Remove 1k Character Limit Please

It's time.

Everybody just edits their posts to bypass it anyway.

If anything, if you won't remove it completely, at least up it to 2k or something.

Thanks!


Sincerely,

Toodles Mcduff

Remove the daily post limit as well while you're at it. These were put in to counteract the massive traffic launch saw, fairly sure that's died down a year later...

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Originally Posted by Nalien

Remove the daily post limit as well while you're at it. These were put in to counteract the massive traffic launch saw, fairly sure that's died down a year later...

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Zomg YES!

Or at least, ease that up too, double the post amount if anything.

A little give SE, please.

I think we have about as much chance of this gaining traction as we have of seeing a Miqo'te strip club opening up in Ul'dah, which is to say none. Nonetheless, I'll add my sentiments that the forum limits are ridiculous and meaningless, especially given that you can edit your post to get around it.

Knowing SE though, they'll probably just 'fix' it so that we can no longer edit our posts to 1k+ characters, just to enforce it more.

I still don't understand why they are keeping both limits after so long.

Signed! It's time we stood up and made a stand before we can stand this no longer!

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Originally Posted by Nalien

Remove the daily post limit as well while you're at it. These were put in to counteract the massive traffic launch saw, fairly sure that's died down a year later...

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It was actually put in place during the beta to stop people who had literally thousands of posts on the forums from replying to every single thread with nonsense to boost their post count.

LOL agreed. Never understood the limitations on these forums. SE so anti social, this is a MMORPG forum board, you want people to spam it to hell. Just so your game doesn't look as dry as it actually is.

Agreed. As the totally undisputed and very handsome King of the forum I can say with experience that this is one of the most pointless limitations we have. People are going to multi-post or retroactively edit anyway, why with the charade? It's like a cardboard roadblock.

Also, tying post limit to character level? I can see how that would make some sense, but there's so many other, heavier factors to overall "post quality".

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Originally Posted by Lemuria

I think we have about as much chance of this gaining traction as we have of seeing a Miqo'te strip club opening up in Ul'dah, which is to say none.

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There was once one, in the miner guild ^^

http://www.dannykang.net/wordpress/w...1291429440.jpg

I agree the post character limit is entirely too sho

I summon thee, rise from the crypt! Please note the date of this thread, this has been an issue long enough.

(edit: Make sure to go to the linked thread and 'like' if you want this brought up. It's not as important as the botting and such, but maybe it'll at least bring it to someone's attention)

Agreed. I don't come here often to post anymore because I lost love for this game right around the time YoshiP was revealed to be a liar (Housing), but with Eureka and a semi-return to some content I enjoyed in the past I want to contribute to the discussion again.

These limitations are nonsense and I don't understand why SE continues to constrain not only themselves but their players. We're loooooong past the days of ignorance where we would actually believe things couldn't work because of 'ps2 limitations'. It's over. It's time for transparency and honestly and actually accepting feedback. That starts with not trying to silence us with arbitrary limitations.

Not sure I agree about the post limit, but the 1k character limit is absurd and everyone bypasses it anyway without the forums combusting in the process.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

Remove the daily post limit as well while you're at it. These were put in to counteract the massive traffic launch saw, fairly sure that's died down a year later...

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I am fine with a post limit (maybe make it a bit higher) because that can be used to cool down some discussions.

But a 10000000% yes to the character limit. I mean its not like we are allowed to post half a book as a post..its such a small limit that you are barely able to say anything, especially if you also quote someone. How much sense does a discussion forum make when you cant really discuss normally?

(Wow that was quite an old thread ö_ö sad that we still have the limit even years later)

Nah, I'd say the post limit needs to go, too. While I can agree on the tempering heated discussion maybe, I always feel it holding back a lot of helpful posting on patch days when too much starts exploding over new content.

It certainly doesn't need to be a 24 hour limit, at least. If you still gotta have a limit, do 10 posts an hour or something.

UP!
It's super anoying. We already have to PAY to use forums, why do we need 1000 characters limit even? Remove it pleaseee!!

The post limit is fine, given how some people can just argue forever about stuff. It gives room for other people to talk.

The post limit is beyond absurd at this point. It needs to go.

They are afraid of debates, hence the limit. That's what I get from this. But still it's kinda pointless cause it can be bypassed by editing. Just remove it already.

I'd say most of the posts can be conveyed in concise manners. If posts get too long, it may as well be just as convoluted as the average Mr. Happy video guide.

The character limit is absolutely idiotic.
Even w/o long quotes I often run into it while trying to formulate a decent answer.

As for the daily post limit: probably an anti trolling measure so SE can be stingy about hiring CM staff.
There's probably one lonely dude sitting in the basement, moderating these forums and that's it. :D

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Originally Posted by RokkuEkkusu

I'd say most of the posts can be conveyed in concise manners. If posts get too long, it may as well be just as convoluted as the average Mr. Happy video guide.

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1k limit is not much and if people want to write long texts why not let them? Either people read them or they dont. (And its not like they cant already do that thanks to the edit function) As soon as you have some quotes on top of your own text you have barely any words left to write.