I personally would be much more willing to use colours and other codes like bold, italic, underline, etc. if it didn't cut into the character limit.
Not to mention adding images and links! Those eat up quite a lot!
And then there's quoting other posts. So often I have to trim out a massive amount of the quoted post or else I'll have no room left to add my own thoughts.
And I have a (what I consider a good one) habit of using a lot of gaps between sentences in order to make things more readable. That takes up characters, too!
I don't know what number makes sense but I definitely have hit 2000 many many times.
25-Dec-2020 02:32:09