Gabriel Torres Posted April 20, 2022 Posted April 20, 2022 Hi, Today we came across a very weird behavior. We turned off copying and pasting of rich text (Paste Behavior: Always paste as plain text), yet one user was able to post the particular rich text I reproduce below both in the title and in the post itself. I have no clue on how this particular string is being able to bypass this setting. Note: I disabled all apps and plugins, disabled CloudFlare, and used the default, unmodifed theme, at no avail. 𝙌𝙐𝘼𝙇 𝙁𝙊𝙉𝙏𝙀 𝙎𝙀𝙍𝙄𝘼 𝘼 𝙈𝙀𝙇𝙃𝙊𝙍 𝙊𝙋𝘾̧𝘼̃𝙊? Could you please test and let us know why/how this string is being able to bypass the setting? Thanks.
Solution opentype Posted April 20, 2022 Solution Posted April 20, 2022 There is no styling applied. Those are mathematical characters, which are meant to be displayed like that. Just like you can post emoji without requiring styling. Gabriel Torres 1
Marc Posted April 20, 2022 Posted April 20, 2022 Not arguing with a man who is literally nicknamed after a font format 🙂 Matt, Gabriel Torres and Jim M 3
Gabriel Torres Posted April 20, 2022 Author Posted April 20, 2022 @Marc Stridgen Is there a way to block/prevent these?
Marc Posted April 20, 2022 Posted April 20, 2022 The only way to do that would be to use the word filters to block posts on each of those individual characters, using loose matching. Of course a painstaking process, but that is the only way you would be able to do so at present Gabriel Torres 1
opentype Posted April 20, 2022 Posted April 20, 2022 (edited) There are dozens of types of these “effects”. 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯, 𝒮𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓉, 𝔻𝕠𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕖-𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕜, Ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓓ, uʍop-ǝpısd∩ … If you really want to ban it, make it part of your rules, just as you would with questionable content. Not everything can be prevented through technical measures. Edited April 20, 2022 by opentype Sonya* and Gabriel Torres 2
Gabriel Torres Posted April 20, 2022 Author Posted April 20, 2022 @Marc Stridgen @opentype Good Lord. Well, I guess I will have to leave this as a suggestion for a future release, it is virtually impossible for me to add all characters and variations manually.
Jim M Posted April 20, 2022 Posted April 20, 2022 You're welcome to add this in our official Feature Suggestion but as OpenType mentioned, there are a lot of these characters. If they are spelling out something you do not allow or overall something you do not want to allow, it may just come down to your terms of service and moderation. Gabriel Torres 1
Sonya* Posted April 22, 2022 Posted April 22, 2022 @Gabriel Torres, just found some fancy extensions how people can do it https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/fonts generator😉 So, it will be difficult to prevent them to use it. Gabriel Torres 1
Gabriel Torres Posted April 22, 2022 Author Posted April 22, 2022 Hi @Sonya*. Thanks! 🙂 We were wondering which software people use to do that, as we've seen theses characters being used in apps such as Instagram. As Jim suggested above, we had already an item in our terms & conditions that said we don't allow this, so it is just a an extra work to our moderators to monitor, fix the posts, and warn members.
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