What does 12 chars mean?

Enjoi

Enjoi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

i see it sometimes when people bump or bid.

ex: "b/o 12 chars"

whaa?

Thx in advance, Enjoi

Coloneh

Coloneh

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

D/W

try posting something with less than 12 characters

Lasareth

Lasareth

Aquarius

Join Date: Jun 2005

Somewhere between Boardwalk and Park Place

It's part of our anti-spam measure. The other part being deleting posts and banning people who intentionally bypass the 12 char min with nothing useful to say

lennymon

lennymon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Seattle

Odin's Hammer [OH] - Servant's of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

for a more clear answer, there is a 12 character -minimum- post length. The typing of nonsense has been beaten out by "12 chars" or "12 characters" as the convention for filler in order to meet that requirement.

Enjoi

Enjoi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

oooh. haha thx.

SotiCoto

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

[There is also a Max character limit.... but only folks like me prone to writing huge posts on occasion tend to hit that.]

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by SotiCoto
[There is also a Max character limit.... but only folks like me prone to writing huge posts on occasion tend to hit that.]
Yeah, the only time I've ever had problems reaching that is when I post on fiction run-ons on certain boards. Never had much trouble with it here though.