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Automatically added redundant markdown when editing

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After making an edit that only adds tags, some redundant markdown is added to the beginning of the body of the post. This does not show up in the rendered post but it gives an inaccurate edit history.

For an example, see the edit history of another Meta question.

Edit history showing tags are added but also raw markdown

Recently I have noticed this string of 4 characters added to various different posts by myself and others, and it now seems the editing of tags only may not be related. For example, see the final 4 characters of a recent edit that did not involve tags.

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  • Operating system: Fedora 38
  • Browser: Firefox 114.0

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Still happening? (4 comments)
Still happening?
Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 1 year ago

I can't reproduce this now in a current dev environment. Have you seen more cases of this, or might it have been fixed by an update made since this post?

trichoplax‭ wrote about 1 year ago

I haven't found a way to reproduce this, or spotted anything in common between the different edits in which it happens. I haven't seen it for probably a few months, but it was rare so I don't know if that means it's fixed or not.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 1 year ago

How about if I mark it as status-complete for now, which will bump the post, and if people see it again we can reopen?

Skipping 1 deleted comment.

trichoplax‭ wrote about 1 year ago

Sounds like a good plan.