The Shavening

[the amativeness]

Huh? All I was saying is that, as you can tell by looking at Lyinginbedmon's quote of her, his name is actually Ζє&, but in html/ascii (I'm not sure what the proper term here is). She probably typed Ζє& in, but the forum turned his username into Ζє& . Probably a no-html field in the username, but when it's quoted it gets into the main forum field, which allows html.

Edit: Case in point, I tried typing in Ζє&'s username as it appears in the username field, and the forum automatically turned it into Ζє&.

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Ζє&

= Ζє&

Edit 2: Even in the code brackets it turns the string into three characters. Whatever.

Ok, that's the name that appears as the quote, then why do I see this name for the user on the post:

Ζє&

Methinks you mean:

& #918;& #1108;&

[whyarecarrots]

What the hell... I copypastaed the name from the post and yet it comes up as that?! Ok, something is a bit messed up here...

[Master Gunner]

Because, as Zivlok explained, HTML is active in the post-fields, and thus is rendered as the three characters. The only way to prevent that is to break up the code so it isn't registered as proper code.

[whyarecarrots]

Because, as Zivlok explained, HTML is active in the post-fields, and thus is rendered as the three characters. The only way to prevent that is to break up the code so it isn't registered as proper code.

...Ah. I suppose it didn't help that I didn't understand a word of what Zivlok said
I'm just generally ignorant when it comes to all things technical, so don't worry about trying to explain it to me: it really doesn't matter.

[tamaness]

Ζє& = Ζє&

use & to replace the ampersand(s).

It appears that character replacement is the only HTML active in the post fields. This is quite an interesting development.

[keswickgallagher]

Some form necromancy for The beard and the lost hopes of the return in Olympic beard growing