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

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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 posts aren’t counted towards the post’s length so this seems inconsistent.

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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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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.

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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.

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Here is the Sam’s post

https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-bypassing-the-10-character-rule/35257/2?u=vinothkannans

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