Schmuck Bait?

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In leaving a comment, I just came across this entry: "Leave this field blank" -- an imperative without a period. What is this about?

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I wondered too

Patricia Marie Allen's picture

It left me with the urge to put something in it just to see what happened... but like a good girl I left it blank.

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Patricia

Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt

If I had to guess,

it's an anti-bot measure.

Bots likely populate any text fields with the text they've been programmed to put in there (for instance, spamvertising). If there's text in the field, it's likely someone we don't want posting anyway.

Yup

erin's picture

You probably only saw that field because of a failure loading the CSS since it is normally only visible to bots.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Oh!

Hypatia Littlewings's picture

I kept typing
blank
in to it
no wonder I could not post!
:p