I don’t know how to link directly to it but AHunter3’s post in IMHO is one of the longest I remember seeing. So, what is the longest single post on the Dope?
Step 1: Go to said link and highlight the address bar.
Step 2: right click, select “copy”
Step 3: Come back to this thread and hit post reply
Step 4: Click on the chain icon just above the posting box.
Step 5: Right click again inside the pop up box
Step 6: Select “paste”.
Step 7: click “OK”
Step 8: click “submit reply”.
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AHunter3’s post in IMHO is one of the longest I remember seeing. So, what is the longest single post on the Dope?
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I’m sure there are many longer than that one. Admittedly, I probably made most of them :smack:
For some of our drive-by witnessers, that’s barely warming up.
ETA: there was one, somewhat recently, each post was much longer than that and ended with: (continued in next post) and that went 4 maybe 5 posts like that.
I don’t think it was just one post, but there was a poster who posted a quite entertaining history of the Byzantine Empire awhile back.
Some of the replies to “What if someone else had written The Hobbit/ LOTR?” thread were very long.
There used to be an actual character limit on posts. I remember running into this problem once, and having to split my post into two separate posts because vBulletin said they were too long.
That was quite a long time ago, though, and i’m not sure if the size limit on posts is still in effect.
The time i had to split was in my discussion of Christopher Hitchens’ review of Fahrenheit 911.
What’s a “chain icon”? The link icon with a globe and what I guess is a little piece of chain?
Does the board handle post links differently than others? (Never looked, I guess.)
The limit was still in place the one time I played Mafia, a year or two ago. I hit it when I was trying to air grievances against another player. I want to say it was ~25,000 characters.
Nah, your description is more accurate than mine.
You needed the equivalent of 20 pages to tell someone off? I’d hate to see your Twitter feed “(1/1876)”
I don’t know what the longest post is, but the board supports posts up to 25000 characters long.
The post in question is less than half of that.
I don’t go half way.
No, I wasn’t actually telling anyone off. I was going through another player’s posts one by one and building a case for lynching him (if you haven’t played Mafia, it may not make sense. Hell, I have played Mafia, and I’m not sure it entirely makes sense to me.)
I went back to that game and confirmed the post limit was 25K characters at the time. I had to cut some to get under the wire. So mhendo and I, and presumably others, are probably tied to for the lead in longest posts.
Gosh do I want to be the guy who posts 25000 characters in a spoiler not including the characters above it and of the “Spoiler” code itself. As a test, like all the other test posts, and I know the hamsters really don’t give a shit.
But I won’t.
I want the 15 minutes back it took to read that spoiler.