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We had a bug recently where one of our internal bots didn't correctly parse usernames with hyphens in them, so instead of tagging @tom-jones, it would tag @tom

Sorry everyone randomly pinged by our bot.

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Talking about failing to parse names, I remember a co-worker once was working on a form and had added a special character validation field to the name field. The only problem was that it blocked apostrophes, and he was Irish so his form wouldn't actually accept his own name.

He’s not the king of bedside manor

He’s not the Tom Jones who lives next door

He’s not the king of bedside manor

He hardly even lives there anymore.

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