in common with forum and blogs.)

Blogs: 100 words+.

There you go!

~Mip

[tarheel91]

Annona said:

tarheel91 said: 141 is not arbitrary.

PLEASE READ THIS EVERYONE.
A text message can only have 140 characters in it. No more. If you want to turn the fragments into tweets, they need to be no more than 140 characters. Thus, REAL blogs have to be 141. I don’t know why Vusys hasn’t made this clear yet.

A quick Google: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-text-messaging.html
160. Twitter/whatever reserves 20 bytes for headers/whatnot.
But why does that matter? For the site’s purposes it’s pretty arbitrary, unless you’re planning to let people text VuTales to post their fragments.

-.- @ Cheeze
What I mean to say is that just because anything under 140 characters can go in a fragment instead, doesn’t mean that it should go in a fragment. In certain situations it may be more suitable for a blog, although, granted, 140 characters is extremely short.

In reality if someone wants to spam, they will spam. They’d use 141 @’s or whatever. And if someone really wants to post a short blog, they’ll sandwich in a lot of whitespace.
You could argue that it might make people think twice about it before doing such a thing, but you can accomplish that that without enforcing a stringent limit. Direct people to a rules page on sign-up. Display a word count, which is already done. If you even want to, make an “Are you sure you want to post such a short blog?” alert box. But setting automatic limits only encourages people to bypass it if it gets in their way, which I think is really counter-productive.

Ha, seems like you’re right. I knew it was some number between one and a hundred with an even tens digit…
The point is not to text VuTales fragments, but to enable people to receive the tweets (on their phone) when you post them. For example, Cheeze posts a fragment: “I just beat AznSeal at SSBM!” I get said fragment sent to my phone. I get updates without even coming online. That’s the point.

[MasterCheeze]

Mipsacri said: Okay. Pretty straight forward then, if we wanna count freakin’ spammers.

Frags: 141 characters and under.
(Since a fragment is nothing like a blog and forum (doesn’t create a discussion, ect), and it has the potential to eventually be something similar to a tweet, 141 characters is the standard, and should stay that way. If the tweeters can say what they feel in less than 141 characters, then we can too.)
Forums: 141 characters+
(I actually changed my mind about this. Forums should also be as short as they want, if they want discussion and such what. Really, fragments have nothing in common with forum and blogs.)

Blogs: 100 words+.

There you go!

~Mip

Hm. I think threads should have a really low limit since all it takes is a small question to stir up discussion, and threads are allowed to be that short. Anything less than a small question (a small statement or a couple of words) should go as a Fragment however.

[David]

Threads should not have a limit – it’s too arbitrary. Forums should be free for discussion.

Actually.

Everything is great right now the way it is. You got rid of the scraps function as well, which is fine.

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