AtomicRax Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 I'm currently working on a project that allows registered users to post their own stories on a website. The stories go in the "story" field of my table, which has a type of "text" - which has a 65,000 byte limit. HTML is not allowed in these stories for several reasons, but I was wondering if there is a recommended size limit for the story field in my table? I know it depends on the application, but I don't want to allow users to post a TON of useless information- especially if it's not a true story for the website and just spam (storage limits and what not)... I would, however, like to give them enough space to completely tell it. So I was looking for comments about this situation... Should I leave it as 65,000, go larger, smaller..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POG1 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 What you could to stop spam and poo stories is have them be accepted or rejected before they are allowed. 65,000 is good enough for a decent short story (not a novel). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicRax Posted July 22, 2009 Author Share Posted July 22, 2009 With a single person, it could take a while to accept stories. And if you have other website visitors do this, it seems like the idea has been done by fmylife.com already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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