It was in a multiline code block, so it just had a tonne of horizontal scroll. S...

hinkley · on July 21, 2016

If he had used tabs instead of spaces this wouldn't have been a problem.

scrollaway · on July 21, 2016

Or at the very least, trim whitespace on save :)

skeletonjelly · on July 20, 2016

Still hasn't killed as many characters as GRRM

skeletonjelly · on July 20, 2016

Good find! Where did you see this? Or was it in the comments via Nick Craver?

OJFord · on July 21, 2016

The article said:

    > The malformed post contained roughly 20,000 consecutive
    > characters of whitespace on a comment line that started
    > with -- play happy sound for player to enjoy. For us,
    > the sound was not happy.

So I just searched:

    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="play+happy+sound+for+player+to+enjoy"+site%3Astackoverflow.com

GnarlyWhale · on July 21, 2016

"deleted 20507 characters in body"

Hahaha