Editing a BIG question.
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This question: Click on add and edit radgrid gives error[^] has HTML and C# code - but while the HTML is in
pretags the C# is unformatted. So I edit it, add the tags and try to save - and get an error messageQuote:
The content must be between 30 and 50000 characters.
While I agree that 50K is far too much to drop on us in QA (my text editor says it's 52,916 characters) I'm guessing that the HTML block converter is the reason it's so huge: "<" instead of "<" pushing it over the 50K limit. Perhaps the limit needs a bit more sophisticated checking to allow for the substitutions?
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This question: Click on add and edit radgrid gives error[^] has HTML and C# code - but while the HTML is in
pretags the C# is unformatted. So I edit it, add the tags and try to save - and get an error messageQuote:
The content must be between 30 and 50000 characters.
While I agree that 50K is far too much to drop on us in QA (my text editor says it's 52,916 characters) I'm guessing that the HTML block converter is the reason it's so huge: "<" instead of "<" pushing it over the 50K limit. Perhaps the limit needs a bit more sophisticated checking to allow for the substitutions?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
If we're at the point where we need to worry about < vs < then the question is already a catastrophe. I would either 1. Post a comment (not as an answer) and say "Would love to help, but you need to help us help you. Please edit the question down the the specific problem", or 2. close it. Everyone here works their bottoms off trying to help others, but questions that just suck the life out of someone just take the wind out of everyone's sails. Leaving them up also implicitly says questions like that are acceptable. The other reason to post a comment is that if a comment is posted and the OP doesn't reply, or doesn't make a change, then they aren't paying attention in the first place, or simply aren't interested in putting in effort to help us help them. We should help them help themselves, but also be ready to move on.
cheers Chris Maunder
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If we're at the point where we need to worry about < vs < then the question is already a catastrophe. I would either 1. Post a comment (not as an answer) and say "Would love to help, but you need to help us help you. Please edit the question down the the specific problem", or 2. close it. Everyone here works their bottoms off trying to help others, but questions that just suck the life out of someone just take the wind out of everyone's sails. Leaving them up also implicitly says questions like that are acceptable. The other reason to post a comment is that if a comment is posted and the OP doesn't reply, or doesn't make a change, then they aren't paying attention in the first place, or simply aren't interested in putting in effort to help us help them. We should help them help themselves, but also be ready to move on.
cheers Chris Maunder
One way to do it without the soul destroying wall of text might be to lower the limit? I mean, 50K of code is the equivelant of 10,000+ words (English average word length is 4.7 characters) which is half way to a novella! No bugger is going to read it all anyway :laugh: What if the original max length was a more reasonable 4K? If the "too long" message was changed to suggest relevant code fragments only that could kill two birds with one stone? That's still a 4 page short story or a couple of hundred lines of code? What does the DB say is the average length of a QA question?
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt -
One way to do it without the soul destroying wall of text might be to lower the limit? I mean, 50K of code is the equivelant of 10,000+ words (English average word length is 4.7 characters) which is half way to a novella! No bugger is going to read it all anyway :laugh: What if the original max length was a more reasonable 4K? If the "too long" message was changed to suggest relevant code fragments only that could kill two birds with one stone? That's still a 4 page short story or a couple of hundred lines of code? What does the DB say is the average length of a QA question?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
You're totally right, but I think there was something, somewhere, at sometime, that made me bang my head against and wall, sigh, and then just crank the limit up to 11. or 50,000, as it were. Yeah - 4K is enough for anyone. To paraphrase someone whose name escapes me ;)
cheers Chris Maunder
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One way to do it without the soul destroying wall of text might be to lower the limit? I mean, 50K of code is the equivelant of 10,000+ words (English average word length is 4.7 characters) which is half way to a novella! No bugger is going to read it all anyway :laugh: What if the original max length was a more reasonable 4K? If the "too long" message was changed to suggest relevant code fragments only that could kill two birds with one stone? That's still a 4 page short story or a couple of hundred lines of code? What does the DB say is the average length of a QA question?
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OriginalGriff wrote:
If the "too long" message was changed to suggest relevant code fragments only that could kill two birds with one stone?
That presupposes that the user will read and understand the message, and not just post a link to download their 100KLoC project from a dodgy file hosting site instead. :)
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OriginalGriff wrote:
If the "too long" message was changed to suggest relevant code fragments only that could kill two birds with one stone?
That presupposes that the user will read and understand the message, and not just post a link to download their 100KLoC project from a dodgy file hosting site instead. :)
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Richard Deeming wrote:
That presupposes that the user will can read and understand the message, and not just post a link to download their 100KLoC project from a dodgy file hosting site instead.
FTFY ... :sigh:
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