16-07-2002 12:14									#1
	20 000 characters limit per message?? Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Hi,
recieved the other day while submitting a message to apolyton forums a popup stating that my message has to be less than 20 000 characters.
(Is this the cind of communist regim that wants to limit our freedom of speed, or? )


Now to the question:
Is this limit a Anolyton administrative desicion or a featrure of vBulletin software?
Just curious...

	16-07-2002 12:16									#2
	Increase Your PM Length

Both, I believe. You can set whatever the limit is in the vbulletin control panel, but I believe there has to be some sort of limit.

	16-07-2002 12:29									#3
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

we live for every kind of chance we can get to limit your free speech. even in the number of characters!

	16-07-2002 20:06									#4
	Got spare money?

Had not realized the country flag thing. So I posted something about it to Markos. No need for it now. Can delete if you would like to.

Last edited by tniem on 16-07-2002 at 20:12

	16-07-2002 23:30									#5
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

I think it's been around for quite a while...I've run into it once or twice.

	17-07-2002 01:04									#6
	Tired of ads?

Just split over two posts. If that isn't enough to complete your message, just publish it in paperback.

	17-07-2002 01:27									#7
	Increase Your PM Length

Hmmm, can this be made forum-specific?
For instance, in AC-Fiction (and Civ3-Stories?) the limit could be 50k (the longest post I've written was around that and I had to cut it to fit two posts).

	17-07-2002 05:10									#8
	Get a bigger avatar today!

If you are writing that much, you deserve +4 or 5 to your post count.

	17-07-2002 14:30									#9
	Increase Your PM Length

Yes, I've run into this limit in dozens of times in the past, it can be very annoying. Lately I've been using a more spammy post style to avoid this problem (<b></b> ), which seems to be working. Especially when using HTML, which can require a lot of characters to post little text, you run into the limit quickly. But when posting rankings or overviews in general 20,000 characters is not much (FAQs, reference lists, (parts of) text files in Creation forums, content descriptions of mods/scenarios, Expansion Pack Civs lists , etc).

Unfortuantely, I've complained about this many times before, but to no avail. I guess the owners simply prefer you to spam

	17-07-2002 14:44									#10
	Full PM-box? Change here!

Kass has a point. In the fiction forums it can be a slight problem especially with some of us who tend to write longer posts.

	18-07-2002 01:30									#11
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns If you are writing that much, you deserve +4 or 5 to your post count.

Forget it! Forget it!
(Nah, if I want PC I'll spam the Discussion threads )

	18-07-2002 02:13									#12
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

I also run into this limit sometimes. Mostly when using HTML-formatting of the posts, but also some other times.