# Do i have to ask permission to have a long "Location" in my profile?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-to-ask-permission-to-have-a-long-location-in-my-profile/102369>\
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**Created:** [April 7, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-to-ask-permission-to-have-a-long-location-in-my-profile/102369 "2002-04-07T21:34:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-to-ask-permission-to-have-a-long-location-in-my-profile/102369/1 "2002-04-07T21:34:44Z")

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i can’t seem to get everything in there, and i see people with humongous amounts of text there. If so, can somone please add “aka Barsoom” to the end of mine? it cuts off after the aka.  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-to-ask-permission-to-have-a-long-location-in-my-profile/102369/2 "2002-04-08T00:39:18Z")

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AFAIK, you can’t enter a long location any more.

Here’s what apparently happened. When the board came back up, you could enter a long location. Soon after that, the PTB decided that was confusing and limited new or changed ones to 25 characters.

If someone with a long location ever decides to change it, the location will be truncated to 25 chacters.

This is discussed in this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=106215](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=106215)

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-to-ask-permission-to-have-a-long-location-in-my-profile/102369/3 "2002-04-08T08:14:25Z")

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What rowrrbazzle said.

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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-to-ask-permission-to-have-a-long-location-in-my-profile/102369/4 "2002-04-08T17:26:40Z")

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okay, thanks!

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-to-ask-permission-to-have-a-long-location-in-my-profile/102369/5 "2002-04-08T21:09:57Z")

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C’mon, most of the SDMB world knows where Thark is!

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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-have-to-ask-permission-to-have-a-long-location-in-my-profile/102369/7 "2002-04-10T16:16:58Z")

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Mars, baby!