# Don't count the spoiler wrapper towards the min post length requirement
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-count-the-spoiler-wrapper-towards-the-min-post-length-requirement/79110
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 26, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-count-the-spoiler-wrapper-towards-the-min-post-length-requirement/79110 "2018-01-26T19:31:02Z")
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### Author:  [@alexs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexs)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-count-the-spoiler-wrapper-towards-the-min-post-length-requirement/79110/1 "2018-01-26T19:31:02Z")
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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### Author:  [@alexs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexs)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-count-the-spoiler-wrapper-towards-the-min-post-length-requirement/79110/2 "2018-01-26T19:31:19Z")
e.g.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-count-the-spoiler-wrapper-towards-the-min-post-length-requirement/79110/3 "2018-01-26T19:33:16Z")
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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### Author:  [@alexs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexs)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-count-the-spoiler-wrapper-towards-the-min-post-length-requirement/79110/4 "2018-01-26T19:34:47Z")
There are & I can see his point 🙂 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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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-count-the-spoiler-wrapper-towards-the-min-post-length-requirement/79110/5 "2018-01-26T19:35:35Z")
> [@alexs](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-count-the-spoiler-wrapper-towards-the-min-post-length-requirement/79110/6 "2018-01-26T19:48:21Z")
Here is the Sam’s post
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-bypassing-the-10-character-rule/35257/2?u=vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-bypassing-the-10-character-rule/35257/2)
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-count-the-spoiler-wrapper-towards-the-min-post-length-requirement/79110/7 "2024-06-08T12:43:25Z")
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