When you post is less than 20 characters you can do this: [image] 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.

You can also use <!-- HTML comments with 20 characters ->

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.

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.

[image] Bypassing character minimum on posts via HTML ux Yes, this is well known, there are many topics on this. Have a search. It’s WONTFIX because there are as many methods to bypass as there are grains of sand on a beach. We only care about the common and easy ones. …

Avoiding the 20 characters

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Falco (Falco) April 22, 2021, 4:51pm 5

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Avoiding the 20 characters

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