I discovered something just now completely by accident when I tried to check out the analytics on my last blog post by manually changing the "steemit.com" to "steemd.com". I accidentally changed the tag field instead and noticed this:
You can do this trick with any post and any tag, as long as the tag has no spaces or goofy characters (=, &, etc.). Which, means if someone visited this following link:
It sends you directly to this:
Poking around, you can do this for any post on this site. For instance, try the top trending story right now. A little misleading, no?
Having the ability to share a custom URL for any post on this site with any tag you would like could lead to a little bit of awkwardness and embarrassment if abused by others. Dev/s (@ned, @dan, others?) is there any way this could be fixed in the future to only go to a tag the original poster intended? Or was this a feature by design?
I doubt it has any real effect though ....
take a look at the tag's page . = https://steemit.com/created/PenisPenisPenisPenisPenisPenisPenisPenisPenisPenis
there are no posts with that tag, indicating that nothing changed with the original post.
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True. The harm here only comes from that tag appearing above one's post. Could be used to cause a reader to think, at least temporarily, that an author meant to have that tag.
Now, if we can only get PenisPenisPenisPenisPenisPenisPenisPenisPenisPenis trending ...🤔
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https://steemit.com/VeryInterestingIndeed/@team-leibniz/it-s-not-a-bug-it-s-a-feature-did-you-know-you-can-change-the-tag-on-any-steem-url
Nice find
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this is serious! it could really harm posts . thank you for finding this!
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Upvoted for the steemd.com trick. :D
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