# Ok, ten thousand posts might be a problem **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072 "2020-06-22T03:11:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/1 "2020-06-22T03:11:20Z")
Just visited the good old Clusterfuck thread. Skypist replied to it, which triggered an auto-lock because threads may not have more than 10,000 posts it them. Is that fixable, or do we just have to adapt? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/2 "2020-06-22T03:30:54Z")
NOOOOOOO! We cannot lose that thread! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/3 "2020-06-22T03:37:34Z")
Just started a new thread in the BBQ pit, just in case we have to start anew. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/4 "2020-06-22T03:44:04Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Just visited the good old Clusterfuck thread. Skypist replied to it, which triggered an auto-lock because threads may not have more than 10,000 posts it them. Is that fixable, or do we just have to adapt? There aren’t many threads like that, but I’d consider it a moderately significant issue. Navigation through very long threads is actually not a problem – you just move the scrollbar. Oddly, it doesn’t seem to put you where you think it should, but turning the scrollwheel afterwards immediately does. But having a thread autolock after 10,000 posts or whatever is a Bad Thing and perhaps a bug. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/5 "2020-06-22T03:45:28Z")
Long ago people were complaining that the Clusterfuck thread was too long, so I started a new one and people had a hissy fit. I decided to look for that one again, and [Google finds it](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=832505), but the forum software says it doesn’t exist or is private. So that’s some sort of bug. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/6 "2020-06-22T03:49:11Z")
Hm. All my bookmarks do the same. All dead links. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/7 "2020-06-22T07:16:00Z")
@TubaDiva yeah, so if you don’t want all ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/8 "2020-06-22T07:19:03Z")
your long threads to auto-close, you must change ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/9 "2020-06-22T07:20:30Z")
the `auto_close_topics_post_count` setting ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/10 "2020-06-22T07:36:42Z")
Okay, found the setting. Changed it. Re-Opened the closed thread that was creating so much angst. Changed the maximum character count in a post while I ws at it. Hope this makes things better. Sorry about that. Jenny your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/11 "2020-06-22T11:05:06Z")
Awesome thanks TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![yarblek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/71e660/32.png) [@yarblek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yarblek)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/12 "2020-06-22T13:21:22Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Changed the maximum character count in a post while I ws at it. What is the maximum now? ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/13 "2020-06-22T14:20:14Z")
Well, my manifesto is 200,000 characters, so keep that in consideration. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/14 "2020-06-22T14:53:36Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Re-Opened the closed thread that was creating so much angst. I still see this thread and the SRIOTD threads as locked. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/15 "2020-06-22T17:43:51Z")
Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia in the Thread Games (among others over there) section is closed too. Oddly, it looks like it closed, was reopened recently, then closed again. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/16 "2020-06-22T17:53:49Z")
TubaDiva keeps trying to fix that, then she posts in the thread to test and it locks again. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/17 "2020-06-23T00:02:09Z")
I have a terrible feeling that the `auto_close_topics_post_count` setting (or whatever it might be called) may just be a way for admins to set a lower bound on the number of posts per thread, but that 10,000 might be a maximum hardcoded into the Discourse software. Any further word on this? Not a showstopper, but yet another annoying problem. As I said earlier, we don’t have many threads that exceed this limit, but the ones that do are obviously popular threads that have existed for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/18 "2020-06-23T00:39:06Z")
Yeah, there are a half-dozen Thread Games posts over 10K that were active on the old thread. Any chance they can remove that cap? ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/19 "2020-06-23T01:12:33Z")
Makes sense to me. You obviously want to automatically close all the most popular threads, right? Why didn’t we think of this before? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072/20 "2020-06-26T23:19:06Z")
So you can open a new thread with the same (or similar) topic. Don’t you know “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ten-thousand-posts-might-be-a-problem/911072.md?page=2)