Limit the maximum post comment length to something less spammy, such as 5000 characters.

Why would it be useful?
Someone posted the full script of the Bee Movie in post #1141822, and now that whole thing turns up in nearly every comment search. I've already had to scroll past it dozen times.

What part(s) of the site page(s) are affected?
Post comments, comment search

I would prefer that we instead just get some form of auto-minimize on the comment. Sometimes there's a lot to respond to or with, legitimately.

Furrin_Gok said:
I would prefer that we instead just get some form of auto-minimize on the comment. Sometimes there's a lot to respond to or with, legitimately.

I agree with this. I don't think there's a need for a character limit.

Furrin_Gok said:
I would prefer that we instead just get some form of auto-minimize on the comment.

That'd make them easier to scroll past, but they'd still turn up in too many searches.

...I'm honestly surprised that this hasn't been used a lot for trolling. Someone could post the whole dictionary in the comments, which would make the comment search unusable until the admins got around to deleting those.

+1 There should be a comment length limit. Is there a comment rate limit, too? These are both needed to prevent spamming.

I'd be fine with an auto-collapse of comments over a certain size, but I don't think it's necessary to actually prevent their creation as long as that is done.

leomole said:
+1 There should be a comment length limit. Is there a comment rate limit, too? These

There is a rate limit, but evidently no length limit. That movie script was about 9000 words long.

Genjar said:
There is a rate limit, but evidently no length limit. That movie script was about 9000 words long.

50,138 characters make up 9,809 words, according to Notepad++.

Also, those types of comments fall under spamming so simply report them and we will hide them. That way they won't clutter the comment search.

NotMeNotYou said:
50,138 characters make up 9,809 words, according to Notepad++.

Also, those types of comments fall under spamming so simply report them and we will hide them. That way they won't clutter the comment search.

We just need to try and reach the bottom of them without skipping past them is all.

Clawdragons said:
I'd be fine with an auto-collapse of comments over a certain size, but I don't think it's necessary to actually prevent their creation as long as that is done.

agreed

There is a character limit, I think it is 2,147,483,647.

Is that a limit on number of characters really, or number of bytes?

(The difference being that 1 character can equal up to 4 bytes , so in the former case the byte limit would be something like 8,589,934,588. You could post a file of up to 5Gb as a comment, by using UTF8 as a kind of base-1048576 encoding.)

Is there ever a situation where a user needs to post a 2000+ character comment?

-1. Explanation below:

I guess we should simply have a specific rule against overly long posts insted, something like " do not post anything on forum with more than x characters, unless if is really necessary". The justification for this would be that sometimes creating long posts is necessary e.g. forum #218830 (I don't know how many characters it has and I won't count, but it probably has less than 5000).

O16 said:
-1. Explanation below:

I guess we should have a rule against overly long posts insted, something like " do not post anything on forum with more than x characters, unless if is really necessary". The justification for this would be that sometimes creating long posts is necessary e.g. forum #218830 (sorry but I don't know how many characters it has and I won't count, but it probably has less than 5000)

2729 characters, with 966 of those being 69 instances of → \[[mascot]]..

If this is going to be a thing I vote for auto-collapse and make it collapsed in searches, too, or just make only a certain amount of characters before and after the searched word visible in the search.

Im also for a auto-collapse function that specifically caps at any comment that exceeds 3 lines of text.

By the way does the website have a cap on how long a single line of text can be so it doesnt run continuously off screen?

Ruku said:
Im also for a auto-collapse function that specifically caps at any comment that exceeds 3 lines of text.

By the way does the website have a cap on how long a single line of text can be so it doesnt run continuously off screen?

Three lines? That's ridiculously low. This very comment right here is already seven lines long just because of quoting you. Make it something like fifteen or twenty.

Ruku said:
By the way does the website have a cap on how long a single line of text can be so it doesnt run continuously off screen?

If there is one, it's high. Too much text on a single line (without spaces) ends up messing the formatting in the comment search by stretching the window.

Might also mess up the formatting on the forum, but I'm not going to test that..

Furrin_Gok said:
Three lines? That's ridiculously low. This very comment right here is already seven lines long just because of quoting you. Make it something like fifteen or twenty.

true if you put it that way was only considering written text, not added quotes, that certainly complicates things a lil...