The title is quite self-explanatory, I think. But really, this has been a question I've been asking myself for quite a while now - is there actually a reason? If not, who's up for a petition to change this? 
Is there actually a reason for the limited number of users in a conversation?
- Thread starter ThomazM
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Well, I foresee this as a measure against spammers
If there was no limit to the number of users in a conversation, I'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make a spambot that pulls a list of members and messages everybody
And there are spambots that target these forums, Many of them are actually illiterate too, which is quite odd.. can't really figure out what they're trying to get you to do, and don't give you a reason to click on that totally non-suspicious link at the bottom of their post.
If there was no limit to the number of users in a conversation, I'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make a spambot that pulls a list of members and messages everybody
And there are spambots that target these forums, Many of them are actually illiterate too, which is quite odd.. can't really figure out what they're trying to get you to do, and don't give you a reason to click on that totally non-suspicious link at the bottom of their post.
And that's about it. The fact that we swear a lot here and we don't get censored or banned by the software itself is kinda odd, too. I mean, part of the EULA for the XenForo forum software is "No swearing or you'll be banned", so what the fuck is up with that?
An easy-fix would be to make the joining in conversations request only. Wouldn't it fix it?
I changed the limit to 20 users, that should be more than enough.
Wait, do we have a language filter? I would test but I think posting a list of all the swears I know might be in poor taste and take some time to remember all the good ones.
Not that I've ever seen.
But it really should be implemented, YX will need it!
Well done @ThomazM, you have made the convos bigger, something we have all requested (or wanted) in the past.
Umm... sure I'll get right on bopping people for mildly bad language... cause I don't have enough to do.
That's exactly why no one is asking for people to be banned for that, because a unneeded load is added that the moderators must carry above and beyond just keeping things civil.
...Plus I am pretty tame with my swearing. If @RealSketch wants me to swear less, I'll just pick up the slack in languages other then English. Hence, my swearing is tame, because English swearing is tame.
But slowpoke is ok with swearing!
There is a quote of him in my siggy saying he didnt read the terms or something for this forum... It was in that thread.
Eh. That'd be annoying. Swears are just words like any others, and are used as amplifiers. Most of us really don't care, or learn to ignore it.
But when it happens literally all the time, that would be #1 on my forum requests list.
Other languages is fine.