Limit the Location Field

[klesh]

Is it possible to set a reasonable character limit to the Location field of our profiles? 

 

I realize it can be used for fun and to give a little personal flair to your account, but there are a few posters who shall remain nameless that are, in my opinion, abusing the seemingly infinite character capacity of the current location field.  This results in a Location listing (for a particular user) that is 17 rows long, more often than not longer than the actual content of their posts.  Another user's location field is 26(!) rows long.  Its annoying.

 

Rather than setting the poster to ignore (I'm certainly open to reading their quality posts), and not being able to turn off viewing of that portion of an account (the way you can turn off signatures) is it possible to limit the characters in that field?

 

Thanks!

Edited July 4, 2017 by klesh

[NSEP]

Wait the location field has no limits? Quite odd in my opinion. I do agree with you yes.

[Red Iron Crown]

There aren't character limits to be adjusted, either for location or for posts in general, unfortunately. 

[klesh]

Okay.  I guess I'll have to set them to ignore.  That's disappointing. 

[klesh]

Just to illustrate how obnoxious a one-line reply with a 26-line location field looks on the Kerbal Space Program Forums:

 

 

Well, you're not lying, Red.  I just checked another Invision Power Services, Inc board and indeed there is no limit there either:

 

Edited July 5, 2017 by klesh
tested another Invision Power Services board.

[Red Iron Crown]

2 hours ago, klesh said:

Well, you're not lying, Red.

Turns out I was mistaken, though. I've turned on a length limit for the location field, give it a try now.

[klesh]

10 hours ago, Red Iron Crown said:

Turns out I was mistaken, though. I've turned on a length limit for the location field, give it a try now.

 

Oh wow, hey, thats service!  I just gave it a go and the longest it can get now is 7 lines which looks good.  Its long enough for a campy entry for flair, but isn't offputtingly long by any stretch of the imagination.  Thanks!

I might have to pm you for the method if the fellas over at the DayZ forums don't know how to limit the field.   Thanks again. 

Edited July 5, 2017 by klesh

[John FX]

I came here to start a thread about this so I will join this one.

If there is a limit, it only affects new locations.

Old, long locations are still displayed.

 

[Red Iron Crown]

19 hours ago, John FX said:

I came here to start a thread about this so I will join this one.

If there is a limit, it only affects new locations.

Old, long locations are still displayed.

 

Software limitation, I'm afraid. Changes to these sorts of things only get applied when the content is updated, same goes for the profanity filter and the acronym hints. 

[John FX]

2 hours ago, Red Iron Crown said:

Software limitation, I'm afraid. Changes to these sorts of things only get applied when the content is updated, same goes for the profanity filter and the acronym hints. 

I thought as much but I thought I would mention it, at least the next person who comes along will (in theory) read this and have an answer.

Thanks for stopping any more.

[Kerbart]

3 hours ago, Red Iron Crown said:

Software limitation, I'm afraid. Changes to these sorts of things only get applied when the content is updated, same goes for the profanity filter and the acronym hints. 

Not a matter of UPDATE user SET location=LEFT(location, 50) ?

Edited July 6, 2017 by Kerbart
Because posting through mobile devices... is not optimal.

[klesh]

23 hours ago, John FX said:

I came here to start a thread about this so I will join this one.

If there is a limit, it only affects new locations.

Old, long locations are still displayed.

 

I noticed that too, but I already had those folks on ignore so I decided not to complain too much.

[kerbiloid]

12 hours ago, Kerbart said:

Not a matter of UPDATE user SET location=LEFT(location, 50) ?

Even no need to change the site engine, just once per day run this postfactum.

Edited July 7, 2017 by kerbiloid

[WinkAllKerb'']

imho location we're bound too are often too small, wich tend to restrict our sight of things out of this/thoose/that location(s) ... but well ... [insert some boring historical & evolve wall of text stuff] 2cp

Edited July 9, 2017 by WinkAllKerb''