# Soft hyphen counted in min post length

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/soft-hyphen-counted-in-min-post-length/27979
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 26, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/soft-hyphen-counted-in-min-post-length/27979 "2015-04-26T18:03:14Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/soft-hyphen-counted-in-min-post-length/27979/2 "2015-04-26T18:18:34Z")

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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.

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