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I'll update if I manage to get it to go through.

Edit 1: It's not the slash, and putting spaces before the periods doesn't do anything either. I also tried copy/pasting it in and out of a text editor in case there was some weird unicode, but that didn't do anything.

Edit 2: Snipping off the second sentence allowed me to post, then editing and pasting it back in worked. I also refreshed the tab a few times to see if that was the problem (didn't do anything). No idea what was going on here.

I'll update if I manage to get it to go through. Edit 1: It's not the slash, and putting spaces before the periods doesn't do anything either. I also tried copy/pasting it in and out of a text editor in case there was some weird unicode, but that didn't do anything. Edit 2: Snipping off the second sentence allowed me to post, then editing and pasting it back in worked. I also refreshed the tab a few times to see if that was the problem (didn't do anything). No idea what was going on here.

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Anticlutch found it above. It's "bit" and "does" separated by a space. No idea how I got it to paste in the end.

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It seems like maybe it's bit and then do. I had problems posting that but it then do seemed to work.

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Interesting

Edit: Yep, "bit" "do" seems to be causing the problem. Incidentally, I looked up "bit" dot "do" and it seems to be a URL shortener. I'm guessing spammers were using it.

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I'm sure you're over it by now but I tried a few arbitrary characters instead of a space like a comma, an f, the number 4 - they all cause the same problem. I'd have to see the code but it seems like maybe a character in a regular expression isn't escaped properly. In regular expressions, a single period is like a wildcard that will match any single character.

So it might be a case where someone was expecting the period to be read literally but instead it's a stand-in for any character.

Edit: it looks like whatever Poal is doing to check forbidden domains is treating the period character as a single character wildcard and might need to be escaped so it will stop causing false positives.