A little while ago, my mom posted a prayer on a forum. When she went to view it again later, someone had replaced the word "merciful" with number signs (########). What does that mean? She thought maybe someone felt it was inappropriate to put a prayer on a public forum, but why would they choose to cover up that one word? Do you have any idea why this may have happened?
2007-01-18 05:50:23 · 3 answers · asked by kid_at_heart 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
That might be exactly what happened, who knows now days. However, it might have been a database error. Not anything you guys did. When your mom hit the "ok" button, the website converts her text to HTML format, and there might have been an error with one of the database tables. For example, go into microsoft excel, and type in a long number in one of the cells. The ####### will appear because there is not enough room in the cell for it. However, if you make the cell bigger, the number will show up. something similiar to this might have happened. Its nothing you guys did, just a bug.
2007-01-18 05:55:43 · answer #1 · answered by pda_tech_guy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
which site was it...some forums let you post and then a script goes back later to filter out bad words *swearing and such* and sometimes ordinary words get filtered out...usually a bug in the code...try posting on another thread with merciful and maybe mispelled something like mericful or something...
although it is possable...depending on the forum...it's unlikely it was done because someone thinks it's inappropriate and usually users can't edit forum posts from other users...
2007-01-18 06:01:32 · answer #2 · answered by viking_nm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either the person who posted meant to say something offensive and the person chose to use ###### instead of saying profanities or maybe the forum master chose to block it out. Maybe the person who posted it was writing something accidently pressed on that button mutiple times and didn't bother to correct himself/herself, or maybe the person was trying to make a statement about the prayer itself.
2007-01-18 05:58:57 · answer #3 · answered by porselin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