I tried to post a comment and got an error. It said, "Error: Maximum number of characters exceeded. It cannot be more than 250 characters. The current number of characters is 401"
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Lost in China, I have ran into this as well! It's kind of annoying but in Fairness the Pit Boss, David Parish, had some discussion on this in Feb!
I guess if we have a long winded comment to make We will have to make it a Post?
Eat Well and Prosper! From Fargo ND, Dan
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I am not aware of this limit. I have posted very long comments as have MANY other members. Can you take a screen shot of the error when you see it? Let's see if we can figger this out.
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A "comment" like this is directly below a "post" is limited to 250 characters. But a "post" like the original one in this thread, has a MUCH larger limit. One can post a picture to a post, not a comment.
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Lost in China ...
When I get that message... I click out of it and copy & paste what I had typed into the new post box. It's pretty simple.
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- Fav cheap beers: Pabst, High Life, Hamm's & Stroh's
- Most favorite beer: The one in your fridge
- Wine: Red- big, bold, tannic & peppery- Petite Sirah, Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauv, Sangiovese, Syrah, etc
- Whiskey: Buffalo Trace, E.H. Taylor, Blanton's, Old Forester 1870, Elijah Craig Toasted, Basil Hayden's. Neat please.
- Scotch: Current favorite- The Arran (anything by them), Glenmorangie 12yr Lasanta, sherry cask finished. The Balvenie Double Wood, also like Oban 18yr, and The Glenlivet Nadurra (Oloroso sherry cask finished) among others. Neat please.
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Originally posted by Lost in China View PostI've posted plenty of comments before. They've been long.
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I truly wish this had been announced, or better yet the "comment" button said 250 characters max, and provided a countdown, and even better yet, simply refused to take any more characters after 250. This is like Twitter.
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I voted to do away with comments. I don't like hitting the go to new posts button and being taken to a comment on a year old post, and then trying to find where I really left off. But I guess I am in the minority! So I will use my right to be contrarian and only post replies and not comments. If this was the only irritation in my life I would be in heaven. There are many other things that are worse than this!Last edited by Yno; March 22, 2016, 07:10 AM.
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I don't know...this is one of the most idiosynratic forums I've ever used. Everything is custom to this one website and I can't use the knowledge I've gained from other forums to successfully post here. There are at least three different ways to post pictures. There are dozens of windswept, unused subforums. Comments get cut off with no warning beforehand, while you're spending all that time writing them. I wish this was more like every other forum on the internet that we all already know how to use.
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- Clare, Michigan area
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Follow me on Instagram, huskeesbarbecue
Smokers / Grills- Yoder loaded Wichita offset smoker
- PBC
- Grilla Silverbac pellet grill
- Slow 'N Sear Deluxe Kamado (SnSK)
- Masterbuilt Gravity 560
- Masterbuilt Digital Charcoal Cabinet
- Weber 22" Original Kettle Premium (copper)
- Weber 26" Original Kettle Premium (light blue)
- Weber Jumbo Joe Gold (18.5")
- Weber Smokey Joe Silver (14.5")
- Brinkmann cabinet charcoal smoker (repurposed)
Thermometers- SnS 500 4-probe wireless
- (3) Maverick XR-50 4-probe Wireless Thermometers
- A few straggler Maverick ET-732s
- Maverick ET-735 Bluetooth (in box)
- Smoke X4 by ThermoWorks
- Thermapen MkII, orange & purple
- ThermoPop, yellow, plus a few more in a drawer for gifts
- ThermoWorks ChefAlarm (wife's)
- Morpilot 6-probe wireless
- ThermoWorks Infrared IRK2
- ThermoWorks fridge & freezer therms as well
Accessories- Instant Pot 6qt
- Anova Bluetooth SV
- Kitchen Aide mixer & meat grinder attachment
- Kindling Cracker King (XL)
- a couple BBQ Dragons
- Weber full & half chimneys, Char-Broil Half Time chimney
- Weber grill topper
- Slow 'N Sear Original, XL, and SnS Charcoal Basket (for Jumbo Joe)
- Drip 'N Griddle Pans, 22' Easy Spin Grate, and Elevated Cooking grate, by SnSGrills
- Pittsburgh Digital Moisture Meter
Beverages- Favorite summer beers: Leinenkugels Summer & Grapefruit Shandy, Hamm's, Michelob Ultra Pure Gold
- Fav other beers: Zombie Dust (an IPA by 3 Floyd's Brewing), Austin Bros IPA, DAB, Sam Adams regular, Third Shift amber or Coors Batch 19, Stella Artois
- Fav cheap beers: Pabst, High Life, Hamm's & Stroh's
- Most favorite beer: The one in your fridge
- Wine: Red- big, bold, tannic & peppery- Petite Sirah, Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauv, Sangiovese, Syrah, etc
- Whiskey: Buffalo Trace, E.H. Taylor, Blanton's, Old Forester 1870, Elijah Craig Toasted, Basil Hayden's. Neat please.
