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May 17, 2006 2:43 PM

When posting to AskMe, I get the message: "Your comment appears to be blank, go back and try again."

It's not blank, and it happens even if I preview first.
posted by oaf to Bugs at 2:43 PM (8 comments total)

Let's see if I can post comments in MetaTalk. If you can see this, the answer is obviously yes.
posted by oaf at 2:45 PM on May 17, 2006 [1 favorite]

hmm. try logging out and back in, and if it persists, lemme know what browser/OS you are using to access the site.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:50 PM on May 17, 2006

also, the content of the comment might have something to do with it. I kick out obvious attempts at trying to spoof another user/comment.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:50 PM on May 17, 2006

Ah, that might be it. I'm basically quoting someone's comment. Let me try messing around with it a bit.
posted by oaf at 2:52 PM on May 17, 2006

Yep, that fixed it. Sorry about that.
posted by oaf at 2:53 PM on May 17, 2006

Got the same thing earlier, during the anonythread. (It's so easy to break that keeping it seems silly, Matt. I added an extra space in the href zomg!)
posted by cortex at 3:25 PM on May 17, 2006

Maybe I shouldn't piggyback here, but.. While I was preparing my bicycle question today, I noticed a bug in the question preview screen.

The blockquote and strong tags I was using didn't work until the first closed blockquote. After the first the tags were working properly, but I think it was all shifted to the left by one tab stop from where it should have been. I added

at the start of my comment, to make sure that the formatting wouldn't be borked when it was actually posted. Firefox 1.0.7 in XP SP2, if that matters.
posted by Chuckles at 1:01 AM on May 18, 2006

Argh... why didn't that work? (I didn't preview)

It should have been:

Maybe I shouldn't piggyback here, but.. While I was preparing my bicycle question today, I noticed a bug in the question preview screen.

The blockquote and strong tags I was using didn't work until the first closed blockquote. After the first the [/blockquote] tags were working properly, but I think it was all shifted to the left by one tab stop from where it should have been. I added [blockquote][/blockquote] at the start of my comment, to make sure that the formatting wouldn't be borked when it was actually posted. Firefox 1.0.7 in XP SP2, if that matters.

posted by Chuckles at 1:03 AM on May 18, 2006