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Character requirement for reviews
Feb 8, 2026
Reviews with low character counts aren't helpful and just create additional noise. There's a lot of reviews with text such as "Rated 3.5" or "Really like it" etc. This doesn't provide any additional information beyond what the star rating already covers. Many other platforms require a minimum character requirement for example on Kobo it's 50 characters.
Comments
On trakt there is/was a way to distinguish between "shout" (very short comment, not really a review) and "review". Ok, I just checked it out and they also have a "comment" type. Might be worth considering. I wouldn't implement trakt's reactions.
As discussed on Discord, there are people (myself included) who would oppose this restriction. People who are inclined to write very short reviews may just end up adding filler text to meet the minimum, which would be way less useful than a short review by itself. I would support a way to filter reviews by length, though, for the people who don't want to see the short ones.