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Whiteknight
06-08-2004, 8:52 PM
Alrighty, this has happened a few times now, I dismissed it the first time as a short time bug, but now it's happened more.

Whenever I go to edit my signature, it always gives the message:

"The following errors occurred when this message was submitted:
Your signature can not be longer than 500 characters."
I was baffled about that, as my signature had been okay many times before when I went to edit it. So I took my signature into word and had the it count the characters, and it was under 500 characters. Then I counted the characters by hand, and it was around 425ish. I managed to just delete two spaces and it worked, and I dismissed it as a temporary bug.

Now it keeps happening. The thing is, every time I edit my signature, I have to always delete a few characters.

Say I go edit my signature right now. I just click the "edit signature" link, then I press save signature. It will come up with the error message. So if I delete a few characters, then it will save the message. Now, right away, I click the edit signature link again, and then go directly to "save signature" it will display the error message.

So, basically, no matter what, whenever I go to edit my signature, it wants me to delete a few letters, even though it is well under 500 characters. Is there any way to fix this?

hammocksleeper
06-08-2004, 9:23 PM
The 500 char count includes the BBcode, such as [url] and [img] tags. Not just the stuff you see. ;)

Schwitzer
06-08-2004, 9:34 PM
Whiteknight:

Characters (no spaces): 453
Characters (with spaces): 537

AJ
06-08-2004, 9:38 PM
Guh. We went over this last night too.

Whiteknight
06-08-2004, 9:43 PM
What? How so?

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It says 495 with spaces. But, bah, I'll delete a quote then, see if that fixed it.

AJ, the reason I posted it again was because it continually requires me to delete some characters for some reason, even after it already accepts it.

Oh well, fixed it-ish.

AJ
06-08-2004, 9:48 PM
Perhaps it's an indication of time to straighten up your signature then? ;)