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I was asked if I use MySQL or InfluxDB and my answer would have been “InfluxDB 1.8”, but I was not allowed to post that, since the required minimum post length is 20 caracters.

I had to fill up the post with useless text just to be able to send it and I propose to remove this restriction since I don’t see a benefit in it.
Maybe it makes sense for the main post to get a reasonable content there, but not for the answers.

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Hi @michaeluray

Good point. We reconfigured the post length that are not the first topic to 10 characters.

Cheers!

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In my example my answer could have been “InfluxDB” which still would have been smaller as 10 characters.
Why do we need such a limit on answers in general?

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Hi @michaeluray

This is a discourse setting, usually those are there to prevent spam and bots posting. I can lower it a bit more.

Cheers!

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