Have you ever seen a really short post?

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<p>I thought I saw a reply in another thread the other day that was only four (visible) characters long. How does that happen, given the forum software’s ten-character minimum rule?</p>

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<p>F our</p>

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<p>Works if you use spaces. but you can’t have the space count if they are at the beginning. At least based on my experiment.</p>

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<p>You can also add a period after a word with a lot of spaces in between.</p>

<p>(I never thought this would be a problem on the Parents Forum.)</p>

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<p>:eek:[No](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No][size=+3]No[/size][/url]:rolleyes:”>No - Wikipedia):rolleyes:</a></p>

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<p>. wow .</p>

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<p>parent2noles, how can I do those emoticons? I just know ;); :slight_smile: and :(</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>a .</p>

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<p>Thank you! :D:cool:</p>

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<p>i .</p>

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<p>The shortest post I’ve seen was about 18" tall.</p>

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<p>. .</p>

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<p>Not quite 18", though, dig.</p>

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<p>1 </p>

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<p>^^^ Beat that ^^^^</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>thks .</p>

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<p>.</p>

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<p>. </p>

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<p>Hey, dig. You edited #13. Now my #14 is a non-sequitur. Oh, the ignominy.</p>