# Implementation wrong for min first post length?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/implementation-wrong-for-min-first-post-length/33760
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 25, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/implementation-wrong-for-min-first-post-length/33760 "2015-09-25T20:27:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@rlauriston](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rlauriston)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/implementation-wrong-for-min-first-post-length/33760/1 "2015-09-25T20:27:30Z")
I expected that min first post length would affect only the first post in a topic and min post length would affect all the replies.
Instead, min first post length affects the first post _and any replies to that post_.
This doesn’t make sense to me. The point of a longer minimum for the opening post is that you want to make sure the topic is stated clearly enough. I don’t think there’s any reason that replies should have a different minimum depending on whether they’re replying to the original post or to a reply.
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### Author:  [@rlauriston](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rlauriston)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/implementation-wrong-for-min-first-post-length/33760/2 "2015-09-25T20:30:29Z")
And by the way, kudos for making your software so clean that it took me ten days to find a bug. Impressive for such a newish platform.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/implementation-wrong-for-min-first-post-length/33760/3 "2015-09-25T20:53:58Z")
Aha that does sound like a bug. Can you have a peek @eviltrout on Monday?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/implementation-wrong-for-min-first-post-length/33760/4 "2015-09-28T16:06:52Z")
I can’t seem to reproduce this.
In my tests, `min_first_post_length` only applies to the first post in the topic. All replies to that post seem to use `min_post_length`.
One exception is private messages, where `min_private_message_post_length` is used.
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### Author:  [@rlauriston](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rlauriston)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/implementation-wrong-for-min-first-post-length/33760/5 "2015-09-28T16:28:21Z")
I can’t reproduce it now either. Sorry for the false alarm.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/implementation-wrong-for-min-first-post-length/33760/6 "2015-09-28T16:43:53Z")