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Subject: Character Limit

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Use your head. The one on your shoulders. No really, just try. Please?

˙sɹǝʇndɯoɔ ɥʇıʍ pooƃ os ʇou ɯ,ı 'ǝɹǝɥ ʇǝƃ sıɥʇ pıp ʍoɥ 'lol

Poll: Should there be a character limit per word(in titles)?  [closed]
Yes:  88%
(14 Votes)
No:  12%
(2 Votes)
Total Votes: 16

How often do links and excessive punctuation breach the borders of the forum, creating a distorted page for you to sift through? I know of quite a few instances, the most recent one has lasted for over 6 hours.

I suggest a new feature for the forums, a character limit for the words in the title of each thread. To my knowledge there is no Halo related word that exceeds 20 characters. By limiting the characters per word in the title, it would stop some spammers. There is no need for a topic title to be "AAAHHH...." into the 40 or so character range. It isn't funny, it isn't cute, and it probably irritates a lot of you out there.

  • 08.25.2005 8:29 AM PDT
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I'd definitely like to see this. Massive topic titles really do mess up the Forum table's layout.

  • 08.25.2005 8:30 AM PDT

I hate everything, but it's not my fault.

That would be very helpful, although Achronos seems to be hard at work keeping the site running and making the Search. If he could find time for it though, I think it would make the forums slightly better and would at the very least make the mods' job that much easier.

  • 08.25.2005 8:43 AM PDT
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Yeah. I like that idea.


Posted by: Ghandi 2
That would be very helpful, although Achronos seems to be hard at work keeping the site running and making the Search. If he could find time for it though, I think it would make the forums slightly better and would at the very least make the mods' job that much easier.


Where DO you get all of your info?

  • 08.25.2005 8:53 AM PDT
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TSP

  • 08.25.2005 8:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: Kilroy
Yeah. I like that idea.


Posted by: Ghandi 2
That would be very helpful, although Achronos seems to be hard at work keeping the site running and making the Search. If he could find time for it though, I think it would make the forums slightly better and would at the very least make the mods' job that much easier.


Where DO you get all of your info?


Various posts. It helps to have been around for a while, you pick up things, such as information about the search feature.

  • 08.25.2005 8:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: Gnome
TSP


Everyone says that. What does it mean? It's getting really annoying not knowing...

  • 08.25.2005 9:02 AM PDT
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To see posts, I presume.

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Posted by: Kilroy
Posted by: Gnome
TSP


Everyone says that. What does it mean? It's getting really annoying not knowing...

To see post. I had posted something on your thread, but it never showed up, so i posted again in hopes of then i could see it. But to no avail.

  • 08.25.2005 9:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: Gnome
Posted by: Kilroy
Posted by: Gnome
TSP


Everyone says that. What does it mean? It's getting really annoying not knowing...

To see post. I had posted something on your thread, but it never showed up, so i posted again in hopes of then i could see it. But to no avail.


Now I'm even more confused. I know what it stands fro now, but absoluetly no idea what you mean. Well, maybe just an idea. You posted something. For some reason, it didn't show up. So you wrote that. Oh, is it a link?

  • 08.25.2005 9:19 AM PDT
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Posted by: Kilroy
Posted by: Gnome
Posted by: Kilroy
Posted by: Gnome
TSP


Everyone says that. What does it mean? It's getting really annoying not knowing...

To see post. I had posted something on your thread, but it never showed up, so i posted again in hopes of then i could see it. But to no avail.


Now I'm even more confused. I know what it stands fro now, but absoluetly no idea what you mean. Well, maybe just an idea. You posted something. For some reason, it didn't show up. So you wrote that. Oh, is it a link?

Ok, when your looking at Threads it shows you who posted last. Sometimes when you open a thread for some odd reason it wont show you the last posts. You can either leave and come back latter, or it helps to add a post to it. Im not the best at explaining things. ::)

[Edited on 8/25/2005]

  • 08.25.2005 9:23 AM PDT
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Oh okay. That made a lot more sense. Thanks. I finally get i.

  • 08.25.2005 9:47 AM PDT
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haha. Excessive quoting. Have you ever made a pyramid here? hehe. That's great fun.

  • 08.25.2005 12:22 PM PDT
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A great idea, but comfort is not as important as performance.

I'd rather have this site running with no bugs (for everyone) or glitches than have a half-baked search.

  • 08.25.2005 5:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Kilroy
haha. Excessive quoting. Have you ever made a pyramid here? hehe. That's great fun.


That's something I suggest you don't partake in. The last time a quote pyramid happened around here, about forty people got blacklisted in The Flood.

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There needs to be a better way to respond to what some one said, other than just copying their post. Mabye it can just say To SoandSo:, or something along those lines. Looking at a giant page of 5,000 people's post cpyied over and over is annoying.

  • 08.25.2005 5:35 PM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Posted by: Psyched
I'd definitely like to see this. Massive topic titles really do mess up the Forum table's layout.


I think we could balme this on the Theme masters MB?

  • 08.25.2005 5:36 PM PDT
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I would love this.

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Posted by: Tazmaniandude
Posted by: Kilroy
haha. Excessive quoting. Have you ever made a pyramid here? hehe. That's great fun.


That's something I suggest you don't partake in. The last time a quote pyramid happened around here, about forty people got blacklisted in The Flood.


Haha. That doesn't surprise me. I would never to that in a main forum. But in a group, it's perfectly okay.

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Haha. Did any of you see that post by elitebusteris-blam!-? It was so dumb. I was thinking of reporting it, but knew that it would be gone in seconds anyways. And sure enough, it was.

  • 08.25.2005 6:00 PM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

report it... ALWAYS...

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I almost always do. I was gonna wait a minute and see if anyone noticed or not. And they did.

  • 08.25.2005 6:07 PM PDT
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Fun Fact
The current character limit is 75!. So i think that if it were limited down to 45 that would be short enough to stop the thing your talking about, but still be long enough for people to know what the thread is.

  • 08.25.2005 6:34 PM PDT

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