the whole word count per post thing has never sat well with me, because if your having a conversation with someone, then there isn't going to BE that much to post, you can't speak for them without metagaming, and there's nothing for your character to be doing that won't retract from the the whole conversation aspect of it. I mean, yes, minimum quality, I can understand that, but there times when there just isn't a way to get the quantity of text without stretching the situation ridiculously.