# Limits on words/characters per post, and on consecutive posts by the same poster **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [December 22, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015 "2023-12-22T23:17:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/1 "2023-12-22T23:17:25Z")
Is there a limit to the number of words or characters in a post under Discourse? Does Discourse prevent a single poster from posting more than a certain number of posts in a row? IOW, if I want to create a fairly lengthy post, will I have to break it up into multiple separate poets, and if so, will I be limited in the number I can post sequentially? (Someone asked this question in 2010 about vBulletin, but I assume the answer is different now.) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/2 "2023-12-22T23:18:21Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Does Discourse prevent a single poster from posting more than a certain number of posts in a row? It nags you if you post several times in a row, but I don’t think it **prevents** you from doing so. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/3 "2023-12-22T23:46:19Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > It nags you if you post several times in a row, but I don’t think it **prevents** you from doing so. - I got blocked on trying a fourth post in one of the scam threads. The message was along the lines of " Stop hogging the thread, let others post". Like anyone else was prevented from posting by someone posting several times in a row. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/4 "2023-12-22T23:47:09Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Is there a limit to the number of words or characters in a post under Discourse? > > Does Discourse prevent a single poster from posting more than a certain number of posts in a row? > > IOW, if I want to create a fairly lengthy post, will I have to break it up into multiple separate poets, and if so, will I be limited in the number I can post sequentially? > > (Someone asked this question in 2010 about vBulletin, but I assume the answer is different now.) Lets try it out. Post 2 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/5 "2023-12-22T23:47:24Z")
Post 3 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/6 "2023-12-22T23:47:37Z")
Post 4 ETA: blocked post 5. > An error occurred: No more than 4 consecutive replies are allowed. Please edit your previous reply, or wait for someone to reply to you. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/7 "2023-12-23T00:04:51Z")
Well if you’re going to get all pragmatic and stuff, I guess two can play at that game. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/8 "2023-12-23T00:04:57Z")
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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/9 "2023-12-23T00:07:11Z")
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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/10 "2023-12-23T00:07:38Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > ETA: blocked post 5. I stand corrected on this. 🙂 It wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a character limit (and it looks like @commasense is testing that out), but I do know that I’ve seen some pretty lengthy posts here. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/11 "2023-12-23T00:08:56Z")
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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/12 "2023-12-23T00:09:27Z")
Okay, well that answers my questions for now. FYI, that last post is 19,200 characters, not including spaces, and 23,199 including spaces. Thanks all. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/13 "2023-12-23T00:12:15Z")
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**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/14 "2023-12-23T01:48:26Z")
I think that well exceeds any realistic post with useful content. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/15 "2023-12-23T02:21:49Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > useful content. I wouldn’t lay odds on that always being the case. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/16 "2023-12-23T09:41:23Z")
fwiw, if you’re the original poster (ie it’s your own thread) then you can post more than 4 consecutive posts. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/17 "2023-12-23T11:29:25Z")
I suspect any limit on post length would be a function of your browser rather than anything on the Discourse server. By default the maximum number of characters allowed by an HTML element 524,288. I don’t know if this is what Discourse uses for its text input area (and I don’t care to parse through the HTML and/or Javascript to find out) but it’s probably something similar. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/18 "2023-12-23T11:42:54Z")
I think the maximum length of posts is 150,000 characters, which is also the default. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/19 "2023-12-23T12:37:13Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > I think the maximum length of posts is 150,000 characters, which is also > the default. - I tried to do a joke and got this. (I quoted all of @commasense posts and replied with TL;DR.) > An error occurred: Body is limited to 32000 characters; you entered 40208. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/20 "2023-12-23T14:17:21Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > fwiw, if you’re the original poster (ie it’s your own thread) then you can post more > than 4 consecutive posts. > [@running\_coach](#): > > I tried to do a joke and got this. > (I quoted all of @commasense posts and replied with TL;DR.) > > > An error occurred: Body is limited to 32000 characters; you entered 40208. Useful information, guys. Thank you! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015.md?page=2)