unable to add gratefuldead as tag August 10, 2005 11:12 AM   Subscribe

Strange problem adding tags to a post in the blue.
posted by grateful to Bugs at 11:12 AM (7 comments total)

The Blue hangs when I try to add “gratefuldead” to http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/44146. I can add (and delete) other tags without a problem.
posted by grateful at 11:13 AM on August 10, 2005


weird, worked fine for me.

oh damn, I see the problem -- I put in code to block tags with a user's own username in them, and grateful is in yours. heh.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:36 PM on August 10, 2005


Works for quonsar, I guess...
posted by grateful at 12:36 PM on August 10, 2005


Why did you do that, mat?

posted by plinth at 10:07 PM PST on August 10 [!]




Probably to keep people from spoofing other posts.


posted by mathowie at 10:08 PM PST on August 10 [!]



That looks like the reason, since I tried to spoof mat and it stripped out a few choice tags, notably the <div> and <span> tags.
posted by plinth at 7:21 PM on August 10, 2005


Not meaning to mess with things too badly. I had tried this several years ago and successfully spoofed CrazyUncleJoe. Glad to see that's been closed.
posted by plinth at 7:32 PM on August 10, 2005


PS I love you, mat.
posted by plinth at 7:32 PM on August 10, 2005


I totally understand the need for the code to block tags containing a user's own username, but wasn't there a metatalk thread a few years ago showing a correlation between usernames and thread topics? I did a half-hearted search and couldn't find it, but the general consensus was that stavrosthewonderchicken tends to post about chickeny things, while five fresh fish gravitates towards, uh, fishier topics.
posted by grateful at 8:07 AM on August 11, 2005


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