My post here has a lot of text:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775881.msg8970073#msg8970073 - in fact it is at the limit.
People replying to it will not be seen, as is demonstrated by the replies in that thread; their reply is truncated off the end with no warnings about the post being over the character limit. Moreso, when the forum inserts the "quote" bbcode, it uses up more characters and eats into the OP data!
Same problem when editing the post: if I continue typing and save, there is no "over size" warning, the edited version with added data is truncated. In fact, I had to remove some of the addresses from the post in order to edit it adding a warning to would-be repliers, I filled in the end with a few hundred hyphens and they were cut off when editing, so we know the exact maximum number of characters.
People generally won't be going near the the limit, but the reason there is a limit is because we are saying smaller than X is OK. This is a bug because of the lack of warning before posting an edit or replying and losing everything you typed.
