Digg.com recently put a new comment system in place. The comment system allows you to edit your comments after you post them – so that you can go back in and change any spelling mistakes… etc – and not have to continue posting comments there. It is a nice feature.
I noticed when pasting Pi to the 1000 decimal place on a response to this post that digg wont break a long string of characters automatically – and it wont show the part that runs off of the page.
I then edited my post and pasted in Pi to 100,000 decimal places. When I posted it, look at what I saw:
That’s almost 8 hours. Clearly, digg gives you a longer time to edit based on the number of characters in your post (not the number of words, obviously – because both of those long strings of numbers would only be considered one word.) This should probably be capped so that a reasonable value (say, 10 or 15 minutes) is the maximum value.
