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Sorry for breaking TR...

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by ansugisalas

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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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by ansugisalas

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 :) )

by Tammy.Cavadias

... brush up on your BB code skills :-)

We are aware of this issue (and other HTML tag issues) and are working on resolving it/them

-Tammy [_]3

by seanferd

Down the bottom.

I've been debating about giving some feedback of my own on another matter, not that it would mean squat around here.

Anyway, I missed it. Angle brackets can break TR again? I wonder if not closing a tag can do that now.

edit: Oh, I see what you did. Nice!

n case that wild specimen has been cleaned up by the time you see this, it worked like this.

by purpleskys

I really like the italics :D ! but how on earth does this work? Keep in mind, i have little experience in the whole building websites thing so this is interesting to me :)

edit to add: but my italics didn't stick...sniff ;)

by hal 9000

Not only does it apply to the actual Thread but to everything else as well.

Seems that they fixed this with the last version of TR and then completely Ignored it with the Site Redesign so they have to reinvent the wheel all over again. :^0

Last time someone broke TR Doug didn't appreciate them posting it in an Open Forum where the remainder of the Spammers could learn it and use it against the Site Designers. Now prepare to have you [b]Naughty Little Bottom Smacked as Punishment.[/b] :p

Col

by hal 9000

Spankings are no good as you enjoy them way too much. Just like your mother used to say to the Babysitter Don't Spank the Little _Shite when he's naughty which is all of the time as he considers that a Reward. Make him eat Chocolate Ice Cream and he'll behave. :D

Col [i]

by ansugisalas

but I guess, now that Camping has got it figured out, I won't have to worry about all that chocolate ice cream being fattening.

by hal 9000

Bottom Smacking being just plain [b]Kinky?[/b]

Personally I could do with caring a bit of Excess Weight as apposed to having everyone call me Kinky. :^0

No let me think about that for a while. I'll get back to you on that one. ;)

Col

by charliespencer

Kinky is when you ask your partner to tickle you with a feather duster. Sick is when you ask for a live chicken.

by ansugisalas

didn't wanna wade into where the ether is leaking in, I see. :p
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 >.<

by ansugisalas

Or... what's the verdict on asking to be tickled with a feather duster, while eating a chicken sandwich?
Borderline?

by hal 9000

Depends if the chicken in the sandwich is live or not when you started to eat the sandwich. ;)

OH BTW it's defiantly not Borderline it's way over the Border and well into Kinky. Or so I'm told. :p

Though to be perfectly honest it's still not as good as my young nephew who several years ago after his youngest brother was born when asked what he wanted for dinner that night replied [b]Boiled Baby.[/b] Not a great hit with his mother but I'm still laughing 8 years latter. :D

Col

by ansugisalas

Look here: https://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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