Avoiding the 20 characters

When you post is less than 20 characters you can do this:


and avoid 20 characters. This works on other Discourse too.
I don’t know, is it a known bug (I’m quite new), but anyway I’m reporting it.

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You can also use

<!-- HTML comments with 20 characters ->

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I think that who wants to bypass that validation will bypass, in a way or another. Trying to validate each and every case that could bypass that limit will probably be a road to hell, unless there’s an easy way to know how many characters are in the rendered output.

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Yes. There is discussion about this. Mostly, if people want not to play by the rules you have to solve it socially rather than technologically.

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