# Freaky page formatting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-page-formatting/244193>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 8, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-page-formatting/244193 "2004-05-08T16:50:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-page-formatting/244193/1 "2004-05-08T16:50:42Z")

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I assume this is just a board glitch, but isn’t [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=255165) a little weird? I use the regular boad setting (not the threaded views or anything) and this is the first time I’ve ever seen this. Very strange.

Just thought I’d point it out. Has this happened before?

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-page-formatting/244193/2 "2004-05-08T16:52:54Z")

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Oddly, the thread looks normal in the reply screen, except that Starguard’s quote is all squished to the left. Weird.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-page-formatting/244193/3 "2004-05-08T16:59:17Z")

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Ha ha somone broke the SDMB.

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-page-formatting/244193/4 "2004-05-08T17:50:31Z")

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I was just about to start this very thread…

Damn weird. When I click on “Edit Post”, same as you would see with “Quote Reply”, all I see that’s not-normal is a url in a url linking. But other than that, nothing out of the ordinary.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaky-page-formatting/244193/5 "2004-05-08T20:05:10Z")

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It appears as if things went wrong just before the url code. if you quote the message (done by clicking the ‘#2’ to get the post on it’s own) the stuff in his quote goes (normal for quoting a quote) but the link, which is within the quote, remains.

So maybe there’s some character _in_ the link somewhere that has knocked a hamster off his chair.