6 posts · 476 views · started 2016-07-21 05:57 UTC
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Arcanist_Lupus
2016-07-21 05:57 UTC
#1
An easy challenge: Can anyone figure out what is wrong with the attached image?
A challenge that is easy for some, and hard for others: Can you replicate what I did?
A challenge that is probably pretty difficult for everyone: Can you explain what caused this?
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Pydro
2016-07-21 12:41 UTC
#2
Well, well. That shouldn’t be.
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arenson9
2016-07-21 15:45 UTC
#3
Not sure which error you're referring to:
The ability to edit someone else's comment.
The fact that there is no visible content and the content is limited to 51200 characters, but only 49850 remain.
If the 1st, then I think the confusion is that 'grysqrl wrote' is the name of the forum topic, not the owner of the comment.
If the 2nd, my guess is that the chracters are there but have been made white so we can't see them.
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Arcanist_Lupus
2016-07-21 17:49 UTC
#4
You’re basically right. I went to edit one of my posts in the Ask a Forumite thread, and got the screen shown above. The text box was not editable, but the post I was trying to edit had text in it (including a quote from grysqrl).
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Pydro
2016-07-21 17:52 UTC
#5
Well, I was confused by the ability to delete the post.
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arenson9
2016-07-21 22:21 UTC
#6
Huh. That's much different than what I thought I wrote. Sounds like a bug where somehow the quoted text got moved up into the name of the topic. At a guess, it's somehow caused by odd characters that confused the HTML or some internal code that got confused on quotation marks.