It's an incredibly pointless part of the forums that needs to go. All you need to do in order to bypass it is edit your post and add what you want to add, and that's just a tedious thing.

You may be thinking "well if you can bypass it then why should it be removed/increased?"

Think about it. This is like if you were giving out free food and you limited a person to 5 pieces. However, once that person returned, they were allowed to then take as much food as they wanted.

It's dumb and annoying. There's no reason it should be here, AT LEAST increase the limit to 2,000 or something. Or even remove Quoting from the character limit.