10K Character Limit

[PotatoOfCouch13]

16th!

[free2131]

I think it's fine the way it i...



Uh... Uh... I mean 17th... yeah 17th... ha ha...










...no, no, I don't find it amusing. I swear...

[OregonDuck1989]

What you think I'm funny? Like a clown? Do I amuse you?

[Rongar]

It's no biggie...in Dynasty, it only arises in Recap if there has been a lot of hitting...and the "7th inning stretch" takes care of that. (see the "Brooklyn Knights" & "Canajun Ehs" dynasties)

As for the rest, do we really want people (like Rongar) to go on and on "until the crack of doom" in a post?

When all is said and done, these forums exist for writers, not readers (except in the case of seekers after game and tech advice)

[SirKodiak]

When I wrote my Pitching Guide, I was always running up against this. So I always used an editor and then cut and pasted. Never lose anything. I used Notepad++, but any that allow for a character count (especially on the fly) work. Just save room any markup you plan to do.

[T 980]

18th'ed?

[CatKnight]

I think most people use an editor at this point. However, that does not mean I don't find it annoying to either have to go through line by line and try to figure out where I can spare 247 characters, or find a good point where I can stop and pause without breaking up an important scene or thought.

It would not be so much of a biggie if I could think of one legitimate reason it's in there. It doesn't stop spammers. It doesn't save on bandwidth - possibly just the opposite since I'm making a brand new message and transmitting that. I can see an argument for people not wanting to look at more than 10K characters at once (apx. 2000 words of prose), but again all it's encouraging me to do is mutter, find a good place to cut, then make a second post seconds after the old one.

[Mizerak]

Agreed...and now that the Box Score Parser can spit out stats in CODE fragments, which are scrollable and therefore do not take up huge amounts of space, there is no real reason for this limit.

[Rongar]

When one writes a letter with the intent of having it published in a newspaper,
the restriction is something like 250 words...don't you think that if a similar limit
existed in these forums, we'd spend less time writing, and more time thinking about what we were to write?

[Mizerak]

When one writes a letter with the intent of having it published in a newspaper,
the restriction is something like 250 words...don't you think that if a similar limit
existed in these forums, we'd spend less time writing, and more time thinking about what we were to write?

Yes and no...if you can separate the written stuff from the CODE data, that would be fine. But if you cannot, it takes multiple posts to show team data and that does not really make sense.

Also, the limit in a newspaper has to do with costs. It does not cost anything more to have a post of 20,000 characters vs. 10,000. I am not opposed to a limit, but it should be raised.

[HoustonGM]

A 250 word limit would stifle most discussion.

[MichelleWie]

A 250 word limit would stifle most discussion.

That might be a good thing........

[HoustonGM]

No, it wouldn't....nevermind the fact that it would basically render dynasty-writing moot, which was what this thread was referencing in the first place. This is a message board, not Twitter.

[MichelleWie]

Actually I was being a smart -ass, but depending on the conversation it probably would be a good thing.

[CatKnight]

When one writes a letter with the intent of having it published in a newspaper,
the restriction is something like 250 words...don't you think that if a similar limit
existed in these forums, we'd spend less time writing, and more time thinking about what we were to write?

So..tell me something Rongar.

Let's say you spend 1 or 2 hours writing a post in an editor. You try and post, and it tells you the limit is 250 words (as an example).

Now...are you REALLY going to be inclined to sit down and edit your post down to 250 words? Of course not, that's absurd. As Houston said, it would pretty much render dynasty writing moot - no one would want to deal with that kind of limit.

Would any kind of limit encourage me to spend more time 'thinking' about what to write? Again, no. This isn't a professional situation where anyone here is being paid to make their post as tight and seamless as possible - and I assure you there's no way to knock 2000 words (about 10K characters) to 250 without losing meaning.

What a harsher limit would encourage me to do is either 1) stop trying - which no doubt some might be happy with, but if enough people stop then that's the end of the dynasty forum, or 2) chop my entries up into even smaller pieces.

Which is harder on the reader I wonder...one post that might be slightly too long for their taste, or three posts back-to-back-to-back with pretty much the same word count?