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While looking at a close review item, this looked rather weird:

So I took a look at it on the question, and it didn't look the same:

Here's the edit page:

Is this a bug?

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closed as off-topic by Qantas 94 Heavy, Martijn Pieters, psubsee2003, hims056, Adam Lear♦ Nov 3 '13 at 17:20

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    That looks like something's thrown MathJax into the review page. – michaelb958 Nov 3 '13 at 0:33
  • Can you link to the review? Also, do you have any LaTeX-rendering plugins? – Aza Nov 3 '13 at 0:41
  • Hmm, no-repro now, sucks. stackoverflow.com/review/close/3201006 – Qantas 94 Heavy Nov 3 '13 at 0:42
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    LaTeX broke the suspension tool for a bit, too. :D – Ry- Nov 3 '13 at 1:42
  • @minitech: you mods really enjoy stamping on littluns, don't you? – Qantas 94 Heavy Nov 3 '13 at 4:04
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    @Anna nice tag but make it mod-only so it won't get removed by mistake. ;) – Shadow Wizard Nov 3 '13 at 8:28
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Nick Craver was testing MathJax performance for an answer to a request for MathJax to be enabled on Stack Overflow. It looks like you stumbled into an edit that inadvertently triggered MathJax to typeset an equation.

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    Oops...sorry :( – Nick Craver♦ Nov 3 '13 at 1:53
  • @Nick so how is the performance? :) – Shadow Wizard Nov 3 '13 at 8:29
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    But Nick wrote even when "it's not doing anything" ;-) – Arjan Nov 3 '13 at 9:11

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