Character limits for title and description

[gunhilltrain]

The FAQ for submissions has this: "Unfortunately, there's no set number of characters so you have to sort of play it by ear. Essentially, the Title and the Description should all fit on one line when viewed in the story archive index. It's not always met because it's not easy to gauge how long the title and the description are together until it's too late."

However, I noticed that there does seem to be limits now, with I think is 35 characters for titles and 60 for descriptions. This seems to be a recent change (in the last couple of weeks?).

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Those have been the character limits since I started submitting to Lit last year.

 

[weftandwarp]

The FAQ for submissions has this: "Unfortunately, there's no set number of characters so you have to sort of play it by ear. Essentially, the Title and the Description should all fit on one line when viewed in the story archive index. It's not always met because it's not easy to gauge how long the title and the description are together until it's too late."

However, I noticed that there does seem to be limits now, with I think is 35 characters for titles and 60 for descriptions. This seems to be a recent change (in the last couple of weeks?).

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

Haha. So funny. They gave me a hard times at the bloody council. It was expensive. Cost me thousands, more than thirty of them and it wasn't my fault. Next I had to register my dog. The form they gave me had an allocation of about fifteen boxes for her name to fit into. I went next door to the newsagent (Why aren't there oldsagents?) and bought paper and glue. I glued the paper to the form, about 30 A4 pages (could have been more) so they have to unroll the paper to read my dog's name. My dog now has one hundred and eighty four letters in her name and I drew a square for every one of them

They weren't going to accept it but I told them if my dog''s name wasn't on it she wouldn't be registered and I wasn't going to register a fictitious dog. She's my dog and I can give her what ever name I bloody well want.

There were a lot of people behind me waiting to be served. The woman capitulated, took my money and the crowd applauded. I wasn't the only one there to have a problem with the council.

Every time I go there now they look at me kind of funny. They're also very careful with what they say. I know her registration form is a problem to file. A small satisfaction.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

The mods can make exceptions if asked nicely in the notes block.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The mods can make exceptions if asked nicely in the notes block.

I didn't know that. Might come in useful one day. Ta.

 

[KeithD]

The mods can make exceptions if asked nicely in the notes block.

The "mods" are not connected with story submissions. There's only one submissions editor here. Laurel.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

The "mods" are not connected with story submissions. There's only one submissions editor here. Laurel.

Quite so. Consider my wrist properly slapped.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Haha. So funny. They gave me a hard times at the bloody council. It was expensive. Cost me thousands, more than thirty of them and it wasn't my fault. Next I had to register my dog. The form they gave me had an allocation of about fifteen boxes for her name to fit into. I went next door to the newsagent (Why aren't there oldsagents?) and bought paper and glue. I glued the paper to the form, about 30 A4 pages (could have been more) so they have to unroll the paper to read my dog's name. My dog now has one hundred and eighty four letters in her name and I drew a square for every one of them

They weren't going to accept it but I told them if my dog''s name wasn't on it she wouldn't be registered and I wasn't going to register a fictitious dog. She's my dog and I can give her what ever name I bloody well want.

There were a lot of people behind me waiting to be served. The woman capitulated, took my money and the crowd applauded. I wasn't the only one there to have a problem with the council.

Every time I go there now they look at me kind of funny. They're also very careful with what they say. I know her registration form is a problem to file. A small satisfaction.

Was this woman the same person who gave you all that trouble? I certainly hope you're not griefing some random customer-service worker just because you have an issue with her employer.

I have a friend who works checkout at a supermarket. Recently the company changed its policy so they no longer give out plastic bags for free. Now my friend gets abused by people who are mad about not getting the free bags. This is a national chain, that policy came from head office, but apparently grown men think it's acceptable to hassle some teenager on minimum wage for a decision they had zero say in.

 

[weftandwarp]

Was this woman the same person who gave you all that trouble? I certainly hope you're not griefing some random customer-service worker just because you have an issue with her employer.

I have a friend who works checkout at a supermarket. Recently the company changed its policy so they no longer give out plastic bags for free. Now my friend gets abused by people who are mad about not getting the free bags. This is a national chain, that policy came from head office, but apparently grown men think it's acceptable to hassle some teenager on minimum wage for a decision they had zero say in.

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YES . Same one - of course.
I make my own bags too, have done for more than ten years. Ever since I walked along a beach and found turtles washed up dead.

 

[Requiax]

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

Haha. So funny. They gave me a hard times at the bloody council. It was expensive. Cost me thousands, more than thirty of them and it wasn't my fault. Next I had to register my dog. The form they gave me had an allocation of about fifteen boxes for her name to fit into. I went next door to the newsagent (Why aren't there oldsagents?) and bought paper and glue. I glued the paper to the form, about 30 A4 pages (could have been more) so they have to unroll the paper to read my dog's name. My dog now has one hundred and eighty four letters in her name and I drew a square for every one of them

They weren't going to accept it but I told them if my dog''s name wasn't on it she wouldn't be registered and I wasn't going to register a fictitious dog. She's my dog and I can give her what ever name I bloody well want.

There were a lot of people behind me waiting to be served. The woman capitulated, took my money and the crowd applauded. I wasn't the only one there to have a problem with the council.

Every time I go there now they look at me kind of funny. They're also very careful with what they say. I know her registration form is a problem to file. A small satisfaction.

People like you made my working life hell for years.

You realise your victory isn’t even that? The person whose job it is to enter what you wrote on the form into the computerised record will have the same character limit in their (probably hopelessly outdated due to chronic underfunding of public services) software and they won’t be able to stick a bit of paper on to change that. So no, your dog won’t have one hundred and eighty four letters in her name in the record. It will have the first fifteen of whatever absurdist nonsense you wrote to try and be big man to some hapless clerk who didn’t design the form you were being asked to use.

Still, fight the power, eh?

 

[weftandwarp]

People like you made my working life hell for years.

You realise your victory isn’t even that? The person whose job it is to enter what you wrote on the form into the computerised record will have the same character limit in their (probably hopelessly outdated due to chronic underfunding of public services) software and they won’t be able to stick a bit of paper on to change that. So no, your dog won’t have one hundred and eighty four letters in her name in the record. It will have the first fifteen of whatever absurdist nonsense you wrote to try and be big man to some hapless clerk who didn’t design the form you were being asked to use.

Still, fight the power, eh?

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Fight the abuse of power? Yes. Every time. The records have all the letters in her name. Respect isn't one sided.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

How fucking long does a story title need to be? The Wet and Sultry Tales of Jenna Marie Branton: The Sucubitic Brainless Bimbo, Sorority Years Prequel