Update; Kreepy got a word counter running on the forums! We're giving it some time for people to test run. In the meantime, check out this post and let us know if you like this idea or not.
Sometimes it can be difficult to determine what exactly constitutes for a sentence. It gets difficult for staff verifying that all posts in a breeding or event roleplay (since those are the only ones we heavily monitor) meet the 5 sentence minimum at times. As such, it was brought up during staff discussion that perhaps a word count minimum would be better and we could link to a few free word counting websites, such as Word Counter and Word Counter Tool for users to check that their posts meet the minimum.
This would also mean staff can easily copy and paste a post in to these websites for length verification if they feel it looks a bit short. Users that do make use of the tools would also know that their posts will not cause a problem down the line.
If we do switch to this way of minimum posts though, we have to decide on that that good minimum would be. Do we go for 50 words? 75? 100? The current staff proposed limit is 75, but we also haven't done any trials on what length that usually seems to even out to. Before we move in to the final stages of deciding if we're going to switch to this method, we'd like to get user feedback on it. After all, perhaps you guys, as the ones actually RPing the most, would prefer that we stick to a sentence minimum.
(Using the two tools linked above, this post came out to be 255 words.)