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So...I'm in a discussion on another thread.

I receive a warning about inappropriate comments, which I find to be unreasonable, but I know it's a bot so I figure it's just some odd trigger.

Then a second one.  Then a third one.  Well...I'm getting annoyed at this point so I put in a ticket about it.  The response from the moderator tells me the words I used were:

OK, actually, I won't type them here.  Not even in cleaned up form.  And I didn't type them before.  And they weren't even in the comments I quoted either, unless possibly in an intentionally hidden font.

There seems to be some major problem with the detection bot, or with an exploit of some kind, if this result can even be possible.

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Swamp_Varmint wrote:

So...I'm in a discussion on another thread.

I receive a warning about inappropriate comments, which I find to be unreasonable, but I know it's a bot so I figure it's just some odd trigger.

Then a second one. Then a third one. Well...I'm getting annoyed at this point so I put in a ticket about it. The response from the moderator tells me the words I used were:

OK, actually, I won't type them here. Not even in cleaned up form. And I didn't type them before. And they weren't even in the comments I quoted either, unless possibly in an intentionally hidden font.

There seems to be some major problem with the detection bot, or with an exploit of some kind, if this result can even be possible.

You quoted a post with the term. Unfortunately, the apps don't filter the same as the website currently, do you have to be careful when quoting.

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Martin_Stahl wrote:
Swamp_Varmint wrote:

So...I'm in a discussion on another thread.

I receive a warning about inappropriate comments, which I find to be unreasonable, but I know it's a bot so I figure it's just some odd trigger.

Then a second one. Then a third one. Well...I'm getting annoyed at this point so I put in a ticket about it. The response from the moderator tells me the words I used were:

OK, actually, I won't type them here. Not even in cleaned up form. And I didn't type them before. And they weren't even in the comments I quoted either, unless possibly in an intentionally hidden font.

There seems to be some major problem with the detection bot, or with an exploit of some kind, if this result can even be possible.

You quoted a post with the term. Unfortunately, the apps don't filter the same as the website currently, do you have to be careful when quoting.

They were some pretty egregious words. I would not have even quoted them. Unless they were somehow hidden (like invisible font), on purpose, to generate this situation.

I am pretty steamed about this.

Edit: Thanks for replying, by the way.

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Hey, me again.

I do now notice, in at least one of the posts I replied to, there is [removed] in two places. I'm not sure what is removed, and I'm not sure who removed it. If there was a curse word, and if it was allowed to be posted, and if it was somehow auto-deleted by a bot (this seems a reasonable working theory) am I still somehow being blamed for quoting it (a word that I didn't even see)?

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In the interest of time and sanity, and after some discussion with Martin_Stahl, I am going to accept these words were in the text I quoted.

I don't recall them, but I've been wrong before (and as recently as last year, too).

Everyone please have a lovely day.