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		<title>1000-char limit on comments?</title>
		<dateCreated>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:26:28 GMT</dateCreated>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
		<ownerEmail>dave.winer@gmail.com</ownerEmail>
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		<outline created="Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:26:28 GMT" ctSaves="4" flPreview="false" id="2011.08.23.1238" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="1238" text="1000-char limit on comments?" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/08/23/1000charLimitOnComments.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:31:46 GMT">
			<outline created="Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:24:03 GMT" pgfnum="8930" text="I keep &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+disqus&quot;&gt;posting&lt;/a&gt; feature requests for &lt;a href=&quot;http://disqus.com/&quot;&gt;Disqus&lt;/a&gt; here, or for anyone who might be developing a competitive product."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:24:21 GMT" pgfnum="8931" text="Wouldn't it be nice if you could set a maximum length for comments? "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:24:37 GMT" pgfnum="8932" text="We seem to like a limit in Twitter (though I wish it were more than 140, personally)."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:24:54 GMT" pgfnum="8933" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/08/23/lifesaver.gif&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;125&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named lifesaver.gif&quot;&gt;Why not have a sysop-settable limit. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:02 GMT" pgfnum="8934" text="I'd start with a 1000 character limit. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:12 GMT" pgfnum="8935" text="If you need more than 1000 characters, you should be writing a blog post, not a comment."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:24 GMT" pgfnum="8936" text="What do you think?"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:40 GMT" pgfnum="8937" text="I think we need a more hackable comment system, btw, so if we get ideas for features we don't have to wait, possibly a very long time. How about an open source commenting system? "></outline>
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