420 character statuses?

[CountVanBadger]

Is there a reason why our profile statuses can't be more than 420 characters long? They don't appear on the front page except for the sidebar, which automatically hides them if they're bigger than a certain size anyway, so it's not like we'd be competing with them for space or anything. It just seems like such a restrictive limitation. I just wrote a short passage in XNPC that I thought was hilarious and wanted to share it, but it wouldn't let me because it was more than 420 characters long. I trimmed out everything I could, but it still wasn't short enough. The only way I could have gotten it below 420 characters was to either resort to txt spk, or cut out the parts that made it so funny to begin with. It was stupidly frustrating, and now I don't even want to share it anymore.

Maybe there's a good reason why they have to be 420 characters or less, but I can't think of one. Is this something that can be changed?

 

[Eldoria]

~400 words makes us think efficiently in writing. Lol

 

[CountVanBadger]

~400 words makes us think efficiently in writing. Lol

Not 400 words, 400 characters. And that includes punctuation and the spaces between words.

 

[Alski]

Because tony wants his weed reference.

 

[Rosica]

Xenforo issues.

 

[Ai-chan]

If there is no limit, there will always be people who write long-ass war propaganda on their profile status. Or stock market analysis.

 

[Kurayami]

Skill issue. Just write a long post in a document, and post a picture of that post.

 

[Madkins]

Skill issue. Just write a long post in a document, and post a picture of that post.

You just made it so i can say even dumber things. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

 

[CountVanBadger]

If there is no limit, there will always be people who write long-ass war propaganda on their profile status. Or stock market analysis.

So what? If it's against the rules, the mods will delete it. Otherwise, what does it matter how long it is? You can only see it from the sidebar on the main page, and it always cuts it off at the same place anyway. Literally nobody is negatively effected by people being able to make longer status posts.

 

[Ai-chan]

So what? If it's against the rules, the mods will delete it. Otherwise, what does it matter how long it is? You can only see it from the main page, and it always cuts it off at the same place anyway. Literally nobody is negatively effected by people being able to make longer status posts.

Oh sure, if it's not against the rules.

But imagine everyone writing a long-ass profile post, and you need to scroll all the way down to Hell to see what people before that post and that other post and that post said. You won't be the only one doing it. Everyone will do it and everyone will go to level 9999 just to promote their book.

Legal restrains are necessary because when allowed to do as they wish, people have no restrain. Selfishness runs from birth.

 

[CountVanBadger]

But imagine everyone writing a long-ass profile post, and you need to scroll all the way down to Hell to see what people before that post

It always cuts them off at the same place and you have to click on it to read the whole thing. Letting them be longer wouldn't change anything.