Green challenge thingy....

Regarding the green challenge, the rules say at least 500 characters long.

Is that characters or words? (never saw a characters criteria for an article/text type thing before.) Or maybe it was supposed to be … or less … to keep them shorter.

The 2 entries so far looked like they were less.

I was hoping it was at least 500 words ‘cause once stuff starts falling out of my brain, it’s hard to stop. Didn’t want to get disqualified ‘cause I can’t shut up.

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