vreihen16 wrote

I was typing a message earlier today, and started to try and tag someone in the editor by typing the at sign and then one letter. The pick list for potential users came up with several user names in strange character sets among the valid users. Are these a result of a database character set change that's in progress for BP Web V2.0, or the results of international SEO spambots creating throwaway accounts?

A few random tagged examples:

å¦âçÆËç«å¦âæ ¢æ°´

I like BMW ðŸââ¦

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apptest wrote

For now I’m going to say bots since they registered have 0 posts and haven’t really visited since

vreihen16 wrote

apptest wrote

For now I’m going to say bots since they registered have 0 posts and haven’t really visited since

Those were just three random examples. Look at the list of suggested users below when I type a single at sign into the post editor, where I ASSume the character coding makes them alphabetically come up first in the pick list.

If you have SQL access and can wildcard search for a single character in a user name like "%Â%", I'll estimate the over/under at 2,500 accounts with this strange encoding based on the few one-character tag searches that I've randomly tried.....




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