It's no bug, it's a feature!

Asphira was able to create a thread 5 minutes after you posted.

great :P

I guess giving a shout out to the recently passed comedic icon Jerry Lewis is going to have to wait

No post will go through if it contains the digit 9 followed by a 1. Even if they are part of a larger word or a link.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gogs_way_of_combatting_spam

EDIT: As of now, this has been fixed. "91" can go through, however "+" followed by "91" can't.

So do we have to come up with 9[url=][/url]1 ways to get around that now?

does that work for [url=https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post17291]links[/url] as well?
// nope

J̶u̶d̶g̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶s̶k̶e̶l̶e̶t̶o̶n̶b̶o̶w̶'̶s̶ ̶p̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶#̶1̶0̶2̶4̶,̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶i̶s̶s̶u̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶e̶q̶u̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶ ̶l̶a̶r̶g̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶l̶p̶h̶a̶n̶u̶m̶e̶r̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶

Still, GOG's way of fighting spam-posts with phone numbers in them is beyond lazy and ridiculous. Congrats to whoever came up with this bright idea, and to the one who approved it as a viable solution.

EDIT: Should have known there's a trick in there. Still stand by the rest of my post, though.

91, 9[i][/i]19, or 9,191 if necessary! :P

It was just brought to my attention in another thread, so amended my post accordingly; cheers.

Blah, there are better tricks than that, it turns out we don't need

(double-blah, the trick I was attempting got lopped off by the forum software also LOL)

We don't need what? (oh, I just saw your edit :P)


PS: I wonder what's special about the italics tag...

How about this?


EDIT: Nope.

I was attempting to directly use unicode code points U+1D7EB and U+1D7E3 to represent ninety-one, but that is outside of the UTF-8 range IIRC, so I tried another 2 codepoints within the first 64k which should be valid - U+FF19 and U+FF11 but the forum software lopped off from that point to the end of my sentence so no dice. :)

Too bad, it would have not had anything visibly hidden when quoting in a reply. :)

Was trying that too.

Ouch, that hurts! So it also matched to post numbers in replies. Now I know why the forum did not let me reply to this post for hours, because it has been post number 191...