3000 characters is not enough.

[SannaR]

Can't say I'm surprised that even on this topic we have people blaming the player vs. SE's archaic system.

Right? As even if you want to quote multiple people the quotes themselves count as part of the character limit. It's why you will see people delete an entire quote and have snip in the quoted part. Even the text in

here

is counted towards the character limit.