lets revive this topics shall we

8to16 wrote:

people can just spam a bunch of words to get around the limit. e.g

-Snip-

Then report them
(Also, spam is spam, even if it's used as an example)

I think some people here see “200 characters” and assume it’s a huge chunk of text, or are confusing “characters” for “words.” 200 characters refers to letters and punctuation and not the words. This short paragraph is 200 characters long.

(^ Excluding spaces and the Quote BBCode. Including spaces is 239 characters.)

Honestly, it may be my love for writing and reading, but I like this suggestion. Scratch’s Suggestion forums are to share ideas in the hopes that the Scratch team will see them, and if you want that idea to actually be implemented you should be elaborating on it. Scratch doesn’t implement suggestions based on Support / No Support ratios after all: there should be something in the OP to try and convince the Scratch team to implement your suggestion, or implement it properly. (What if you don’t elaborate, and everyone completely misunderstands your suggestion?)

Plus, Scratch is an educational website, and there's argument made that forcing a minimum character limit could help with practicing important skills such as communicating and elaborating on your ideas, or using logic and evidence to support your ideas.
(Above argument is 132 words and 687 characters, excluding spaces. Characters do not take up a lot of space at all.)

8to16 wrote:

Please add dark mode pneumonoultramicroscopicsillocovolcanoconiosis pneumonoultramicroscopicsillocovolcanoconiosis pneumonoultramicroscopicsillocovolcanoconiosis pneumonoultramicroscopicsillocovolcanoconiosis

This amount is 201 characters, excluding spaces. There is no need to spam so much.
I would say the only thing to add onto this suggestion is a character counter when typing in Suggestions since people keep heavily overestimating 200 characters.

Bump
Also I remember supporting this. Weird.
Support because really, 200 characters isn't that much to ask for. It makes people have to elaborate and explain what their idea is rather than potentially causing confusion because of a lack of explanation. Plus, examples are always a good thing to include in a suggestion, as well as why the suggestion should be added. If you're including things like this I see no reason that the post would be under 200 characters.
It also encourages people to think more about their idea and whether it's a good idea or not.