# Yet another test post (Sorry)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-test-post-sorry/351514>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 6, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-test-post-sorry/351514 "2006-04-06T02:06:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-test-post-sorry/351514/1 "2006-04-06T02:06:33Z")

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Hopefully [ this will work.  
Hopefully _this_[will work.  
Hopefully this **will** [work.  
Hopefully this will work.

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**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-test-post-sorry/351514/2 "2006-04-06T02:08:00Z")

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Curses. Could some helpful mods delete this thread and the other two? I don’t want to clutter up ATMB.

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**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-test-post-sorry/351514/3 "2006-04-06T02:57:39Z")

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I figured out the super-rad secret of your other two posts, but I’ve just gotta know, what were you testing with this post?

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**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-test-post-sorry/351514/4 "2006-04-06T03:03:54Z")

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Ahh, just noticed the hidden square brackets. I’m guessing you wanted the preview to say “hopefully this will work” just once, but the tags to hide those brackets interfered with their l33tness or something.

Have I just given away your special super secret?

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**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-test-post-sorry/351514/5 "2006-04-06T03:08:58Z")

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> [@Mbossa](#):
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> Have I just given away your special super secret?

Yes, damn you! 😛

Seriously though, it’s just something I noticed had happened in another thread due to a typo, and I wondered what exactly makes it work. I think it’s the colour tags that stopped it working - the open bracket being next to an alphanumeric character is fine, but against punctuation or other brackets it won’t. It deletes everything from going on the preview between the open bracket and the next tagged word, but continues as normal after that, unless you put in another open bracket.