Hey everyone,
I’m not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but either way it seems pretty problematic. Basically, even when a post is hidden and flagged by the community, it’s still perfectly visible in the raw url, and this doesn’t resolve after some period of time. Only deleted and approved flagged posts don’t show up in the raw. To me, this seems like a bit of an oversight but again, it could have some practical purpose that I’m not aware of.
Yeah I’m a regular (non-staff), but that’s weird. It works fine on my site. Let me show you some screenshots.
Uh this is from your site (I don’t unicycle so I’m not logged in lol). https://unicyclist.com/raw/282458
If a post was flagged on there and was not dealt with (post hidden by community flags message) it would show up normally in the raw.
Ooh I see what you mean. When loading the topic’s url (not the post url) , the hidden post’s content is visible on the post stream. I get it, and you’re right.
Alright. But sometimes the content is hidden for a reason, I mean if community flags hide something it’s usually to protect other users from seeing it. This is a way around that, although I do doubt it matters much because I’m pretty sure most forum users aren’t even aware of the raw urls in the first place. Just seemed like something worth reporting.
But was this an intentional feature, or just a sort of side effect?
What do you use the raw URL for? I didn’t know it was there and am wondering what is your use case? I guess then it should be compared to the original use case of the raw URL and then it can be judged whether it is a bug or a feature.
Uh I used to look at it to see what kind of < heytwentycharacterlimit > things users were posting, and also to see more specific date and time information, and then I realized it let you see hidden content which was and still is pretty useful.
