Anyone know what the word/character limit is for each post?
Thanks,
Chris
No.
(I can put my wife on here to see, though)
There are a few members here than can be quite long in their posts… No apparent limit on those noticed yet.
Long rambles more than a paragraph remain mostly unread unless broken up in point form.
Hi Chris,
There isn’t a character limit, although, as suppression says, if long posts ain’t in paragraphs, they’re probably going to go unread.
Have you encountered a problem?
I agree about long posts, especially with no paragraphs. But even so, if it goes much beyond what I can see on my monitor without scrolling I likely will not scroll down very far before losing interest.
Same thing with pictures. I love posts with a few pictures, but 20 or 30 or more are too much. I give up.
Is there a limit on the number of photos in posts? Not having any problem, just curious. Another forum I belong to limits us to 10 photos per post (I use Photobucket and link them).
There is a limit to how long a post can be for some people, especially the newbies to this forum/software. It can be fixed, however.
If you just use the reply box at the bottom a a thread, you get to typing along, and you might discover that after you have typed any fairly long page, the Blue Reply button has disappeared.
To fix this if it happens to you, you can then use Control-X for the last two-thirds of your post, this shrinks your reply box back down so the button shows, then you click on “Use rich formatting” and paste your 2/3 post back into place,they you can continue typing and you will have the Reply button again when you finish.
You don’t have to believe me, just type abc, Enter, abc, Enter a bunch of times and you will see the limit that the button disappears.
Rex
I haven’t encountered any problems, Tim (and all).
I’m a free lance writer and I will occasionally share an essay on any given forum where I’m a member, like on the offroad forum, modeling forums, writing, etc. I wanted to do that here in the Ready Room, but it’s 13,000 words and if there is no way to format paragraphs it will be a difficult read.
Chris
I’ve gotten into the habit of hitting the “Return” key twice when I want to end a paragraph. That produces a gap, rather than indentation, but I think it serves the purpose.
I wish I had a dollar for every college undergraduate who’s had to listen to my paragraph sermon. “Your entire essay consists of one paragraph. That tells me you aren’t THINKING in paragraphs. And if you don’t think in paragraphs you can’t write a coherent essay.”
Perhaps some post should be limited in content. Who is to be assigned this task? Who authorizes him to set a limit? What if you disagree with that length (either too long or too short)? What if your post is found to be noncompliant to the “new post order” ? or is it just the other guys posts that are the problem?
Yes possibly some readers may become bored or in too much in a hurry to bother with a whole post. Perhaps in this “text message age” there is an expectation of brevity, abbreviations, character symbols, even at the loss of true clarity. However if the author is trying to get a particular point across, make a statement, sway an opinion or even advance an opinion. The the length of the post should be as long as the author feels is needed to accomplish that task.
It would then fall to the reader to continue on or stop. There are no extra points for finishing a long post; Just as there are no extra points for writing a short post.
To paraphrase, one mans overlong post is another mans succinct explanation.
Pardon me, but my current model awaits
Seems to me that there’s a simple remedy for posts that a particular Forum member thinks are too long.
Don’t read them.
Nowadays that’s my response to just about any big mass of words that isn’t broken into reasonable paragraphs. I had to read tons of such stuff when I was in school, and I still have to choke down my share of it in student exams, papers, and theses. Now I’m semi-retired, so I can pick the books I WANT to read. And I certainly don’t have to plow through marathon, un-paragraphed posts in a hobby forum.
I do remember an anecdote I heard from a museum curator. As a test, the museum put up an enormous label for an exhibit - one paragraph of about 200 words. About 2/3 of the way through was the sentence: “If you’ve read this far, go to the front desk and claim your cash prize.” Nobody ever did.
Over in the “Ships” Forum, fortunately, super-long posts don’t seem to be much of a problem. I’m probably the worst offender - and mine are, at least, broken up into paragraphs.
Hey , Proff !
I do try , Honestly . Sometimes it comes out in a jumble . And I certainly didn’t write it that way .
13,000 words in these little boxes! Yikes!! That’s past my limit for sure. Why not just provide a link with a description of what a reader will get out of it if he reads it?
or a TL;DR
Wow. All this from a question on character limits…