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Limiting text in Intro Copy
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By enterfornone , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Fri Dec 08, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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This is probably a bit K5 specific, but I thought I'd post it here rather post yet another trivial meta.
Since the introduction of diaries there have been a lot of people using the Intro Copy box to post their entire story. Sure, it's only affecting diaries, but it's still annoying.
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| Two obvious solutions. The first would be to limit the amount of text allowed in the intro box. If the poster goes over the limit either not allow them to post, or inform them they are going to look like an idiot and probably get flamed and ask if they are really sure they want to go ahead.
A less drastic solution would be to put the following in the New Diary Entry screen.
DO NOT PUT THE WHOLE STORY IN "INTRO COPY" UNLESS IT IS LESS THAN 2 SHORT PARAGRAPHS LONG! "Intro Copy" is only for the first 2 paragraphs or so of text. Put the rest of the story in the next box down. Thanks! :-)
Hard to miss this on the Submit page. No doubt there's a block for this (would have to reboot to bring up my Scoop install, the docs mention submission_guidelines, I guess there is a diary version too).
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