# Small Bug with Min Characters

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/small-bug-with-min-characters/77388
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 6, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/small-bug-with-min-characters/77388 "2018-01-06T18:17:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![barreeeiroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/barreeeiroo/32/165264_2.png) [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/small-bug-with-min-characters/77388/1 "2018-01-06T18:17:18Z")

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Here is how the minimum characters works:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/b/2bc5c26871138ee8b3c4292917e792833ff3e25d.png)

But you can easily override and bypass it by doing this:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/d/fd5f3eebd7dfb75db71e39b0ce054e0bb1c869c5.png)

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Is this a bug, or it’s the expected behaviour? I think that the minimum characters should affect to the preview characters

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/small-bug-with-min-characters/77388/2 "2018-01-06T19:10:10Z")

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> [@Soft hyphen counted in min post length](https://meta.discourse.org/t/soft-hyphen-counted-in-min-post-length/27979/2):
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> Yes this is by design, there are many “technical” ways of bypassing minimum post length. The goal is to discourage casual bypass, not literally blocking every single HTML or Unicode method of posting things that cannot be seen.

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-bypassing-the-10-character-rule/35257/2?u=falco](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-bypassing-the-10-character-rule/35257/2)

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/small-bug-with-min-characters/77388/3 "2018-01-06T19:10:14Z")

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