6

When I try to cheat the add comment validator by typing something like

'Yes.               _'

It will not validate. Apparently the real algorithm does not count white space but the JS validator does. Seems like they should be the same. (What is the point of giving people false hope?)

Improve this question
7
  • 16
    "When I try to cheat the add comment validator"...maybe don't do that?
    – Michael Mrozek
    Feb 12, 2011 at 0:48
  • Thats not fair. How do you guys get to do it but not me?!
    – nate c
    Feb 12, 2011 at 1:05
  • @natec Learn markdown ;)
    – Yi Jiang
    Feb 12, 2011 at 1:17
  • @nate View the source code of this page to see what they're doing.
    – Pollyanna
    Feb 12, 2011 at 1:25
  • 2
    When the student is ready, the master will appear.
    – Pollyanna
    Feb 12, 2011 at 2:11
  • 1
    @Ryan: If the JS validator doesn't reflect the server-side one, I'd say that's a bug, not a support issue.
    – Gelatin
    Feb 12, 2011 at 21:18
  • @pekka who's laughing now, eh? eh? =8-)
    – Jeff Atwood
    Feb 13, 2011 at 3:46

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
5

We don't like it when people intentionally subvert the comment character limit.

Please leave substantive, useful comments of at least 15 characters, or don't comment at all.

Improve this answer
4
  • 3
    Did you just kill the empty-link trick too?
    – mmyers
    Feb 13, 2011 at 3:53
  • 3
    Won't this just lead to "yes -----------" style responses? Was there real harm being done by subverting the limit?
    – Pekka
    Feb 13, 2011 at 17:13
  • 4
    People will always subvert the limit, whether you like it or not. Now they will subvert it in an uglier way, such as the one @Pekka demonstrated =)
    – Andreas Bonini
    Feb 13, 2011 at 17:51
  • (a.k.a., there are some dirty unicode tricks that still need to be closed off…)
    – Donal Fellows
    Feb 13, 2011 at 18:40

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .