Seriously, what's the point of this anyways? It's easily bypassed with the edit function, so it's clearly not a matter of overloading the boards. All it leads to now, is people new to the forums starting threads that are an absolute mess. Or, because they don't want to double/triple/quadruple post, they often condense their thoughts into a very limited format, leaving out key points to further their argument/suggestion.

Yes, everyone eventually figures out to edit past 1000 chars. But there will always be new players, and I for one don't see the point of the limit.