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Censorship on Spark People

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

I am getting FED UP with writing Spark mails & posts that take me a LONG TIME to TYPE, only to have them come back to me with the message:
PLEASE REMOVE HTML!
There is NO FOUL LANGUAGE in these posts, so WHAT IS THE PROBLEM???????
This has JUST started to happen recently.
I have been on SP for over 5 yrs & NEVER had this problem; & my posts are the same general content.
Has anyone ELSE had this problem lately??????
It is TRULY ANNOYING!!!!!!!!
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  • MDIX91
    Actually, is is about the use of punctuation. It will not take some of them and all you need to do is remove the characters...really.
    1559 days ago
  • ZOOMZOOM1231
    I think ALL others have said it the only thing it could be to is the community rules???
    2089 days ago
  • CJBAGGINS
    To shed some light, html, as others have posted, that comment is not about whether you are using foul language or not, it is one way that the site understands what you wish it to do - ie. make a picture, underline, make a link, etc.

    Some characters that we may wish to use (an asterix, greater than or less than symbol, etc.), are used in html, so the site gets confused, and doesn't know what you wish it to do.

    I run into this problem when I try to post the * in my emails. It thinks I want it to do something other than post a *.

    (I'll see if it lets me post this comment, with those in there, or not)

    When you get the message, go back to your message and see if you have put any symbols like stars, greater or less than symbols, etc.

    Hope that helps!

    cj


    2606 days ago
  • no profile photo CD14253479
    HTML is not about language. It has to do with off site pictures etc. contact a team leader about this problem.
    2606 days ago
  • SANDISOCAROLINA
    I've noticed it a couple of times with emoticons, so I'd delete the emoticon and re-select it again and then it works, don't know why. It was unnerving to say the least, since like you, I knew I wasn't using foul language etc.
    2607 days ago
  • MILLER-S
    Here's the definition of html

    "Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages."

    I could be way off base, as I'm not that computer savvy, but make sure you aren't using any computer language code like "greater than" symbols, etc.
    2607 days ago
  • 1CRAZYDOG
    Yes, and to say it's annoying is a HUGE understatement. It is usually when a character is used rather than an word. For example, using the greater than or less than symbol always results in that message. Go figure!


    2607 days ago

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