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Re: DE,,,Why when we reply to a post the title gets all these crazy symbols and bullchit that wasn't in the original title?? 

By: Decomposed in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (1)
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Re: "Why ... the title gets all these crazy symbols"
It's because HTML can harm a forum. Remember the occasions when I busted the Pope board? That's because I got sloppy and posted some things that didn't work right.

The authors of AtomicBobs wrote code to change "dangerous" characters in users' posts into other characters when they submit their messages, to render potentially executable code harmless. Most of the time, those "other characters" are converted back to the original characters when users read them, and that works well... but there are a few places where the programmers forgot to convert them back, letting us see the alternate characters and creating ugly subject lines. Worst of all is when those substituted character strings are converted into still uglier strings as users reply to replies, and reply to replies to replies. We've all seen that.

I don't want to call this a bug . . . but, yeah, that's what it is.




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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


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DE,,,Why when we reply to a post the title gets all these crazy symbols and bullchit that wasn't in the original title??
By: capt_nemo
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Sat, 20 Apr 19 6:00 AM
Msg. 30551 of 62138

My reply to your post had 2 lines with all this crap. Now it has one and is one character shorter then yours LOL


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