Words Limits?

On December 11 2011 23:03 tofucake wrote:
Keep typing...find out

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We're sorry, but the post you're trying to make is over 100000 characters long. No one wants to read that much text! If you think you have a valid reason for wanting to make a post this big, bring this issue up in the Website Feedback forum. (Note: if you're doing a copy/paste from somewhere else, just summarize and link to the original source.)

On December 12 2011 02:27 MasterOfChaos wrote:
There is a length limit of 100 000 characters per post. You'll get the following error if you try:

I assume if you really need such a big post, you can contact R1CH to put it directly into the database.

There is also a limit of 100 images per post, but you're allowed to create a post with so many images, they'll just get rendered as links instead of embedded images afterwards.

On December 13 2011 01:38 gogogadgetflow wrote:
Is there a a limit for total characters/posts/pages in any thread/forum?

On December 13 2011 03:05 GMarshal wrote:

As threads grow in size ,they approach critical mass, when they hit a predetermined number of posts they go critical and "explode" becoming locked or deleted or in other cases vanishing altogether. Sometimes this also results in the spontaneous creation of a subforum around the thread, (this is how health and fitness got its own sub-forum). To avoid this mods make an active effort to close as many threads a possible, and to delete posts, as we risk the very fabric of the forum being rent asunder by the sheer mass of sub forums. The process of reaching critical mass is nebulous, but it is known that bans occurring in and around the thread can fuel it even further. This is why you must give careful thought before opening a new thread or posting in an already bloated thread. The Anime discussion thread ,for example, is approaching critical mass, responsible posters will stay away, current measurements give a higgs-plank destruction number of 7.43 which is only 0.8 away from the mass of the LoL thread before it went critical.

There is actually a similar phenomenon present with post counts, where reaching a critical mass will cause the person's profile to undergo extreme changes, examples are when tortedelini had his icon in a state of quantum uncertainty and the ever bewildering thedeadhaji reversed post count.

Current theories suggest that TL.Bot is a manifestation of a previous TL.net forum that collapsed when it reached a critical mass of subforums, and that TL.Bot fell through time and space to reach us in its current state.

Remember: post responsibly! TL is a fascinating and dangerous place, and few really understand its inner workings.

On December 13 2011 03:05 GMarshal wrote:

As threads grow in size ,they approach critical mass, when they hit a predetermined number of posts they go critical and "explode" becoming locked or deleted or in other cases vanishing altogether. Sometimes this also results in the spontaneous creation of a subforum around the thread, (this is how health and fitness got its own sub-forum). To avoid this mods make an active effort to close as many threads a possible, and to delete posts, as we risk the very fabric of the forum being rent asunder by the sheer mass of sub forums. The process of reaching critical mass is nebulous, but it is known that bans occurring in and around the thread can fuel it even further. This is why you must give careful thought before opening a new thread or posting in an already bloated thread. The Anime discussion thread ,for example, is approaching critical mass, responsible posters will stay away, current measurements give a higgs-plank destruction number of 7.43 which is only 0.8 away from the mass of the LoL thread before it went critical.

There is actually a similar phenomenon present with post counts, where reaching a critical mass will cause the person's profile to undergo extreme changes, examples are when tortedelini had his icon in a state of quantum uncertainty and the ever bewildering thedeadhaji reversed post count.

Current theories suggest that TL.Bot is a manifestation of a previous TL.net forum that collapsed when it reached a critical mass of subforums, and that TL.Bot fell through time and space to reach us in its current state.

Remember: post responsibly! TL is a fascinating and dangerous place, and few really understand its inner workings.