"Zedong"... A forbidden word.

Hi. When I write "Z e d o n g", a space is automatically added between the "d" and the "o".

When I post it, it becomes, Zedong.

Example: www.abovetopsecret.com...

Just wanted to report this weird, but funny small bug.

Swan

... And the word w i n d o w. It keeps coming out as an underscore.

ETA: www.abovetopsecret.com...
You can see it spelled out when you quote the text ... it just won't show up in the thread.

reply to post by Snarl


Yeah, I know. w i n d o w . :

window.

That's because Microsoft's WIndow 8 is so bad, it's being interpreted by ATS system as a swear word...

You can see it spelled out when you quote the text ... it just won't show up in the thread.

Same thing with Zedong.

reply to post by swanne


the post you showed there was no space, and if it's a red squiggly line it's spell checker.

see you can type ze dong Ze dong . now if you quote me the first will be underlined as. if you use a capital Z the line goes away.

it is seen as a proper name.

Snarl
... And the word w i n d o w. It keeps coming out as an underscore.

ETA: www.abovetopsecret.com...
You can see it spelled out when you quote the text ... it just won't show up in the thread.

edit on 25112013 by Snarl because: ETA

I was just getting ready to post that! They are weird words to just be blocked. Hopefully someone will come along shortly with an answer.

reply to post by swanne

The software secretly agrees with me that his name is really Mao Tse-Tung.
I wonder if it will correct "Beijing" back to "Peking".

hounddoghowlie
reply to post by swanne

 

the post you showed there was no space, and if it's a red squiggly line it's spell checker.

No, I got no spell checker problem. Are you saying that in the OP, you can't see the space in "zedong" (and in "Zedong")?

In other words, does that link works for you: en.wikipedia.org...

When I browse ATS, this link doesn't work anymore because there's a space appearing in the posted version - which of course screws the link's address.

swanne

hounddoghowlie
reply to post by swanne

 

the post you showed there was no space, and if it's a red squiggly line it's spell checker.

No, there's no red line problem. You're saying that in the OP, you really can't see a space in "zedong" (and in "Zedong")?

In other words, does that link works for you: en.wikipedia.org...

When I browse ATS, this link doesn't work anymore because there's a space appearing in the posted version - which of course screws the link's address.

edit on 25-11-2013 by swanne because: (no reason given)

" Zedong" Zedong

there is no spacs in the ( "" ) marks or in the one i just made, lets see what happens when i post.

swanne

hounddoghowlie
reply to post by swanne

 

the post you showed there was no space, and if it's a red squiggly line it's spell checker.

No, there's no red line problem. You're saying that in the OP, you really can't see a space in "zedong" (and in "Zedong")?

In other words, does that link works for you: en.wikipedia.org...

When I browse ATS, this link doesn't work anymore because there's a space appearing in the posted version - which of course screws the link's address.

Ohhhhh ... that's tripping. Sometimes I see the space ... sometimes I don't. That's definitely different!!!!

ETA1: Let me make sure I get this right for anyone doing a review. The first time I saw your post I didn't see it. After I wrote the post about window I did. After coming back ... the space is gone ... even after I initially submitted this post. Let's see after this ETA.


ETA2: Swanne, you're right. Now it's back again.


ETA3: I sent an alert on this thread.

reply to post by Snarl


reply to post by hounddoghowlie


Now I don't see the space anymore. It already did that some days ago.

You're right Snarl, sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. Sometime the link will work, some other time it won't.

Weird...

We got ourselves an ATS virtual Nessie, folks!



EDIT (about 5 minutes later):

Now the space is back. The link stopped working again.

That's really weird.

reply to post by swanne


yep now it's doing in my last post, but not your op.

ETA: and after i posted the above it went back to no space.

Zedong, Zeedong, Zzeedong, Zzeedonggg...

I have to see this for myself.

reply to post by cartenz


Poor Mao. Well, on second thought, he probably deserved this...

swanne
reply to post by cartenz

 

Poor Mao. Well, on second thought, he probably deserved this...

Whoa ohh ... it does it on U2U's too. I just sent a note to cartenz ... and it was there ... then it wasn't.

ETA: Okay .. Bed time. Day shift's gotta handle this one. Good nite all!

reply to post by swanne


I think certain words are flagged by ATS and shown with spaces. I know certain illegal drug names seem to have those spaces like the full version of coke - coc aine. (See if that now has a space after I post this).

The window glitch I believe has to do with html coding or something like that, and I believe it only happens when you type the word followed by a period like this: window.

I haven't posted this yet, but if I'm correct you should see the first window but not the last one - or this one - window.

I think you can also see the effects in the preview window - no period after that one.

Here goes...

Its kinda obvious no? ze dong is penis in german

Ok so will it do it with any other friendly communist leaders?

Fidel Castro
Pol Pot
Gough Whitlam
Joseph Sarlin
John Lennon

???

Ok, maybe its a coloured book thing?

Muammar Gaddafi

???

nevermind

It breaks up the word "dongle" too. Not sure why.

eta: if I refresh the screen over and over, dongle will have spaces sometimes and sometimes not.

Really odd.