Beehaw requires an application to join. No, it wasn't an essay in the sense that this post is kind of an essay. They just asked me three questions, and I wrote about a paragraph (5 sentences or so) for each question. This is basically what I wrote for the first two questions, just with a lot more words.

In the FAQ for beehaw they said if you don't write enough of a response then you won't be let in, but I was let in within about 10 minutes of making it, so I guess 5 sentences was what they were looking for.