- Scotch: Current favorite- The Arran (anything by them), Glenmorangie 12yr Lasanta, sherry cask finished. The Balvenie Double Wood, also like Oban 18yr, and The Glenlivet Nadurra (Oloroso sherry cask finished) among others. Neat please.
About me
Real name: Aaron
Location: Farwell, Michigan- near Clare. (dead center of lower peninsula)
Occupation:- Healthcare- Licensed & Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) at MyMichigan Health, a University of Michigan Health System.
Originally posted by Lost in China View PostI don't know...this is one of the most idiosynratic forums I've ever used. Everything is custom to this one website and I can't use the knowledge I've gained from other forums to successfully post here. There are at least three different ways to post pictures.
There are dozens of windswept, unused subforums.
Comments get cut off with no warning beforehand, while you're spending all that time writing them.
I wish this was more like every other forum on the internet that we all already know how to use.Last edited by Huskee; March 22, 2016, 03:04 AM.
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Lost in China,
It has been said that the best minds are idiosyncratic and unpredictable as they follow the course of discovery.
With all due respect. Why so angry? I'm I just reading you wrong maybe?
We have a great community here regardless of the forum function. How can we, the community, help you? Can we help you with posting of pics? How can we, as a group, keep the wind off the seldom used threads? How can we continue to build the community with the tools at hand?
How can we the users make this a better experience for you?
Last edited by Jon Solberg; March 22, 2016, 07:51 AM.
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We are always looking for way to improve. We think what we have done is logical and intuitive trying to improve upon the problems we have seen in the other forums (so that is why we are different). In addition we have a HELP document that tries to explain how things work (click HELP in the red bar near the top), and there are more posts with tips in the forum titled "Welcome". We have listened to member suggestions (no more ads!) and a 90% renewal rate. I'm sure we can do better, but we have very few complaints. If you have SPECIFIC recommendations, we'd love to hear them. How would YOU make things better?
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I personally have found both the public side and the Pit to be very easy to move around in. I've frequented AmazingRibs.com for 5 years. I still find new and very informative information from time to time even though it's been there for the entire 5 years.
Posting pictures on AR is much easier than on most other cooking website's I frequent. I don't even have to use a third party website to post pictures anymore. Straight from my camera roll onto my Pit comments.
The many and substantial changes over the five year stretch have been seamless and subtle but very beneficial. The adds never did bother me much. I knew they were necessary to provide me with all of this FREE content.
The real value of AmazingRibs.com to me... Is the daily exchange of idea's between us members and the moderators. I've NEVER not been able to get help on any problem I've encountered using the website.
I'm just saying its a comfortable home away from home and I enjoy exchanging information with other PitHead's.ðŸ‘Â
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Arrrgh! The 250 character limit strikes again!@#!@#!
AAAAGH, now there's a timer telling me to wait before I can post agaain @*@#*$&)@#(*&)@(#*%&)#(@$*&)@#$*
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It's just the way that the forums are presented...really tears my hair out. It could be done so much better. I've moderated lots of forums in my time and this one is just crying out for consolidation and removal of duplicate features.
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Lost in China ...
Hmmm... I don't notice all the duplication of which you speak. Simply because I only click on topics that I find interesting. I'm 65 years old and still have a full head of hair.😉
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On a more serious note, I am a definite newbie to this form stuff. I think I have about 5 posts in the year and a half that I have been a member. I have NEVER posted to any other site, so take what I say however you want. I have found the Pit forums very user friendly and intuitive. In addition, the help system and several instructive user/moderator/Pit Boss posts are very useful. The "Today's Posts" menu item makes it very easy to keep up with what's going on without regard to what forum/subforum somebody has posted to. The advanced search capability also works across forums and is very well done when compared the crappy search capabilities of many "for profit" commercial sites. So, I give the Pit and AR my vote of "well done".
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Lost in China There is a LIVELY debate on this topic going on offline between the moderators and me. Hang in there.
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Well, I wouldn't bitch and moan so much other than there's no warning or anything. If maybe there was a countdown timer like in Twitter or a note "250 character only replies, which is usually 3 lines <or whatever>" then that would be much better.
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I think I've figured it out. Node...today's posts...this forum appears to be a hacked-up Drupal. Drupal has a really crappy forum, or at least it did when I ran it. I installed a module called 'flatforum' that removed the comment/reply dichotomy.
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Then everything was just replies and it all went down the page smoothly. I think I also installed another module that made Drupal's forum look and behave more like the other standard forums on the net that everyone already knows how to use. Forget what it was called, though.
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