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  • #16
    It's not a bug, it's a feature to get you more +1s.
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    • #17
      Originally posted by DarkCloud

      I suppose the real fear here then is that someone might go on a 'quothing' rampage and waste server space by quoting large posts 20K + characters, and then responding to them with another 10K character writing.
      Doing that 10 times is the equivalent of attaching one picture to a thread.
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      • #18
        Originally posted by Smiley
        It's not a bug, it's a feature to get you more +1s.
        damn, Smiley beat me to it.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
          We're not increasing the limit size because of spam that hasn't happend and may or may not happen?
          See http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...04#post3113004

          Still disagree with me even after reading the follow-up linked to above? Well, we'll agree to disagree for now then.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by DarkCloud
            the limit is there so that the server doesn't get overload-flooded
            ...isn't it getting overloaded anyway...

            I suppose the real fear here then is that someone might go on a 'quothing' rampage and waste server space by quoting large posts 20K + characters, and then responding to them with another 10K character writing.
            There are only 2 sizes of posts I make, and that's one of them. :/

            Is this what you're trying to avoid?

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            • #21
              Spam posts that are greater than 20k words? Don't make me laugh, that's a thesis in spam...
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              • #22
                Talking of spam theses I should get back to mine...I haven't worked on it for a couple of weeks now.
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                • #23
                  Is this what you're trying to avoid?
                  http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame2.html
                  I would think the "Furious quother" would be more feared
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                  • #24
                    If there hasn't been a flame warrior made about it, then it's not a widespread problem.

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