# Emoticons should not count toward the post character minimum

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticons-should-not-count-toward-the-post-character-minimum/20503>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Septembre 26, 2014, 1:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticons-should-not-count-toward-the-post-character-minimum/20503 "2014-09-26T13:02:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Post date:** [Septembre 26, 2014, 4:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticons-should-not-count-toward-the-post-character-minimum/20503/6 "2014-09-26T16:55:03Z")

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Well, I’m no fan of minimum character requirements anyway. Someone always finds a way around them anyway, so why enforce them in the first place? But that’s another topic…

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