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Imagine what happens when someone names their content folder 'assets' and it gets rewritten to 'a<star><star>ets'.

(edit: why does double * get escaped away on here.)




My favourite stupid auto-sanitisation is "consbreastutional"


Also known as the clbuttic mistake.


This was years ago, but I remember I was unable to test one of our vendor API calls locally because it had to hit something like api.association-of-commercial-something-or-others.com... turns out the corporate filter didn't like the word "ass".


>(edit: why does double * get escaped away on here.)

* text * italicizes, like so: text.

(Putting spaces around the * avoids this behaviour).


Markdown parser turning your emphasis into <strong>




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