Certain characters and groups of characters get replaced with "$$Anonymous$$"

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If I type the word tea or K in the forum it will replace it with $$anonymous$$

I think it only works with replies.

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tea K or not

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It’s retroactive, as well, and in Unity Answers. I’ve noticed that years-old comments of mine in UA have rare garbage $$anonymous$$ in them, and I know they were fine when I wrote them. Do UA and Forums even use the same system?

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tea K or not?

Keto?

OP has these two posts, how do they know how thread replies they write show up?

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I see that too. It’s really weird. “Instead” becomes “ins$$anonymous$$d”.

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Chiming in here because I’ve been running into this, too. Just noticed it over the past couple of days. I’ve seen it for capital K and capital M, as well as the string “tea” as stated above.

In fact, if you search in Google for answers.unity.com “$$anonymous$$” it will give you loads of results, including this thread, strangely enough.

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Can also confirm this, very weird.

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Is there a fix for this or somewhere to post it as an official bug needing a fix?

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I’ve stumbled upon posts from ~2014 with “$$anonymous$$” instead of “m”.

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Apparently the letter “m” is replaced with $$anonymous$$ on old replies.

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Search Google with the following, and you’ll get about 64,300 results all containing “$$anonymous$$”.

  • site:unity3d.com “$$anonymous$$”

The oldest posts and comments that I found with the issue date back to October 2009, such as this one: Can I use UnityGUI to make a 3D GUI? - Questions & Answers - Unity Discussions

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This is a recent issue. Very annoying, I am looking at a comment I made myself in a reply to a problem I was having, and back then I was very thankful. Now, the same comment is very difficult to read.

But editing my comment shows all the text is the same as original. Weird.

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Yeah this is starting to drive me nuts too. I wonder if its the hacker group anonymous. Because why else would random posts be screwed up.

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Glad to know it’s not just me seeing this very annoying behavior. Can someone responsible for the Unity Forum chime in here?

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Absolutely :slight_smile: yeah, it’s something on our radar for a while now and something I have asked our Webteam interally to look at and update me on.

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any news?

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With Unity Answers, where this issue also occurs, the problem was that it was run by a 3rd party. For any change or problem the Unity3D person had to request something from them which they may or may not understand and may or mat not do. And it was a lengthy process either way.

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blank answers…

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But that seems like a simple database problem. They grab all the headings and metadata from one table, then try to grab to contents, which is stored elsewhere, and fail. It’s also just a Unity Answers problem. The weird thing about $$anonymous$$ is it affects Forums and UA, which makes no sense (different providers, last I heard) and seems like a buggy feature, not just a glitch.

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Still no progression? It is more then half of a year and I still stumble over this annoying issue a lot. That is quite embarrassing.

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