forum post limitations...a suggestion

[Enkidoh]

The reason there's posting restrictions like the 1000 character limit is because the Beta forum degenerated into a wretched hive of flaming and troll posts (SE implemented the same restrictions on the Beta forum) - no doubt that spooked them so hence they just kept the restrictions on the Lodestone.

Yes it's annoying, but the 1000 character thing is easily worked around (post the first section of your post under that limit, then simply edit in the rest), and the amount of posts you can make each day increases with your character's level - it's to stop new players coming on and making endless 'hello world!' type spam threads/posts. Or at least, that's what it seems to me.

SE are only responding to community behaviour - if people didn't troll or post spam so much we wouldn't have this problem - it's a case of 'this is why we can't have nice things.'

[Kittra]

The reason there's posting restrictions like the 1000 character limit is because the Beta forum degenerated into a wretched hive of flaming and troll posts (SE implemented the same restrictions on the Beta forum) - no doubt that spooked them so hence they just kept the restrictions on the Lodestone.

Yes it's annoying, but the 1000 character thing is easily worked around (post the first section of your post under that limit, then simply edit in the rest), and the amount of posts you can make each day increases with your character's level - it's to stop new players coming on and making endless 'hello world!' type spam threads/posts. Or at least, that's what it seems to me.

SE are only responding to community behaviour - if people didn't troll or post spam so much we wouldn't have this problem - it's a case of 'this is why we can't have nice things.'

Near as I can tell, you get a maximum post limit of 10 per day at the max character level... personally I find this unacceptable. We can work around the 1000 character limit, but not around the posts per day limit, which sucks.

*EDIT*

And then we run into this bull crap where I try to quote and end up having "too many characters" so I shorten it by a sentence and now my response is "too short, please add more characters..." (Yes, this just happened.)