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    nightmare investigator monolith94's Avatar
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    does a character limit make sense?

    I know that the current character limit is long enough so that it is very rarely encountered, but when it is encountered it is somewhat annoying. But – is it really necessary? It forced me to split a film essay I wrote into a couple of posts, and it forced sxottlan to split his list of ten favorite films from 2007 in twain.

    Just a thought, and definitely not a huge deal, but I just thought I'd bring it up, for the benefit of the more long-winded…
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    I'm in the milk... Mara's Avatar
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    I had to split my Slayer essay into, like, ten posts.

    But posts are rarely that long. I can only see a character limit making sense if it is regularly abused.

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    This brings to mind "Limits are meant to be broken." Or something like it. I think I heard it in a movie somewhere. I'm not sure.

    Anyways I have no problem with the character limits. They exist for reasons my mind cannot even fathom. My. Mind. Is. Blown.
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    Montage, s'il vous plait? Raiders's Avatar
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    Clearly the limit is not the problem, but that you people write way too damn much. I think you could use a lesson in the ways of the "meh" and "the pan" and of the :| and ritch:.
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    Heheheh.

    It's probably embedded deeply into the coding of the board and there's nothing you can do about it, right Raiders?
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