Timeline for It's possible to create empty content fields - particularly question titles and bodies - on sites
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| Oct 8 at 19:17 | comment | added | Kyle Pollard StaffMod | @ShadowWizard This has been fixed since September 2022 and got updated in the tracking table but this answer didn't get updated. You shouldn't be able to make empty questions anymore. | |
| Oct 7 at 21:33 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Yeah, now that the bug is allegedly fixed, can the method previously used to exploit it be publicly disclosed? | |
| Oct 7 at 19:47 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @KylePollard can you please explain what exactly is completed? I prefer not to test in order to see. | |
| Oct 7 at 17:59 | history | edited | Kyle PollardStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 31 characters in body
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| Jan 29, 2021 at 16:33 | comment | added | user688097 | LOL, this is so funny. | |
| S Jan 8, 2021 at 7:08 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add missing word
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| S Jan 8, 2021 at 7:08 | history | suggested | Sabito | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added a link to the answer instead of a relative position.
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| S Jan 7, 2021 at 17:04 | history | edited | scohe001 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
make clearer
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| S Jan 7, 2021 at 17:04 | history | suggested | new Q Open Wid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
make clearer
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| Jan 7, 2021 at 15:20 | comment | added | Shog9 | Stripping leading/trailing spaces (including zws, zwj, etc) was routinely done on submission for years, @ben. It led to some other obscure bugs, so I'm guessing someone fixed them by moving the check without considering the implications. | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 11:53 | comment | added | ben is uǝq backwards | The length could be different for different fields @Larnu, but you're right about the spaces having a length. You'd have to replace them first before performing the length which would make longer strings (i.e. posts) a real pain at scale. | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 10:54 | comment | added | Larnu |
@benisuǝqbackwards a zero width unicode character has a value of 2 for datalength, so 50 of them, and done. But that would also force users to post comments that are 50 characters long. That is far from desired.
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| Jan 7, 2021 at 10:50 | comment | added | ben is uǝq backwards |
It's not a real pain to stop people doing this @Larnu alter table Posts add constraint ChkPostBodyLength check (datalength(body) > 100); (repeat for all fields with user input text).
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| Jan 7, 2021 at 5:33 | comment | added | Sebastian Simon | “if you are using Chrome” — Works in Firefox, too, at least using Nightly 86.0a1. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 23:09 | comment | added | Temani Afif | @GertArnold why waiting for moderation intervention when we can prevent this from happening? Few more tests on the content should do it. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 23:06 | comment | added | Gert Arnold | Don't focus too much on visibility. Although the content isn't visible, it's clearly visible that (on the main sites) this would be deliberate malpractice, making it not different than any other malpractice, which community moderation is perfectly capable of dealing with. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 22:29 | history | edited | Temani Afif | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 23 characters in body
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 22:15 | history | edited | Temani Afif | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 24 characters in body
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| S Jan 6, 2021 at 22:14 | history | suggested | 10 Rep | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clearly is the wrong word :D
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 22:01 | history | edited | Temani Afif | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 2 characters in body
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 21:55 | history | edited | Temani Afif | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 95 characters in body
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 21:52 | history | migrated | from meta.stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Jan 6, 2021 at 21:36 | comment | added | Larnu | That is the stuff of nightmares. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 21:35 | comment | added | Temani Afif | @Larnu and using blank usernames ;) | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 21:33 | comment | added | Larnu | I can see this is going to be a real pain to stop people doing this, but also I suspect that it's going to be unlikely be abused. If anything, if someone does this with malicious intent they'll likely just going to get stern words from the mods. Though, I won't lie, the whole thing is really amusing. It would be even better if we'd all lumped in to post "blank" comments and answers. ;) | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 21:27 | history | answered | Temani Afif | CC BY-SA 4.0 |