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Old 11-13-2012, 11:47 AM   #1
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Default What's with all the asterisks?

Am I the only one seeing these or am I just missing out on some kind of joke?
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Old 11-13-2012, 11:48 AM   #2
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They're everywhere** I came here to post about it but you beat me** Forum is invaded by them**
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Old 11-13-2012, 11:48 AM   #3
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THE END IS NIGH!

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Old 11-13-2012, 11:49 AM   #5
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Someone tried to put "dot-c-o-m" on the filter list
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Old 11-13-2012, 11:49 AM   #6
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The spam filter has gone nuts it is attempting to filter out everything containing periods and other web address parts
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I am seeing it too** Wasn't here when I logged in around 6 this morning**
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YESSSSS


My thread won!
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Old 11-13-2012, 11:50 AM   #9
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It's a prelude to invasion**
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Haxxor?



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I put in one period there and it got replaced with two asterisks
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Old 11-13-2012, 11:56 AM   #13
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All your Periods are belong to us
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or something along those lines
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If I ****, I Would **** you before **** I do such **** to ******
Your mother is a **********

Ok, this could be fun after all

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or something along those lines
Emoticons are broken as well--
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The ***mies are ***ing, or there is a ***edian moderator, or maybe it is celebrate the asterix day, and down with c o m?
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ATOT strikes yet another blow against the English language!
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Old 11-13-2012, 12:05 PM   #18
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lol, I was thinking that it was just AT trolling the OP for having so many asterisks in his first post** But I guess it's a legit issue**
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At first, I thought Chrome bugged out on me** So I tried all the browsers and its the same everywhere**

Good to know its not on my end** I was just going through the Hume thread and suddenly all the images disappeared**
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Old 11-13-2012, 12:28 PM   #21
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When filtering goes nuts [period]
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it looks like its blocking "c-u-m" and "c-o-m"
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Old 11-13-2012, 12:40 PM   #23
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Old 11-13-2012, 12:51 PM   #24
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I am seeing too and was about to start a post about it. But then I found this thread. It seems to be doing it mostly to words that start with "com". I don't know why, but something is messed up somewhere.

As noted in another post here, issue is now fixed .. hope it stays that way.

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Old 11-13-2012, 12:56 PM   #25
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It is a URL filter gone nuts[period] It is trying to detect the [dot] or the c0m in URLS[period] and is masking them[period]

I wonder what other tlds set it off[period]

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edit: It looks like only c0m[period]
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