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#1 2010-12-14 07:44:38
- bobafett01
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2010-02-17
- Posts: 100+
400 Words!
once i was commenting on a project and "WOOSH" it said i had 500 LETTERS OR MORE!! 
i definitely saw other people having wayyyy longer comments than i did. one time i even saw a person that wrote like 100,000 words!
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#2 2010-12-14 09:00:43
Re: 400 Words!
The code that blocks it is probably JavaScript, and not the inner code itself. Since it's the only thing, you could probably ( I'm not sure ) disable JavaScript, type in a 500+ word comment, then enable it and post the comment. Though I'm not sure how possible that would be, but oh well. Also, if that's 100,000 words... I really doubt it, the most words on a forum post I've ever seen was about 1,500 the most I've done was about 1,000 as well, if it's 100,000 characters, that's a different story, though I'm just stating my opinion. 
But that's quite interesting you found one more than 500 letters, could you post a link to one? Cause some of the comments may have been posted before the blocker was implemented. Who knows.
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#3 2010-12-14 09:42:56
- Paddle2See
- Scratch Team
- Registered: 2007-10-27
- Posts: 1000+
Re: 400 Words!
I'm pretty sure the website limits everybody to a 500 letter comment. I'd be curious if you could give me a link to a comment that is longer
The Project Notes, on the other hand, can be much longer. I don't know what the limit on those are but I've seen them go on for pages.
Moving this to All About Scratch...
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#4 2010-12-14 14:48:54
- Wolfie1996
- Retired Community Moderator
- Registered: 2009-07-08
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Re: 400 Words!
If it was an old comment that you were seeing, it might be that there were no comment limits back then... I think there was a time where comments over 500 characters were allowed (it was before my time on Scratch, though... 
I've seen a few old comments with many more than 500 characters, so I'm guessing it's possible).
It annoys me when it deletes my comment for being too long (when it isn't)... All I can suggest is maybe posting half the comment or so, then finishing it in a reply?
"...Jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade, when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructing implement..." - Bill Bryson, Mother Tongue
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#5 2010-12-14 17:00:25
Re: 400 Words!
I've been given a link, but since there aren't comment id numbers, here's the link that I've been given: http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/8205 ( Link to comment with link to gallery: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Magnie/1428357?comment=6082959 ) If you scroll down, you won't miss a 4500+ word advertisement for Wikipedia. ( I'm sure Paddle or someone will take care of it after we are done discussing about it 
) It was posted about 3 years ago.
Edit: Not just for Wikipedia actually, and there are two
Last edited by Magnie (2010-12-14 18:31:59)
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#6 2010-12-14 17:06:29
Re: 400 Words!
Magnie wrote:
I've been given a link, but since there aren't comment id numbers, here's the link that I've been given: http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/8205 ( Link to comment with link to gallery: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Magnie/1428357?comment=6082959 ) If you scroll down, you won't miss a 4500+ word advertisement for Wikipedia. ( I'm sure Paddle or someone will take care of it after we are done discussing about it
Woah!
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#7 2010-12-14 19:22:52
Re: 400 Words!
Magnie wrote:
I've been given a link, but since there aren't comment id numbers, here's the link that I've been given: http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/8205 ( Link to comment with link to gallery: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Magnie/1428357?comment=6082959 ) If you scroll down, you won't miss a 4500+ word advertisement for Wikipedia. ( I'm sure Paddle or someone will take care of it after we are done discussing about it
Edit: Not just for Wikipedia actually, and there are two
I think the character limit was only added around 2008 or so, so if that comment's 3 years old then that might explain it.
I'm taking a break from Scratch until 2.0 comes out. Any messages sent between then and now probably won't be read - sorry.
(Oct. 20, 2011)
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#8 2010-12-14 20:09:13
Re: 400 Words!
Magnie wrote:
I've been given a link, but since there aren't comment id numbers, here's the link that I've been given: http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/8205 ( Link to comment with link to gallery: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Magnie/1428357?comment=6082959 ) If you scroll down, you won't miss a 4500+ word advertisement for Wikipedia. ( I'm sure Paddle or someone will take care of it after we are done discussing about it
Edit: Not just for Wikipedia actually, and there are two
It looks like the copied the entire text of Wikipedia's article on Teletubbies and then pasted it into a comment. 
Anyway, that was probably before the comment limit was added.
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#9 2010-12-14 22:33:35
- silverninja
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- Registered: 2010-05-01
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Re: 400 Words!
Yeah man
The comment was from 3 years ago
Things change, so now we have so many peeps we can only afford 500 words per comment to keep the server running smoothly (most of the time)
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#11 2010-12-15 15:07:00
Re: 400 Words!
silverninja wrote:
Yeah man
The comment was from 3 years ago
Things change, so now we have so many peeps we can only afford 500 words per comment to keep the server running smoothly (most of the time)
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