help with editing posts?

17 years ago

Ok, so seems it's not just me experiencing this:

Another user said this in another post: "I tried to correct a type - but the forum won't let me - tells my "title" is too long. I didn't have a title. Duh."

and this is the kind of message I am getting when I try to edit:

The title that you have entered is too long (747 characters). Please shorten it to 100 characters long.

So obviously no one is going to sit here and write a 747 character long title... cheez...

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Ken Strong 17 years ago

Never heard of that... at what point does it give you this error message about the title? When you first click on the "Edit" button, or when you're finished and you click on "Save," or ...?
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acrasial

17 years ago

when you click to save it... and I'm not the only one having this issue.. so...

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netalab

17 years ago

It weird though.
Is it the first time you experience the problem? is it only when you are editing your post?

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John Romaine

17 years ago

Yeah I got it too..

"The title that you have entered is too long (1134 characters). Please shorten it to 100 characters long."

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acrasial

17 years ago

Yup, so some kind of bug.... it's a really annoying one at that too!

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Steven Wagenheim

17 years ago

Figured out the problem.

You can edit a post as long as it doesn't have a link in it.

If you have a link, it's the link that is somehow getting included into the
forum title length being calculated.

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Kay King

17 years ago

The "link" has nothing to do with problems I had last night as there were no links involved.

It's been reported, it will be fixed by those who have access to forum admin panel and source code. Meanwhile, we need to type carefully to avoid edits or type your post in notepad and make edits before adding it here.

kay

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Steven Wagenheim

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

The "link" has nothing to do with problems I had last night as there were no links involved.

It's been reported, it will be fixed by those who have access to forum admin panel and source code. Meanwhile, we need to type carefully to avoid edits or type your post in notepad and make edits before adding it here.

kay

You're right Kay. I jumped to conclusions based on minimum testing (shame
on a former QA tester)

Actually, the thread title is taking the whole post length into account for
determining the length of the title.

I created a thread, edited the content (kept it short) and wouldn't you
know it...the thread title changed to the actual content of the thread
without me changing the title myself.

Weirdest bug I've ever seen, but that's what's happening.

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R Hagel

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Weirdest bug I've ever seen...

The weirdest bug I've ever seen was black, hard shelled and about as big as a mouse.

Well, maybe that wasn't the weirdest. But it was the scariest.

Cheers,
Becky

(What are you all looking at -- this is the O/T forum, yes? And the problem at hand is in the process of being solved... right?

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Killer Joe

17 years ago

Originally Posted by R Hagel

The weirdest bug I've ever seen was black, hard shelled and about as big as a mouse.

Well, maybe that wasn't the weirdest. But it was the scariest.

Cheers,
Becky

The weirdest bug I've ever seen was black, hard shelled and had a big block Chevy with a blower on it.

It was faaaaast, too.

KJ

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Matt Bard

17 years ago

I have the same problem. I came here to start a thread on it when I saw this one.

When I try to edit anything after I have already posted then I get the error screen
"The title of your post is too long. It has over 1000..."

It pops up when you try to save the edit.

Matt

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medway

17 years ago

Having the same issue, really annoying.

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Steven Fullman

17 years ago

Weird bug. It's not helping me right now, but I'm sure it'll get fixed soon enough.

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HeySal

17 years ago

Got to be one of Allen's pranks - now we can all see how really bad we look in rough drafts. I feel like a buck an article writer when I see a few of the posts I couldn't edit.
One was so bad I deleted it and reposted. It's hard to see what you wrote sometimes until you read it as posted. LOL.

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Kay King 17 years ago

Becky -

Wish you had seen the bug I ran into last night. I kid you not it was 4 inches long and about 1/2 inch wide - and dark red. It appeared to have come in through a gap under the screen door from the back yard.

I can't kill anything (spiders and flies indoors are the exception) so I conducted a bug removal - which involves picking the worm/bug up (pretty fast little sucker) with a paper towel while muttering "ick, ewww" a lot - and walked him through the front yard, across the street and dumped him in the woods. Of course, the entire time I'm wondering if this is some new strain of flesh eating, people-attacking insect. I'm such a wuss.

But I can stay off topic with the best of them

I looked up the bug, by the way. It's a red millipede Stock Footage of Red millipede u11937950 - Search Stock Videos, Movies, Motion, Digital Film Video Clips - u11937950.gif
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