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§ ita § - Apr 14, 2014 6:00:00 am PDT #23784 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That's your browser probably saving the last thing you typed in that field to save you retyping. Is there a javascript way to talk to the browser and tell it not to?


amych - Apr 14, 2014 6:11:53 am PDT #23785 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

meara, I'm seeing it too, only since last night and only on b.org. It's not the usual saved form field behavior, because it's always the same post, not the last one.

(Also, for me, it's a post from the discussion of horrible dog killings so disturbing on top of being weird browser behavior!)


§ ita § - Apr 14, 2014 6:22:37 am PDT #23786 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is it a post you posted, or backed out of? And what browser?


amych - Apr 14, 2014 6:26:56 am PDT #23787 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Posted, and Chrome/Mac


§ ita § - Apr 14, 2014 6:28:48 am PDT #23788 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I too am using Chrome/Mac, and I haven't seen anything. I am blank on suggestions.


meara - Apr 14, 2014 6:46:46 am PDT #23789 of 25496

Yep, Chrome/Mac here. And keeps doing last night's post, rather than any of the ones I've typed today. Very weird.


amych - Apr 14, 2014 6:48:07 am PDT #23790 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Stand down the alarms. I just ran into the same thing on Facebook. Thinking it's a chrome thing going back to the latest update.


meara - Apr 14, 2014 6:49:49 am PDT #23791 of 25496

Oh even weirder--in FB it doesn't automatically fill out my post from last night...but if I click in the thing to post, it THEN fills (with b.org it's just auto-filled)


amych - Apr 14, 2014 6:56:20 am PDT #23792 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I assumed that was because Facebook doesn't generate a real textbox until you click into the status box thingie (because Facebook, as far as I can tell). I could be just guessing on that one, though.


meara - Apr 14, 2014 10:20:12 am PDT #23793 of 25496

Have you figured out how to fix it? It's continuing to freak me out, and also annoy--it over-wrote two things I posted on FB with last night's status! (Which thankfully wasn't anything too weird, but still)