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RantRave has a 1,000 character limit on all posts to someone’s input. Who the heck can make a knowledgeable, well detailed, insightful, truthful, honest response to what someone has written in 1K worth of letter and symbols? Sure there are those who throw out a few lines of verbiage in response to a Rant or a Rave, but most times these are simple objections to or agreements with the subject at hand, rarely are they very informative and many times they leave the reader looking for more, more information, more facts, more details, more everything. Personally I am a man of few words, I don’t hold long conversations with people I don’t really know, I don’t spend hours on the phone talking about inane things, I don’t write long letters to my relatives and I don’t just rattle off word after word without saying something (at least I hope that is how I come across). When I write, I try to be as exacting and conservative in my use of the English language as I can possibly be, to do otherwise would open myself up to more errors than one person is allowed on a daily basis!
When I am responding to someone’s post about a subject I feel I am conversant in, I try to address all the aspects that they have brought to the forum and if I feel they have neglected to bring an important point to light, I will expand on it so that others will be able to grasp the entire concept behind my input to their post.
I understand R/R’s 1K limit has a purpose and it is to restrict the poster’s footprint on each page, whether this is due to concerns about the reader becoming bored with long posts or a financial reason I really don’t know, for whatever underlying reason it is very annoying to have to break a response down to segments that will fit in the reply window.
Perhaps R/R can adjust the character limit to a word limit or make each response a link that expands if a person clicks on the box. Either way, I would be nice if the webmaster would consider making a change to the limit so that those of us who do respond will not have to continually reduce our verbiage or cut our posts in to little pieces.
And for those of you who will post back to this Rant and say I’m a long winded blow hard, don’t bother, I just did.