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I wonder what HN would be like if it was the opposite of Twitter - all comments have to be more than 140 (or 280) characters in length. Does any existing forum

I wonder what HN would be like if it was the opposite of Twitter - all comments have to be more than 140 (or 280) characters in length. Does any existing forum do this? Could be interesting if users were only allowed to write mini-essays to each other. Not sure if that would increase the information density by encouraging more thoughtful comments, or decrease it because people would uselessly pad their comments out to hit the threshold.

Yetanfou 6y ago
Slashdot did this - and possibly still does, no idea since I left that site aeons ago - although the limit was lower than 140 characters. It led to people adding random nonsense to their comments to keep the comment filter satisfied. Since everyone knew there was such a content filter and the added guff was marked as such it did not lead to those comments being down-moderated, i.e. all it did was clutter up the site.
voussoir 6y ago
/r/TrueFilm has a 180 minimum for top-level comments in threads except for the weekly casual post. Sometimes people have something to say that doesn't need 180 characters so they'll add padding, but it's pretty rare all things considered.