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50 word limit problem
By TomW, Section Site News Posted on Tue Jul 29th, 2003 at 05:25:37 AM MST
Its simply that Scoop does NOT like quotes in the subject of replies

Just don't use " " in your reply subject and the problem goes away. This is addressed in the submission guidelines I believe.
Cheers.
TomW

50 word limit problem | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 editorial)

Re: 50 word limit problem (none / 0) (#1)
by JB on Tue Jul 29th, 2003 at 06:31:24 AM MST
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I didnt use those things and I still couldnt respond to a post yesterday. JB

Re: 50 word limit problem (none / 0) (#2)
by TomW on Tue Jul 29th, 2003 at 06:44:43 AM MST
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Well you got this response posted so I'm not sure whats up. I contacted DanF about it and we will see what we can figure out.

Actual, concise, error messages or exact steps you took to get the problem would help a lot.

Are you getting the error trying to reply to a story, post a story or reply to a comment to a story?

The only way I can reproduce it [so far] is using " " in the subject of a reply so I'm lost as to why you have the problem and no one else has seen it without the "quotes".

Cheers.

TomW

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."--Mark Twain
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Re: 50 word limit problem (none / 0) (#3)
by JB on Tue Jul 29th, 2003 at 07:34:02 AM MST
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Its working today Tom though not showing up on the main page. It was coming up on the post a comment section to Zubby on the Jerry blades. JB

Re: 50 word limit problem (none / 0) (#4)
by Wolfie1 on Tue Jul 29th, 2003 at 08:10:03 AM MST
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Don't know if you were getting this but if someone creates a thread with a title of 47-50 characters, when you reply, "Re: " is added to the front bumping up the length to 50+ characters.

Perhaps limiting the the title to 46 characters would help. Also, making the - you failed - much bigger will help.

Not saying this is the only problem but I was hit by that one yesterday on iFred's long title about his interupter/shaper motor.

Martin.

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Re: 50 word limit problem (none / 0) (#5)
by TomW on Tue Jul 29th, 2003 at 08:24:38 AM MST
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Martin;

Good point and quite possibly the problem. It never occured to me that the re: was doing it. Probably need to add that one to the user guide along with a note that a long title is not necessarily a good thing. Slowly but surely finding the bugs.

Thanks

Cheers.

TomW

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."--Mark Twain
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