(continuation of my previous comment, which otherwise exceeded the character limit)
Finally, the question of secrecy is an interesting one. Clearly there is use in being able to hide knowledge from those who ought not (by your lights) have it, and also in selecting for those who do not shy from putting in some intellectual effort; but the question is: how do you balance that with the desire to attract, to your field, those who can contribute to its advancement? After all, if you make no explicit efforts toward that end, then you will select very strongly for adherents who love obscure puzzles (as we might put it charitably; or, less charitably—those whose interest what is esoteric far outstrips their interest in what is true). Do you (hypothetical founder or member of any movement, group, intellectual tradition, etc.) want to attract only such people, and exclude those of a more straightforward, sensible mindset? I do not think so; and any movement that does want this, seems unlikely to be very effective in achieving its goals.
From the best of my knowledge, we do not have a character limit. Maybe you are running into some technical issue? Would love to fix it, since I don’t seem to have any problems posting arbitrarily long comments.
Comment attempting to reproduce character limit issue:
EDIT: Here I originally posted the string ‘xxxxxxx ’ repeated 512 times, totalling more than the sum of the lengths of Said Achmiz’ two comments, with no issue. I have removed it because it took up a lot of space on the page. But as far as I can tell it was successful.
(continuation of my previous comment, which otherwise exceeded the character limit)
Finally, the question of secrecy is an interesting one. Clearly there is use in being able to hide knowledge from those who ought not (by your lights) have it, and also in selecting for those who do not shy from putting in some intellectual effort; but the question is: how do you balance that with the desire to attract, to your field, those who can contribute to its advancement? After all, if you make no explicit efforts toward that end, then you will select very strongly for adherents who love obscure puzzles (as we might put it charitably; or, less charitably—those whose interest what is esoteric far outstrips their interest in what is true). Do you (hypothetical founder or member of any movement, group, intellectual tradition, etc.) want to attract only such people, and exclude those of a more straightforward, sensible mindset? I do not think so; and any movement that does want this, seems unlikely to be very effective in achieving its goals.
From the best of my knowledge, we do not have a character limit. Maybe you are running into some technical issue? Would love to fix it, since I don’t seem to have any problems posting arbitrarily long comments.
Comment attempting to reproduce character limit issue:
EDIT: Here I originally posted the string ‘xxxxxxx ’ repeated 512 times, totalling more than the sum of the lengths of Said Achmiz’ two comments, with no issue. I have removed it because it took up a lot of space on the page. But as far as I can tell it was successful.