Can we please do away with the 1000 character limit on forum posts? Or at least make it something more reasonable, say in the realm of 5000? 1000 is really restrictive and makes responding to active debates a real chore. Forums are supposed to be a place of friendly debate and communication, but that's stifled by unnecessarily low character limits. It's irritating as sin when you finish writing a post only for the system to tell you that you can't even preview it because you went over the arbitrarily low character limit.

Most people wind up bypassing the limit by multi-posting or editing anyway so I don't even understand what it was supposed to accomplish. So please, take a look and consider removing what amounts to a useless restriction!