The tech support member of this blog's team, Andy Moyle, wrote the code to introduce a word count on comments yesterday, and the system went live last night.
You will now find that the comment box counts your words and suggests how many you have left when you write. It should block submissions of more than 400 words by simply not letting them happen.
It is actually noticeable that since suggesting I might do this, comments have become shorter and much easier to moderate.
As I previously mentioned, I am making exceptions to this word limit policy for any seasoned commentator who would like to be exempted from this limit, and I will be inviting some. In essence, this is unlikely to be an exception given to anyone who has not:
- Posted over a period of well over a year.
- Has posted maybe 1,000 times.
- Has a track record of posts being accepted, which does not necessarily mean agreeing with me.
If anyone wants this opportunity, you can ask, but I might take some persuading. That said, this is not a rule for me to comply with; it is a guideline I can vary.
And if you want to post something longer, do so, clearly indicating it is parts, and I will decide if that is justified.
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I don’t want an exemption.
“Comment” – if you can’t say it in 400 words, don’t.
🙂
It’s not that much of an imposition to be honest and I appreciate the ‘guidance’.
Thanks Andy! 😀
thank you – now so much easier to read, learn and inwardly digest – précis, condense – Richard can always request further explanation if he feels that ‘more’ is necessary.
I can…
It might be useful for posters to know, based on my limited experiment, that URLs do not affect the word-count (before submitting, anyway).
In our “democracy” decisions to tax or spend are nearly always made for short term electoral reasons, not whether there is unused economic capacity. If there is spare capacity – for example high levels of unemployment or withdrawal from the labour force due to physical or mental illnesses, there is the problem of creating electorally palatable but effective methods of mobilising it which also satisfy the bond and FX markets.
The bond and FX markets love thriving economies.
Why are you claiming otherwise?
I was sceptical, because some ideas are complex to just tell them in a slogan, but after using it, I think 400 words is a good balance.
PS Slogans are to imprint ideas, but you need to understand those ideas first.