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December 15, 2022 06:54AM
This is a pet peeve of mine. There are some time and date boxes that will give you error after error until everything is entered. The other thing I am seeing and don't like is character minimums. (Yes, I found a free character-counter to pop my text into to see where I stand), but many of these answers do not need a 500 character blow-by-blow account. I feel like I am doing a 7th grade essay and trying to stretch it out. My college class in technical writing taught me brevity. Argh.
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December 15, 2022 07:56AM
Journalism also teaches brevity, plus clarity. Boy, love those "simple declarative sentences"!

Absolutely, totally, 100% agreement here.
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December 15, 2022 04:43PM
And all those character counting programs do is tell you how much fluff you need to add to the narrative.
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December 15, 2022 05:13PM
If there is a character requirement, I wish:

1. They would make it clear so that I don't finish writing and THEN get notified that I didn't have enough characters in that text box.

2. They would tell me that there is a maximum character limit. Many times I have provided good details, but I get a message that I have exceeded the character limit.

Both of these are annoying time-wasters.
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December 15, 2022 05:16PM
@Threemom wrote:

2. They would tell me that there is a maximum character limit. Many times I have provided good details, but I get a message that I have exceeded the character limit.
You must have shopped for Confero lol. smiling smiley
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December 15, 2022 07:31PM
I dislike both character maximums and minimums. Certain time fields aggravate me to no end because they keep giving me error messages before I finish inputting all the data.
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