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Problem inserting links
Not seen this before, error when inserting a link, to Microsoft support articles and discussions here, I get an error, happened a few times today (annoying!)
Anyone else seeing this...
- Hi all,
Thanks for reporting, this was caused by some extra filtering on number strings due to a large number of spam posts coming in with phone numbers in them.
Unfortunately this has he side effect of preventing posting legitimate posts that have matching number strings in them. If we changed the regex to only prevent posts that were in the format of n(nnn)-nnn-nnnn then spammers would just not post in that format.
I am keeping it under review and may well turn off the block again in the mean time my advice would be to avoid posting strings of numbers if at all possible.
If I may ask Allen, are these controls being put back in place? I'd rather they were personally if it helps with what we are seeing at the moment with persistent spammers on the front page. I don't even get how the spammers profit from this. Hope you get a good middle ground if possible! Thanks for your work on this, it must be infuriating.
Yes, they are still on... annoying :) And spammers seems to have adapted to the filter by inserting random characters in between.
- Allen
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