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Q: Preventing Zalgo text from spanning outside the box

AnonymousWhen an extraneous amount of Zalgo text is posted, it will span outside the box and prevent others from seeing the posts above/below it. Zalgo text should be contained inside the box so that it doesn't cover up anything else, such as the flag button; it should never be difficult to flag a post a...

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Anonymous
Anonymous
Where did all of the comments go?
@41686d6564 Strange, some of them were very relevant to this post and important to understanding it.
@Ollie This would make it harder to flag a post posted elsewhere, and it shouldn't be difficult to flag something.
@Nai54 Of a spam post being flagged? How can I do that? There's no way to know how many times people had difficulty with this.
@Ollie No, I can't view deleted posts.
@Ollie Not if it's redacted.
 
Mast
Mast
Is Zalgo ever redacted?
 
Anonymous
Anonymous
@Mast Why wouldn't it be? It would make the edit history less confusing and more readable.
 
Mast
Mast
That's not the purpose of redactions. Redactions are for sensitive information we really don't want to stay visible in an edit history, like personal information and other things that can get either the company or users in legal trouble.
Did you note that the Zalgo text can be clicked through?
 
Anonymous
Anonymous
@Mast But not seen through, you'd have to guess where the right buttons are. With comments, you could even flag the wrong one.
 
Mast
Mast
5:58 PM
Hardly. Once you've clicked it a hundred times, you know it by rote. But I can understand fresher users having trouble with it, sure.
 
Anonymous
Anonymous
@Mast There might not be a way to tell which comment is the one with Zalgo, you might accidentally flag the one under or above it.
 

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