be careful with the angle brackets folks. The white-on-white spam post below (or wherever) had an open angle bracket used as an arrow... bad idea, now I can't edit it, and maybe you can't comment on it either. Anyhow, white-text spam links are now in the wild. Keep them peepers peeled and set your spidey senses to Paranoid.
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what if some of the spammers start using that breakage technique to get rid of the whole "flag" link? That weakness has to go... and also that thing that causes uncapped bold tags to carry over the message end boundary! It's a sign that something isn't properly insulated, and that can probably be abused.
Anyway; I guess the simplest solution to white-on-white links is to disable the *angle bracket begin*font color=FFFFFF*angle bracket end* code from parsing... that IS possible, right? Just take out all ability to choose the color of links or text posted; nobody uses it, anyway (except for me, I've used it to hide messages for the wary in plain sight... but I am crazy anyway :) )
didn't wanna wade into where the ether is leaking in, I see. I didn't actually mess up the code, I just had a period right after the closing /a tag, and then a "<" right after that period... instant breakage. < /a >.<
Look here: http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-345995-3511722 This post has done something funky... if you mouseover the white space to the right of the flag links, you'll see a link is there... it seems they messed up the tags so the link probably doesn work... but that's not all! Every post after that message is messed up, showing no text at all, no flag links, no vote buttons.
Not a problem really, since they're all spam.
Since when did Combofix become hot property with Google? Maybe I need to retool my assumptions on what attracts the spammers.
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Sorry for breaking TR...
The white-on-white spam post below (or wherever) had an open angle bracket used as an arrow... bad idea, now I can't edit it, and maybe you can't comment on it either.
Anyhow, white-text spam links are now in the wild.
Keep them peepers peeled and set your spidey senses to Paranoid.