# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**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, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/21 "2023-12-23T20:02:39Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > fwiw, if you’re the original poster (ie it’s your own thread) then you can post more than 4 consecutive posts. While I’m at it I might as well test this. You know, for science. ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/22 "2023-12-23T20:03:03Z")
Testing 2. ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/23 "2023-12-23T20:03:12Z")
Testing 3. ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/24 "2023-12-23T20:03:23Z")
Testing 4. ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/25 "2023-12-23T20:03:34Z")
Testing 5. ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/26 "2023-12-23T20:03:44Z")
Testing 6. ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/27 "2023-12-23T20:03:59Z")
Testing 7. ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/28 "2023-12-23T20:04:11Z")
Testing 8. ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/29 "2023-12-23T20:04:23Z")
Testing 9. ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/30 "2023-12-23T20:04:45Z")
Testing 10. ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/31 "2023-12-23T20:04:59Z")
This one goes up to 11. ---
**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, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/32 "2023-12-23T20:07:54Z")
I guess you’re right, @pjd. Thanks again. ---
**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, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/33 "2023-12-23T20:12:21Z")
👍 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/34 "2023-12-23T22:25:00Z")
What’s weird about that is that it seems to encourage people to bump their own threads, or use a thread as something like a blog rather than a discussion. Both are things I don’t think mods want folks doing here. ---
**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, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/35 "2023-12-23T23:29:54Z")
I expect that as long as the discussion is on track it’s ok… As soon as it starts to get bloggy or unnecessarily bumptious the mods will invoke the relevant existing rules. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/36 "2023-12-27T20:13:12Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I think that well exceeds any realistic post with useful content I think my Karen Carpenter thread ran up against this limit. Fortunately, the OP had a natural splitting point, so was able to cut it in two with little difficulty: > [@The Carpenters: A (Re) Appreciation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carpenters-a-re-appreciation/950281): > > Dedicated to Karen, the first woman to make me cry [[Imgur] ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51434433656/) ”Love of beauty is taste. Creation of beauty is art.”, Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday Once More IT ALL started… the melancholy music, the sense of failure, the addiction, her body dysmorphia, all of this and more powering the most soothing and tragedy-filled contralto of her generation… it all started, and will end, with her brother Richard. Born in New Haven, CT to Harold Carpenter and Agnes Tatum … ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/37 "2024-01-10T00:58:16Z")
Don’t want to start a whole new thread about this, and maybe it fits here, sort of: Grumble, grumf. I just made a post, realized almost instantly it was in the wrong thread, and edited it by cutting the content onto my clipboard and replacing it with “nm, wrong thread.” So far, so good. I then went to the right thread, hit reply, pasted the content removed from the wrong thread into the reply box, and tried to post it there. Discus refused, on the grounds that it was too similar to what I’d just posted elsewhere. I suppose this is meant to prevent people from copypastaing the same thing into dozens of threads. But it just prevented me from doing something entirely reasonable. I wonder if it’ll work if I try again a while later? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/38 "2024-01-10T23:16:01Z")
I bet it will or maybe a couple of different posts in the interim ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015/39 "2024-01-11T02:03:07Z")
I did eventually try a while later and it did go through. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-words-characters-per-post-and-on-consecutive-posts-by-the-same-poster/995015.md?page=1)