My apologies if this has been posted before. I did a search on the forums, but didn't find a topic relating to it, but was only able to search back as far as 30 Days (the any date search kept timing out and wouldn't return any results).

I was wondering if anyone else thinks that the character limit on contribution notes should be increased, even if just slightly.

Tonight I finished updating the profile for the Canadian edition of Alias: The Complete Fourth Season.

In my contribution, I made these changes:

Country of Origin
Case Type
Studios/Media Companies
Features
Crew
Cast

My contribution notes had about 30-35% of them cut off due to the character limit.

I realize no one wants to read a novel in the contribution notes, and usually I'm as concise and to the point as possible, as I was with my notes here. But, having to explain that yes, the digipak does actually come in a slip cover, where I got the information from for actor's characters that weren't credited with a character name during the credits, an instance of an uncredited cast member and the timestamp they appeared during the episode (while also stating it wasn't archive footage), and three cases of using the credited as field for the cast, while stating the CLT results and that yes I did the research to ensure the accuracy of the credited as fields I applied was WAY more than the character limit could handle! 

I find in general even, that if you're doing a regular film update instead of adding an entire season's worth of cast and crew, that if you have more than three or four credited as fields being applied, or have made numerous changes to already exisiting data, that your notes can get cut off anyway. I can't imagine how much of my notes would've gotten cut off it I had seven or eight instances of Credited As during the season, which is more than capable of happening to any given television season.

Not that I'm campaigning for the change or anything, just wanted to see if anyone else has run into this problem on different occasions. And yes, I realize your notes are viewable in the closed forum for notes, but not everyone will check there (I edited my notes tonight to include the link, which then cut off more of my notes  ). And hey, if you don't need the extra space for your notes, it's not like it takes up more room or anything!

Although they get chopped at a certain point if viewing through the voting screen, the full notes can still be read. When on the screen for choosing which to evaluate, if you click the button on the left hand side, it will take you to the full history for that UPC/EAN & your notes will show in full. It's not ideal as not everyone knows about it (I didn't until a few months ago) but just so you know.

I do agree that it would make sense to show all of the contribution on the voting screen.

As for searches timing out, do a Google search and put "site:invelos.com" at the end without the quotes. That works much better than the forum search.

North, that doesn't work, unless he would wait until the first contribution was approved. If you submit a contribution on top of an existing one, the first one is wiped out. Besides, why increase the work load of the screeners to create 2 submissions if you have all of the work ready to submit.

As others said, the notes aren't really lost, just not displayed. I and others have complained about this behavior of the evaluation screen since the change in notes display was first noticed. IMO, at the very least, if the notes exceed the display area, then the evaluation screen should clearly indicate there is an overflow. Something like:
"The contribution notes have been truncated, click here to read them all" at the last line would be great.

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North, that doesn't work, unless he would wait until the first contribution was approved.

You're right, I forgot to make that clear.

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Something like:
"The contribution notes have been truncated, click here to read them all" at the last line would be great.

Excellent suggestion!

23 vs. 4 at this point, so apparently a few think a limit increase would be helpful.