Advanced Search starts with lots of "random" numbers as keywords

[simsaladimbamba]

Hello,

in order to find ZERO post threads I have Advanced Search to search for such, but every now and then, when I open Advanced Search, numbers like the following appear in the Keywords field:

(159 516412 1392467704) (27 516412 1392467704) (4 516412 1392467704) (43 516412 1392467704) (107 516412 1392467704) (38 516412 1392467704) (60 516412 1392467704) (103 516412 1392467704) (160 516412 1392467704) (165 516412 1392467704) (156 516412 1392467704) (154 516412 1392467704) (105 516412 1392467704) (99 516412 1392467704) (109 516412 1392467704) (108 516412 1392467704) (131 516412 1392467704) (162 516412 1392467704) (137 516412 1392467704) (140 516412 1392467704) (151 516412 1392467704) (139 516412 1392467704) (138 516412 1392467704) (163 516412 1392467704) (164 516412 1392467704) (113 516412 1392467704) (115 516412 1392467704) (148 516412 1392467704) (75 516412 1392467704) (157 516412 1392467704) (124 516412 1392467704) (141 516412 1392467704) (133 516412 1392467704) (144 516412 1392467704) (2 516412 1392467704) (136 516412 1392467704) (7 516412 1392467704) (125 516412 1392467704) (91 516412 1392467704) (1 516412 1392467704) (146 516412 1392467704) (126 516412 1392467704) (129 516412 1392467704) (90 516412 1392467704) (122 516412 1392467704) (145 516412 1392467704) (100 516412 1392467704) (77 516412 1392467704) (54 516412 1392467704) (62 516412 1392467704) (76 516412 1392467704) (55 516412 1392467704) (78 516412 1392467704) (69 516412 1392467704) (168 516412 1392467704) (155 516412 1392467704) (152 516412 1392467704) (123 516412 1392467704) (134 516412 1392467704) (86 516412 1392467704) (142 516412 1392467704) (135 516412 1392467704) (73 516412 1392467704) (158 516412 1392467704) (127 516412 1392467704) (57 516412 1392467704) (101 516412 1392467704) (102 516412 1392467704) (81 516412 1392467704) (143 516412 1392467704) (79 516412 1392467704) (83 516412 1392467704) (80 516412 1392467704) (58 516412 1392467704) (6 516412 1392467704) (19 516412 1392467704) (21 516412 1392467704) (20 516412 1392467704) (8 516412 1392467704) (40 516412 1392467704) (47 516412 1392467704) (68 516412 1392467704) (161 516412 1392467704) (132 516412 1392467704) (166 516412 1392467704) (66 516412 1392467704) (82 516412 1392467704) (17 516412 1392467704) (120 516412 1392467704) (50 516412 1392467704) (10 516412 1392467704) (11 516412 1392467704) (88 516412 1392467704) (110 516412 1392467704) (106 516412 1392467704) (48 516412 1392467704) (167 516412 1392467704) (96 516412 1392467704) (149 516412 1392467704) (169 516412 1392467704) (150 516412 1392467704) (53 516412 1392467704) (119 516412 1392467704) (153 516412 1392467704) (89 516412 1392467704) (12 516412 1392467704) (9 516412 1392467704) (41 516412 1392467704) (59 516412 1392467704) (13 516412 1392467704) (52 516412 1392467704) (93 516412 1392467704) (44 516412 1392467704) (64 516412 1392467704) (121 516412 1392467704) (98 516412 1392467704) (18 516412 1392467704) (24 516412 1392467704) (25 516412 1392467704) (104 516412 1392467704) (114 516412 1392467704) (45 516412 1392467704) (61 516412 1392467704) (117 516412 1392467704) (49 516412 1392467704) (92 516412 1392467704) (39 516412 1392467704) (85 516412 1392467704) (14 516412 1392467704) (130 516412 1392467704) (63 516412 1392467704) (28 516412 1392467704) (56 516412 1392467704) (5 516412 1392467704) (42 516412 1392467704) (94 516412 1392467704) (112 516412 1392467704) (84 516412 1392467704) (95 516412 1392467704) (70 516412 1392467704) (111 516412 1392467704) (128 516412 1392467704) (147 516412 1392467704) (116 516412 1392467704) (67 516412 1392467704) (22 516412 1392467704) (51 516412 1392467704) (46 516412 1392467704) (37 516412 1392467704) (29 516412 1392467704) (30 516412 1392467704) (3 516412 1392467704)

Anyone knows, what they mean?

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[arn]

I've never seen this before.

Are you hitting a special url? Or just https://forums.macrumors.com/search/ and those are already filled?

arn

Hello,

in order to find ZERO post threads I have Advanced Search to search for such, but every now and then, when I open Advanced Search, numbers like the following appear in the Keywords field:


Anyone knows, what they mean?

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[simsaladimbamba]

I've never seen this before.

Are you hitting a special url? Or just https://forums.macrumors.com/search/ and those are already filled?

arn

It happened thrice over the last three weeks. I cannot recreate the behaviour though.
When going to Advanced Search I always use that Search dropdown menu on top of the website.

I use Safari 6 on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, which I forgot to add in my OP.

Since creating this thread, it hasn't happened again, I may have shut down my computer twice since then.
The first two times I was not aware, that there would be that many numbers and thought it might have been GPS coordinates or even thread or post numbers, though we are still more than a millennium away from the 1392467704 number.

It does not irritate me, I was just curious, but the low amount of thread views and low response numbers probably indicate a "bug" on my end.

 

[arn]

no, I think it's a bug on our end, but not sure how it's happening.

If it happens again, please make sure to save the url that's in the address bar and send it to me.

arn@normalkid.com

Still trying to track this one down.

arn

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actually... maybe I've come across it.

Can you tell me exactly which search terms you specify when you are doing these searches?

Most Replies
Which forums
etc...

arn

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Can you tell me exactly which search terms you specify when you are doing these searches?

Most Replies
Which forums
etc...

arn

I use the advanced search just like pictured, I use no keywords, I search for threads with zero replies in all sub-fora created since yesterday.
It does not really work, since I also get threads with one or more replies, but I at least get those zero reply threads.

 

[arn]

If it happens again, please copy/paste the URL that you used to get there.

This is a bug on our side. The numbers represent

(forumid youruserid date)

and looks like it lists all of them. But those values shouldn't leak into the form, obviously.

arn

 

[simsaladimbamba]

If it happens again, please copy/paste the URL that you used to get there.

This is a bug on our side. The numbers represent

(forumid youruserid date)

and looks like it lists all of them. But those values shouldn't leak into the form, obviously.

arn

I will do so once it returns.