>>18295if its word-wrapped (so that it can be dynamically lengthened), it'll have to be automated wrapping
if its an enforced 80-char limit, people will be forced to format manually
the latter will naturally become easier to read, as the author knows far better how to his post is best laid out for readability than the machine could (and of course, the machine would be extremely naive anyways in this case)
and having to format manually, because left to char-wrapping the post would simply look retarded, the posting anon must inevitably consider his textual presentation to a degree far more significant than he ever would in a word-wrapping world
for example, consider the long posts of a chan versus the long posts of usenet or a linux git commit, and consider which better allows for reading
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