Post lengths

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At some point in the past, people complained about the size limit on posts being too limiting. At the time it seemed like allowing a very long post size would be a good idea, and so I bumped the limit up to 20000 characters.

This is a pretty outrageous length for a post. At this point I find long posts to be an tremendous annoyance, which is saying a lot since I thought I was wordy.

It's not that I don't usually agree with them; what's annoying is the poster's inability to respect their audience. Long quoted passages are a waste; huge screeds are impossible to respond to. Most of the time they are not posting in their own words, but engaging in a huge cut-n-paste as if quantity strengthened the debate.

This is not what we should be about, I feel, but I'd like your take on it. I'm proposing we cut the post length down to 4000 characters. Assuming an average line length of 50 characters, that's 80 lines of text.

Opinions?