It happened again. No title only link and the format has changed

[question everything]

where we cannot view all the information

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218127297

Is there a way to block such posts?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. People need to not put links as their subject lines

Don't think you can block them as such.

[Marcus IM]

2. DUer who posted link has 66,000+ posts of DU experience. One would think that by now ... n/t

[question everything]

3. Last time it happened EarlG had to fix it

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1256&pid=22045



Someone posted an LBN story using the link to the article as the title by accident. Since links have no spaces in them, the title did not break across lines and pushed all the content of the page far out to the right hand side. That's why you were only experiencing the issue on page 1, and not on subsequent pages.

I removed the thread entirely so hopefully that will have fixed the issue for you.

[WhiteTara]

4. scroll on

it's not worth your aggravation.

[question everything]

7. I cannot. It changes the format of the whole page as you can see from EarlG

post, above.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Trash it.

[usonian]

6. The site bounces my posts when there's a funny character in the title.

Sometimes converts the character or removes it. Might be defense against hackers.

But I and others will get an error for no obvious reason on some posts while others go through ok.

I suspect that it's Unicode characters in the body that the site doesn't like. Again might be defense. Perhaps against SQL injection or suspected ddos attacks. They don't tell me the defensive positions and arms!

And I wear a white hat!

[kimbutgar]

8. I've seen it on long time posters today

I tried three times with the codes and by the third one I could barely read the code to copy.

Is this a twitter thing?

[Pinback]

9. Annoying.

Of course the correct subject line format would be:
“Found on Twitter”
or
“(Somebody) for the win”
or
“Tweet of the day”
or
“(Somebody) tweet.”

/s

[question everything]

10. Post was removed. Thank you moderators (or whatever the term is now)

[Yonnie3]

11. It wasn't the Hosts

We don't have that sort of power and there are no moderators any more. One of the admins must have taken action.

The hosts did message the poster, who then went to fix the post but it was already gone.

[EarlG]

12. I removed the post

My bad, I thought I'd posted a response to this thread already but I must have forgotten to hit the post button.

[question everything]

13. Most of us stay after we post, especially an OP, to view it, catch typos

or edit to clarify. In some cases, replying to first comments.

Here - I am looking at my first and last posts - it took almost three hours for the post to be removed as the poster was not around during that time to correct it.

In order to view all the information on the page, the post had to either be corrected or removed.

[Yonnie3]

14. I'm not sure why you are telling me this

Hosts cannot do anything but lock a post and I am not the original poster.

A locked post's title would still be visible and continue to cause this issue.