Poll: Change the word limit to 3000 words? Opcijas

[Nimue]

...just by the way. I remember that during the first round of the debate our team had some problems with word limit. If you want to write a proper post and a rebuttal, you find yourself very limited and two rebuttals are almost impossible. So we decided that we could suggest increasing the limit to 3000 words. Thus we wouldn't need to limit ourselves so much.

1)Vote ONLY if you actually plan on participating in the debate. (this is more for casual post raisers, who post in every poll posted in this forum. If you are actually reading this - it most probably does not pertain to you anyway)

2) State in this topic how you voted and shortly the reasons why you think so. Especially, if you participated in the previous debate we held there.

3)If you don't care, vote "yes" -since obviosly - if no one has any problems with this, then we are changing the limit. (so - naturally I voted yes)



I am neutral on this opinion. 2000 word limit raised no problems for me, because I was planning to write a post, which is about 2000 words long, and edited it accordingly. Had I had to write a 3000 word post - I don't think it would have made any difference.
Argument against:
Longer posts are harder to read - since having a longer post puts less pressure on the author to actually organise the post to make sure the sentences still carry the main thought. We are adding 1/3rd in lenghth - will it make posts contain 33% more sense, or will it only spread the idea the post has over 33% more text?
Argument for:
If Quantity equals Quality and provides for better debate - why not?

Šo rakstu rediģēja Nimue: 14.04.2005 16:02

[Urdrunir]

Here's an oppinnion from a person that does not participate but sometimes wants to see what have you come up with. I would like shorter posts with idea. Makes me more willing to read and may be learn something.