fdreerf wrote:

bump
I personally don't see why a short comment needs line breaks, and someone could make a 500-line comment and make the page very long.

LankyBox01 wrote:

fdreerf wrote:

bump
I personally don't see why a short comment needs line breaks, and someone could make a 500-line comment and make the page very long.

“Report” exists.

fdreerf wrote:

LankyBox01 wrote:

fdreerf wrote:

bump
I personally don't see why a short comment needs line breaks, and someone could make a 500-line comment and make the page very long.

“Report” exists.

That just creates more work for the moderators.

gravtest wrote:

However, this could allow for spam:

this is……………………



huge amount of newlines




………….awesome!

A limit could be added:

$commentbody = implode("<br />", explode("\n", $commentbody, 15));

commentbody = commentbody.replace("\n", "<br />", 15)

Well, it's just a suggestion, so yeah

RedGuy7 wrote:

fdreerf wrote:

LankyBox01 wrote:

fdreerf wrote:

bump
I personally don't see why a short comment needs line breaks, and someone could make a 500-line comment and make the page very long.

“Report” exists.

That just creates more work for the moderators.

did you read the op?

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1. Limit the amount of line breaks entered at once, but this, however, doesn't prevent a spammer from doing this:
   

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   …and so on

2. Limit the total amount of line breaks in a comment, which solves the previous problem, but doesn't prevent this:
   

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   lots of new lines, but still below the total limit
   b

3. Only make new lines depending on the length of the content:
   

   qwertykid44 wrote:

   Make newlines count for several characters. Perhaps, say, 50 characters. This allows in a no-content message up to 10 newlines, but obviously there must be content for a newline to render. As such, only 8 newlines would likely ever render in a message. That's fairly manageable.
   
   (source)

4. Add scrollbars for long comments, or read more:
   

   ScolderCreations wrote:

   Yeah, if a comment has too many new lines, there should be a scroll bar to prevent a single comment from using all 500 new lines.
   
   (source)

   Sheep_maker wrote:

   To avoid users spamming with empty newlines a “read more” button that automatically appears for longer comments would be a good idea
   
   (#16)

5. Or multiple of them