Here is how the minimum characters works: [image] But you can easily override and bypass it by doing this: [image] Is this a bug, or it’s the expected behaviour? I think that the minimum characters should affect to the preview characters

[image] Soft hyphen counted in min post length bug 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 …

Small Bug with Min Characters

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Falco (Falco) January 6, 2018, 7:10pm 2

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

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Small Bug with Min Characters

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