You are not the only one to have suggested that Reaper about the different "boxes" for the applications ... yes it's possible ..do I have time to code that? No ... I am sure there is more than one way I could do that , but already the applications go to their respected forum where you can just go and look at the applications per game ...
As for the character count ... believe me I was trying to add that all last night and I fell asleep with this on my mind ... The problem here is that it is very difficult to make the script/code distinguish what is a "valid" character and what is not ... you have to keep in mind that some posts might contain bb code, images, smilies, emojis, characters like (.............) or (----------) which are used by a lot of members like "ME" lol ...
Right now a post of two sentences divided by two paragraphs "will" put you over 200 characters ... really one line has more than the 100 character threshold ..so actually 2 lines of text "will" put you over 200 easily ...