Can't you tell us when our post has passed 1000 characters before we try to submit it

[Kieren-Dohla]

Please tell us when our post is past 1000 characters before we try to submit it. It's stupid to tell us after submit. Sometimes when I really had to elaborate, my post ran long. I gave up rather than editing it down and posting it again. Do I have to count characters myself?

[Quackley]

Literally all you have to do is copy/cut out a section of it, post and press edit, and paste it back in.
You can bypass the character limit that way.