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In the VB.Net Forum, you can select your version, and it will add it to the title box.
If you are creating a message and have only the version year in the textbox, it will say your message is too short. If you then click "Preview", you can preview it change it etc., but if you press "Submit New Thread", it will allow you to post the message, with out a title, just the version year.
I think that you should change it to be like the main post message screen.
That message is in place to deter such behavior. Threads should have descriptive titles so that someone browsing the forum can understand what it's about.
There are two different validations going on there. One is for the title which only needs 1 character in length and the other is for the message body text which is set at 4 characters.
With the custom version selection code that was written, its just easier to keep it simple as for future site upgrades. It is in the members best interest if they want a reply that they give the thread a sensible title or who will want to take the time to read the thread to see what its about and if they can/want to answer it.
I was just saying that, because some times I forget, and wasn't sure if anyone knew about that.
Yes we know but to make the length independant upon the "[2008]" prefix will take more tweaking and if the member removed the prefix then the min length will be a problem if we try to compensate for it etc. but Thanks for mentioning it :)
This issue could be eliminated if we ever upgrade to 3.7.x version of vBulletin as it contains a built in freature - Thread Prefixes. :D