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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8868342" data-attributes="member: 93670">Depends on how it's done.   I don't know the limits on the form but lets say it's a nice round 250 words on the form for purpose of discussion.  Imagine this process:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alice from the survey crunching research group tells their contact person Bob at their new client that survey responses shouldn't be more than about a page.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bob tells Cindy in webdev that they need a form with these questions from  Dave's group  but  the survey team says to make sure no answers are more than about a page max.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cindy starts working on building a form after firing off a ticket to Eddie in serverOps or whatever  saying that she needs a database named survey _xxx with the following fields.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eddie's team kicks it back saying they need more info about the text fields they need to create</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cindy consults google to see that a page is about 250 words &fires it back saying no more than a page or 250 words.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eddie's team sighs because they told Cindy they need a number of characters not words or pages.  They too consult google & see that a page is about 1800 characters & that a word is usually considered 5 characters.  They look at Cindy's ticket where it says "no more than A or B" so they set the limit to 1250 characters because you get that from  250*5</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Frank uses the eventual form to submit some stuff but is 75 words over, many of the first 250 words he used are more than 5 characters too so his average is already like 6 or 7 characters per word.  He uses the validation defeat mentioned to add 75 more but only the first 15o words even get into the db so the rest never even had a chance.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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