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"Empty" posts can be created with invisible Unicode characters
I've fixed this for a bunch more of these characters, but there are endless numbers of Unicode characters that can be ab …
5mo ago
This is not a bug. It's possible to post a post with any other Unicode character, why not these? We don't have automated …
5mo ago
Yeah, so this is a bug. See this to see how it's done. Basically it involves copying invisible CSS characters into a …
5mo ago
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I've fixed this for a bunch more of these characters, but there are endless numbers of Unicode characters that can be abused to do things like this.
Solution: don't do this.
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Not to put more on your plate, but this is possible with html characters like this: ‎
I'm sure it is, @10Rep - see above for solution.
This is not a bug. It's possible to post a post with any other Unicode character, why not these? We don't have automated systems (yet) to patrol content: we rely on humans to do that. This is an example of bad content that people shouldn't post and that people will patrol. Posting an empty-looking post is no worse (arguably is better) than posting a post full of nonsense.
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Yeah, so this is a bug. See this to see how it's done. — 10 Rep 5 months ago