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Seemingly being unable to type a certain word on Barbelith.

 
 
Olulabelle
20:08 / 18.11.06
In this thread Opps!! seems to be unable to type a certain word on to Barbelith and have it appear. By this I mean this poster is typing a word, but when the post posts it appears as *****. (Star star star star star).

In PM's the word also appears as *****, which makes trying to establish what the word actually is rather Pythonesque. As a result of this I have asked Opps!! to spell it out phonetically, (ess pee eee ell ell for example) to see if that works.

With regard to the star effect, I can't work out what's going on. I'm presuming that there are not 'banned' words on Barbelith, and that there is not some kind of weird coding to disallow words. I've looked in the source code for the page and all I can see is the ***** that appears.

I am assured that Opps!! is not actually typing ***** and is in fact typing a word, so can anyone help out with what the holy cow is going on?
 
 
Olulabelle
20:56 / 18.11.06
Right, the word is apparently 'worry', which is a perfectly ordinary sensible word. Why would it somehow become *****?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:08 / 18.11.06
Maybe Opps! is using some kind of weird New Age browser that encourages positive thinking and won't allow the word "worry" to pass its gaze...
 
 
Olulabelle
21:57 / 18.11.06
Opps!! says that there is no family filter but goddam it I didn't think to ask him about a New Age one...

Yes indeedy Bob.
 
 
*
05:15 / 19.11.06
Someone's screwing around. Assuming it's not Tom having an uncharacteristic larf, could someone please look mightily impressed, so the poor bastard can go away and perhaps stumble upon a life somewhere?
 
  
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