Semi-OT: Strange behaviour of the letter "L"

Strategia_In_Ultima · #1 February 7th, 2005, 12:27 PM

What I'm talking about:

I was browsing older posts on one of the threads, and came along one of my old posts. It said "bLaster" there TWICE while I am CERTAIN I did NOT capitalize the "L" myself. I checked another thread... yup. I spotted it again in some posts, all NOT mine. And ONLY the SECOND letter of a word, never another one. Always the SECOND. I figured something was wrong. At least three people capitalizing their "L"s as the second letter? That's impossible. Again, I am absolutely CERTAIN I wrote "blaster" and NOT "bLaster". DEFINITELY not twice. And others as well? I thought something might be wrong with the server or something. That;s why I posted this.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #2 February 13th, 2005, 05:42 PM

Oh. Well then, no forum error.

And it is NOT tape. It is an actual image.

Fyron · #3 February 13th, 2005, 05:45 PM

That's the point... Firebird is an old version of Firefox. It has bugs that were fixed in later releases. Whomever's computer that is really, really needs to update it...

Alneyan · #4 February 13th, 2005, 06:38 PM

Breaking news! Another occurrence of the bL phenomenon was witnessed by our investigating teams. Story follows.

In this post, blasted has been written as "bLasted", which seems fairly odd. There is another L in R'lyeh, but this may be an unrelated matter.

This post is fairly odd, from before the forum upgrade, which would support Will's theory about it being a prank. Hmm... Both times, the word in question began with "bL". Perhaps it is something with bL, or even "bLast"?

Several occurrences of "bLast" in old threads (before the last forum upgrade) were detected. Oddly enough, in these occurrences "bLast" only appears in the subjects, and not in the posts themselves. It seems that *all* such threads have "bLast" instead of blast, even threads following the last forum upgrade. Hmm, it smells of a conspiracy... Connecting too many dots? Who, moi?

Fyron · #5 February 13th, 2005, 07:04 PM

Blast blast blast.

My blasts come out just fine.

Alneyan · #6 February 13th, 2005, 07:09 PM

As I wrote, most occurrences are only in the subjects, not in the posts themselves. I think only two occurrences of bLast within the posts were found, both before the last forum upgrade.

Hmm, I will try changing a topic name to include bLast, just for the sake of curiosity. Didn't work. It looks like though that the only "bLast" after the forum upgrade I noticed was actually in a pre-upgrade thread.

Examples of subjects with bLast in it: here , here , here , and here.

Fyron · #7 February 13th, 2005, 07:42 PM

Testing subject... New posts have no conspiracy nut issues.

Alneyan · #8 February 15th, 2005, 06:54 AM

Quote:

Alneyan said:
Examples of subjects with bLast in it: here , here , here , and here.

In this post, blasted has been written as "bLasted", which seems fairly odd. There is another L in R'lyeh, but this may be an unrelated matter.

Hurrah for self-quoting! All the threads are before the forum upgrade, and the problem no longer occurs after the upgrade. Besides, it looks like subject names are much more likely to be affected by it, as evidenced by the number of "bLasts" in subject names. Feel free to search for blast in the whole forums Puke, while only looking at subject names.

Of course, it isn't exactly a world-shattering matter, but hey... A man's got to have some hobbies.