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Q&A Don't limit characters in a threaded comment to 1,000

Two staff had talked about it earlier. I didn't mean to suggest increasing the limit. If you type 500 characters as text, it's a certain size that people have grown used to. With code blocks, a ...

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#1: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2021-10-05T15:48:50Z (about 3 years ago)
Two staff had talked about it earlier. 

>I didn't mean to suggest increasing the limit. If you type 500 characters as text, it's a certain size that people have grown used to. With code blocks, a comment could plausibly be 2-3 times as tall. is that a problem or is that ok? The typical case of a few lines of code seems reasonable to me, but what if it's 20 very short lines? 50 lines of APL one or two characters per line? Should we have any limits and, if so, what? I'm not saying we should; I'm asking what folks want. ~ [Thread comment](https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/3523#comment-11430)

>If we don't restrict the body than it will encourage people to write comments rather than answering (It was said by another staff but I believe his texts wasn't like this even I forgot where he had messaged so I can't find it now)