Timeline for URL should not count towards a comment's character count [duplicate]
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| May 31, 2023 at 20:40 | comment | added | Jeff | @AlexanderGuyer Thanks for the detailed analysis of my 11 year old joke | |
| May 18, 2023 at 19:42 | comment | added | Alexander Guyer | @AaronBertrand OP isn't asking to prove that P = NP. They're asking for SE to treat link addresses in comments differently from regular text. This is not some impossible task. SE has implemented solutions to much more complicated problems. Moreover, many other platforms with character quotas (like Twitter) do treat link addresses differently w.r.t. the character count. Sure, comments are not the focus of the SE brand, but that doesn't make this feature request any less useful. | |
| May 18, 2023 at 19:36 | comment | added | Alexander Guyer | The point that a URL shortener's "exact intended niche" is to subvert content length restrictions is silly. That is not the only purpose of URL shorteners. Currently, if you Google "What is the point of URL shorteners", that doesn't even come up as a use case in many of the top responses. Yes, people use them for that purpose, but that's not their "intended niche". Moreover, there is no such thing as a truly "non-expiring" URL shortener. I'd like my comments to remain valid as long as the contained links are valid. But if bitly goes out of business, their links will all disappear. | |
| May 18, 2023 at 19:27 | comment | added | Alexander Guyer | @Jeff That's a moot point. You could very well restrict the length of the link's text while leaving the underlying link address unrestricted in length. e.g., like this. "this" is four characters, subject to length restrictions. The underlying address might be arbitrarily long. | |
| Feb 19, 2015 at 11:52 | history | closed |
Martijn Pieters ProgramFOX Scimonster inspectorG4dget ChrisFMod feature-request Users with the feature-request badge or a synonym can single-handedly close feature-request questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. |
Duplicate of Formatting and hyperlinks should not count towards the character limit on comments | |
| Feb 19, 2015 at 9:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 13:18 | comment | added | SeinopSys | @Jeff It's cut off after a few characters, though. | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 12:52 | answer | added | O0123 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 5:39 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 25, 2012 at 4:50 | comment | added | inspectorG4dget |
I just realized that it's important to mention that I'm talking about using URLs in markdown like so: [anchor text](URL), and not just pasting them in the comment
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| Nov 25, 2012 at 4:39 | vote | accept | inspectorG4dget | ||
| Nov 25, 2012 at 4:37 | comment | added | inspectorG4dget | @AaronBertrand: I get your point. I can't come up with an example off the top of my head. This post was a lingering thought from a while back, so I can't think of an example off the top of my head | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 4:16 | comment | added | Aaron Bertrand Staff | PS can you show some examples where you've had to do this "many times"? Is it on a site other than SO? I looked through your last 200 comments and didn't see a single shortened link. | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 4:09 | comment | added | Aaron Bertrand Staff | That seems unnecessarily complex - now the database column has to account for URLs and reputation? How many 600+ character comments are you really trying to post? They're not supposed to represent a masters' thesis. I think you are missing the point of comments... | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 4:08 | comment | added | inspectorG4dget | Fair point. But then could we rep-limit it - "You need at least X rep in order to post comments with URLs not counting toward the character count" ? | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 3:58 | comment | added | Jeff | maybe.then.everyone.will.start.writing.their.comments.like.this… | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 3:56 | answer | added | Aaron BertrandStaff | timeline score: 13 | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 3:52 | answer | added | Makoto | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 3:49 | comment | added | Aaron Bertrand Staff | I would say a 600-character comment is clutter whether it is technically in one comment or two. If you have that much to say, perhaps it shouldn't be a comment. Especially since comments are not the elements the site owners have any interest in promoting. | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 3:48 | comment | added | inspectorG4dget | @AaronBertrand: clutter | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 3:48 | comment | added | Aaron Bertrand Staff | It's not that hard, except you have to wait 15 seconds. | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 3:48 | comment | added | Aaron Bertrand Staff | What's wrong with adding two comments? | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 3:46 | history | asked | inspectorG4dget | CC BY-SA 3.0 |