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Old Apr 14, 2004, 9:32 pm
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Exclamation Can someone lower the bottom limit of characters allowed per post to below 10?

Try posting a smiley in response - vBulletin, as it's set up, won't let you - you must post something at least 10 characters long!

Can someone please change this, to lower the limit to 1 or something?

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Old Apr 14, 2004, 9:55 pm
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Old Apr 14, 2004, 10:36 pm
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Old Apr 15, 2004, 6:00 am
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I actually prefer that we not be able to post one or two character responses.

Just posting a smiley does not add anything to a thread other than to your post count.

For many people who access this board via modem or slow connections, those types of posts take much time to load.

So, I would actually prefer to see a 10 character limit or something like that.

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Old Apr 15, 2004, 7:44 am
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How is it that others are posting replies less than 10 characters (I think), and I can not? Discrimination? Prejudice?
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Old Apr 15, 2004, 7:59 am
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Originally Posted by anonplz
How is it that others are posting replies less than 10 characters (I think), and I can not? Discrimination? Prejudice?
they're not. you just don't see the other characters.
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Old Apr 15, 2004, 8:06 am
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Originally Posted by empedocles
they're not. you just don't see the other characters.
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Old Apr 15, 2004, 9:06 am
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Old Apr 15, 2004, 10:24 am
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Originally Posted by empedocles
they're not. you just don't see the other characters.
Please see also...

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Old Apr 15, 2004, 10:42 am
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Originally Posted by wharvey
I actually prefer that we not be able to post one or two character responses.

Just posting a smiley does not add anything to a thread other than to your post count.
True. But, let's say, you wanted to post a news story inside of the "quote" function on an existing thread. That doesn't count towards your 10 characters, so you can't just post the story, which is annoying.
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Old Apr 15, 2004, 10:57 am
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True. But, let's say, you wanted to post a news story inside of the "quote" function on an existing thread. That doesn't count towards your 10 characters, so you can't just post the story, which is annoying.
I've enabled the letter count for the quote tags, so that shouldn't be an issue now. As for reducing the minimum character count from 10, we haven't reached a decision on it yet.
 
Old Apr 15, 2004, 11:56 pm
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