The upgrade to SMF 1.0.2 has brought along with it the ability to limit the amount of text in posts on individual boards. So, we've decided to take advantage of that feature here on the Caption This! board, and
FROM NOW ON CAPTION POSTS ARE LIMITED TO 275 CHARACTERS.
We didn't reach that amount arbitrarily. In fact, we measured the length of all 680 captions that were currently on the board and discovered that the average length of a caption (including any of the forum's BBC tags, smiley codes, and/or special invisible characters like new line (hitting your keyboard's return key)) was 137 characters. So, in an effort not to stifle creativity, we've doubled that amount, added 1, and decided on a 275 character limit. Far from wanting to stifle creativity, we actually want to inspire it - and hopefully setting a character limit for this board will do just that.
When posting comments about other cousins' captions, if a cousin thinks he/she will need more than 275 characters, he/she will need to quote the caption(s) they're commenting on to avoid the character limit. However,
PLEASE DON'T TRY POSTING COMMENTS AND YOUR OWN CAPTIONS IN THE SAME POST TO BYPASS THE 275 CHARACTER LIMIT. Please post them separately.
POSTS CONTAINING BOTH CAPTIONS AND COMMENTS WILL MORE THAN LIKELY BE REMOVED FROM THE BOARD IF THE CAPTION GOES OVER 275 CHARACTERS. AND SIMILARLY, CAPTIONS THAT ARE QUOTED SIMPLY SO THAT A NEW CAPTION MADE AS A REPLY TO THEM CAN GO OVER THE 275 LIMIT WILL MORE THAN LIKELY BE REMOVED FROM THE BOARD.