Simple Question: What is the character limit for a post?
 

I believe I've encountered this hindrance but only once, but is the standard limit for total characters to be allowed within a single post universally set at 10,000 characters, or is it even higher at around 12,000 characters? Elsewhere, I also encountered the limit in private messaging, where it stated that the limit was exactly half of what I had originally perceived, at no more than 5,000 characters allowed to be properly sent.

I just wish to know for future reference, and I would also like to know if there was ever an impetus for this limit to be changed at all (or just tell me if it is even possible to increase/reduce the number of type symbols allowed).

I think there is, actually. I haven't a clue what it is.

50,000 for posts. I don't remember what it is for PMs

I'm intrinsically-aware of the limit, say at around 10,000 characters, from what I've heard and seen through sources, although I've never encountered it myself yet--but I'm not sure if the same is to be said here at the TFP; perhaps it can be altered to a higher limit, and has been before.

Also, does the character total tally include blank spaces and character inside brackets?

---------- Post added at 03:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:10 PM ----------

After Cyn's post:
Wow, that's extensively higher than I orginally speculated; I really shouldn't ever fear having to hit that limit then... thanks for the quickest of replies.

I'm not sure about blank spaces, but all characters are counted including the brackets.

That's what I thought... alright, again, thanks for the question's quick resolution.

I'm pretty sure Host used to come close to the limit on some of his posts...

Yes, he did. In fact, there were a number of times he surpassed it, sometimes twice over. (We know this because he would make multiple posts in a row to get around it.)