Young Earth Creationism just got a whole lot younger.

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First of all, I'm SO GLAD that I'm not alone in weeping about the missing EVERYTHING in fic texts and summaries.

Okay, I'm sorta used to the weirdness in summaries and also in the fic texts (even though FFN tightened things even more - now I can't even use HTML escape sequences to work around their filters anymore). But tonight I discovered a much weirder issue (that's also a bit harder to detect): PM censorship of the weirdest kind.

I tried to PM another author and tell her that a certain event takes place "6000 years" before canon (Edit to add: No, not the creation of the world - I just needed a silly headline, and the number happened to be YEC-relevant). Out of habit, I activate "CC me" option. When I check my mails again, I get the CC'd message, open it... and notice how every "6000" magically turned into "60".

However, a reference to something that happens "600 years" ago was kept intact! Only three zeroes or more get chopped down to only one zero. Thank God for CCing!

(Fun fact: From what I saw, this issue doesn't seem to happen in fics - NO clue what they're thinking. I sent a support mail, though...)