# Post too short? Wha? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 10, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-too-short-wha/546240 "2010-07-10T19:33:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-too-short-wha/546240/1 "2010-07-10T19:33:04Z")
Trying to post (or quickpost) with the Standard Editor setting, which is what I normally do, keeps telling my my posts aren’t long enough and need to be more than 2 characters in length, which they definitely are. Switching to Basic Editor seems to let me post, at least sometimes (it failed the first time I went to post this, then worked the second time, ???). Guess a hamster needs replacing or flogging or something good like that. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-too-short-wha/546240/2 "2010-07-10T20:14:11Z")
It doesn’t count anything inside a quote box – might that be the problem? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-too-short-wha/546240/3 "2010-07-10T20:16:57Z")
Okay, it seems to affect basic editor too, but lets me post following a page refresh. I’ve switched back to standard, and it seems to work so long as I do a page refresh before hitting preview or reply. Haven’t tried quickpost this way. @Twickster - no, I had plenty besides quotes. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-too-short-wha/546240/4 "2010-07-10T20:38:47Z")
Now I’m not having problems. Weird. Hamster on lunch break I guess. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-too-short-wha/546240/5 "2010-07-10T20:55:32Z")
Spoke too soon. It’s still doing it, but letting me post after a refresh or if I’ve just entered the topic. If I actually take time and read a long topic, gives the error. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-too-short-wha/546240/6 "2010-07-17T15:38:27Z")
If you’re still having the problem (and restarting the web browser didn’t help) try clearing your cookies. Google how to do it for your web browser. If that doesn’t work, try a reinstall or creating a new profile. If you aren’t still having problems, I’d be curious what you did to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-too-short-wha/546240/7 "2010-09-12T21:16:57Z")
Sorry for the lateness of this post, but it appears the problem was related to the FoxReplace addon. A google search turned up an older post here talking about it, so I changed some settings and the issues hopefully will be gone. It’s worth noting that after my last post here I also started to notice the same issues on other vbulletin boards, so it was totally on my end.