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Increase Max Character Count?

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JayhawkCO:
This is more of a personal request than anything else I guess, but in my thread - https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=28578.0, I'm running up against the max character count for my table in the OP that allows me to put GSV links on all of the data. I understand the reasoning for having a max, but I don't believe it's really an issue for anyone other than me at the moment, i.e. I don't see spammers or trolls putting a whole bunch of crap into one post vs. just doing multiple posts. Any chance we can bump that up to at least 30K or eliminate it altogether?

1:
I just want to confirm that you're still using the tricks I mentioned, right? Because the software automatically re-inserts the skipped tags and the "http", you'll have to manually remove them each time you edit the post.

JayhawkCO:

--- Quote from: 1 on April 28, 2023, 12:10:50 PM ---I just want to confirm that you're still using the tricks I mentioned, right? Because the software automatically re-inserts the skipped tags and the "http", you'll have to manually remove them each time you edit the post.

--- End quote ---

Yep. I've trimmed everything I can (including some of the column headers) and I'm still sitting at 25,351 characters according to Word and that's not including the introduction to the post. Again, this is a specific example, but until I see a reason to have a limit, it seems like it's not providing any benefit to anyone (i.e. the mods) and just being a pain for me in this specific case.

JoePCool14:
Can we increase it for users above a certain rank? It's unlikely you'll stick around past 500 or even 100 posts just to post spam.

odditude:
forward solution i've seen on other boards: when the first post is an info post that's intended to be regularly updated, immediately post a self-reply with "<reserved for updates>" or somesuch. once the first post gets too big, continue on post #2.

if on this board mods/admins can manually insert a reply, this is suitable for the post at hand, as well.

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