I’m not sure whether this should be considered a bug but it’s inconsistent so.. At the moment, users can add [spoiler][/spoiler] (with no hidden text) to their posts in order to bypass the min post length that’s been set for a site - & our users are doing this. Characters from quotes of other post…

Here is the Sam’s post https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-bypassing-the-10-character-rule/35257/2?u=vinothkannans

There are & I can see his point :slight_smile: it would be helpful to get rid of this one but I guess what you’re saying is that it’s down to the site’s moderators to intervene if it’s being abused, which is fair enough.

[image] alexs: I guess what you’re saying is that it’s down to the site’s moderators to intervene if it’s being abused You’ll need to wait for Sam or another engineer to confirm, but yes, I believe that’s what our current position is on this.

Don't count the spoiler wrapper towards the min post length requirement

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) January 26, 2018, 7:33pm 3

There are lots of creative ways to exploit the min post length setting, I believe @sam has said we’re not going to be able to stop them all.

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Don't count the spoiler wrapper towards the min post length requirement

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