# Has anyone else discovered this interesting trick/glitch?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-else-discovered-this-interesting-trick-glitch/42041
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [5. April 2016 um 04:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-else-discovered-this-interesting-trick-glitch/42041 "2016-04-05T04:35:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![EJGamerCake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ejgamercake/32/53498_2.png) [@EJGamerCake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EJGamerCake)
#### Post date: [5. April 2016 um 04:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-else-discovered-this-interesting-trick-glitch/42041/1 "2016-04-05T04:35:36Z")

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I’m not sure if I’m the first one to discover this glitch, but I find it very interesting, as it allows you to create posts that appear to have less than 20 characters, unblock censored words (I’m from the hopscotch forum), and other neat tricks, like this: :D

Another example is a blank post, which I can demonstrate below. (Quote to see how)

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### Author: ![EJGamerCake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ejgamercake/32/53498_2.png) [@EJGamerCake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EJGamerCake)
#### Post date: [5. April 2016 um 04:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-else-discovered-this-interesting-trick-glitch/42041/2 "2016-04-05T04:36:03Z")

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\<this is my trick I wanted to show you

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5. April 2016 um 04:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-else-discovered-this-interesting-trick-glitch/42041/3 "2016-04-05T04:58:42Z")

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Yes, the miracles of Unicode. This is expected and as designed, please search for duplicate topics on the matter.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5. April 2016 um 04:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-else-discovered-this-interesting-trick-glitch/42041/4 "2016-04-05T04:58:50Z")

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