Character limit discussion

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OK i am giving up and my head is exploding.

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why? God? I am cursed!

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ok stop it my heart is exploding

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Back to actual constructive conversation, the 20chr limit is annoying, but it does help keep content useful. While I think even dropping it down to 10 or 15 would help, I’m not sure it’s worth the admins’ time to work out.

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@Got_a_Screw_Loose I hate you lol

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I get that a lot

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Alt + numpad 255 types a blank character which allows you to work around it :wink:

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That’s not how I do it.

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easier way

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How do you do it? My computer doesn’t have a num pad :sob: pls don’t prank me or I can’t sleep! :joy:

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Google: exists

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Like this

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Yes the Google. “HTML hidden text codes” or “hide text in forums” or the like.

:musical_note: But if you use it, don’t abuse it, or we all lose it. :musical_note:

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This may be a good place to mention the tampermonkey script I recently wrote to easily view the source of any post on this forum.

My script adds a link to the bottom of every post, which opens its plaintext source in a new tab. This might be useful to see how someone else evaded the 20 character limit, or did some other cool formatting thing which you might want to replicate in the future.

Disclaimers:

  1. Yes, my JavaScript is kind of terrible. I don’t normally write a lot of JavaScript.
  2. This script usually only shows the link after a page reload, for reasons I haven’t nailed down yet (see disclaimer #1).
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Bypassing the 20 character minimun is much simpler than any of the ways you guys posted

Edit: I believe all the ways you guys did it is traceable. Traceable being you can “inspect” the page and figure out how people bypassed it

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See

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my way isn’t found by inspecting my posts.

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The trick is to clutter up the post with useless html tags.
If you see the above post’s source - https://www.vexforum.com/raw/64454/38 you can see what they did.
You could also insert useless div class tags or other bloat, anything at all (you can just put <twentycharacterlimit> in your post, it gets cleaned by discourse).
The other approach is by inserting a whole bunch of 0-width spaces.

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awwww you guys got it. The days of flexing our character limit bypass skills are over, boys.