: The character limit

Posts and private messages are restricted to a maximum of 60,000 characters of text, which is equivalent to many full pages of text in a word processing program.

It is very rare that someone will actually write a post containing 60,000 characters of text. The 60,000 limit includes all content of the post, which means HTML will be counted also. The usual cause of a user reaching the 60,000 character limit in a post is because the text they are trying to post has very poorly written, repeating, or unnecessary HTML coding within it.

When editing or creating a post, a user can highlight all of the text and then click the Remove Text Formatting icon in the WYSIWYG toolbar to remove all of the HTML formatting and severely reduce the number of characters used.