So, thanks to cecil, I have been reminded I've been lax in putting up more stuff in the "GOG forums for Beginners" thread.

I need some information about Stars for it though.
At which points in your Rep count do you get Stars?

If I remember, you get your first Star at 100, then you get the next at 200?
Or am I so far off the point, I might as well be looking for it with the Hubble? ;)

Basically, what does your Rep need to be to get 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Stars?

And while I have you reading, does anyone know how the maximum length of a post?

Please read <span class="bold">this post</span>, and see if you can add things that you think a noob might want to know, that I haven't added to my "To Do" list, so that I can make the thread more properly befit it's title!

If I remember, you get your first Star at 100....

I don't think that's right:-)

I don't know the maximum length of a post, it seems to be at least over 10,000 characters easily however.

i believe you get your first star with 20 or 25 not 100

damn it !
ninja'd by a smug cat
...again !

at least now i know how close i am to that third star

Okay Stars to Rep is as follows:

1 Star = no one cares
2 Stars = no one cares
3 Stars = no one cares
4 Stars = no one cares
5 Stars = seriously, no one cares, it's a stupid meaningless number. :D

Any questions?

yes
why do you have 4 then ?

Because I tell really horrible tasteless jokes which I think proves my point! :P There are people in here who enliven our lives, educate us, and make the world a better place through their posts, and they don't have shit for stars. I rest my case. :D

Please hand in your stars at Wallmart checkout,Thankyou:-)

Yay, so soon!
An answer is forthcoming. I bow to your acumen, oh knowledgeable Grargar! :P

your an abberation in other words

...nothing new there

No I'm a heterosexual but I'm flattered. :D

Fixed it for you. :P

That's actually really funny. XD Well played Sir.

I'm going to say under 8k. I remember having a long discussion with someone and giving a long explanation of something, and a dozen times i tried to submit changes to my post where it just kept stalling (and it wasn't due to bbcode issues), eventually i just gave up the argument as i didn't want to fight the system or keep the argument up.

Regardless, the max length isn't going to be too huge, but it's certainly long enough as it is, unless you have excessive diarrhea of the mouth...

note: I'll probably duplicate this message in here multiple times and shorten it until i find the answer and note it here in a few minutes...

edit: Results are in!

To keep things simple i didn't keep referencing new quotes to keep the system from hemorrhaging.

Final Verdict: About 9k (9972 bytes in last test).
10k (or shy of) refused to work.


As a note, this may be a limitation of the POST method (or AJax), rather than the message length, meaning for different browsers you might actually get a different result. I'm using Firefox v25.