Originally Posted by MSPeconomist

I've observed some people do it, although I don't. It only matters if you want to respond with less than five characters.

However, I tried it earlier today to check whether I could post anything at all versus just the white box to add text being broken. It's curious that after the text box problem was fixed (and after dealing with the cached problem), the "functionality" that apparently remained missing was the way words in the quoted text no longer appear to be included in the count for the five character requirement.

Some people will quote a post with +1, a thumbs up or similar smilie, or yes. Now they must say +1000 or YES!!

:-:^ should work too, but not just @:-) or .