Spoiler alert

March 20, 2005 3:26 PM

Eek, I tried to name this thread The ending of "The Good Thief" and the AskMe RSS feed truncated it before my first double-quote which means people will click it and be spoiled! O please, please fix it!
posted by nicwolff to Bugs at 3:26 PM (6 comments total)

And I guess I'm reporting the underlying form-handling bug too...
posted by nicwolff at 3:31 PM on March 20, 2005

fixed this on all new posts, on both ask mefi and mefi
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:08 PM on March 20, 2005

The quotes screw up headlines. It's been noted before...somewhere...
posted by graventy at 4:10 PM on March 20, 2005

It's not fixed in Firefox (Mac).
posted by amberglow at 4:12 PM on March 20, 2005

amberglow, try and create a new post with some quotation marks in it. On the preview page, they should still be there. That means it worked.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:18 PM on March 20, 2005

Cool. Thanks for fixing that, Matt.
posted by mediareport at 1:44 PM on March 21, 2005