Bug Report: Invalid Account Names

in #utopian-io • 7 years ago (edited)

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Expected behavior

The Steem blockchain should not contain invalid account names. It should at least be possible to unfollow these invalid accounts.

Actual behavior

The blockchain does contain invalid account names.

These account names show up on front-end web apps such as steemit.com:

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A sample account name that is invalid is the empty account name is the null account name which shows above. Some other invalid account names in the blockchain contain invalid characters such as ampersands, etc...

It is impossible to unfollow the null account.

How to reproduce

This bug can be reproduced with any browser and any operating system. A visual reroduction would be to visit profile https://steemit.com/@money-dreamer/followed and notice that the first account followed is the null account.


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     7 years ago 

    Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.
    Wow, This one is really fascinating. Thanks for sharing it with us.
    You can contact us on Discord.
    [utopian-moderator]

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     7 years ago 

    My account is stuck with 1 followed:



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     7 years ago 

    Very interesting. Is there a place to actually report bugs like this? Or is the only hope making a post about it?

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     7 years ago 

    Utopian.io up-votes it and the open-source developers of Steem must pay close attention to reports there.

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     7 years ago 

    Ah okay, makes sense now. Nice spot btw.

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     7 years ago 

    Dude! receaved your gift! Thank you kind sol :)
    And yes I do agree how there should be a way how to unfollow the empty account name/ null accounts

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     7 years ago 

    Hey @money-dreamer I am @utopian-io. I have just upvoted you!

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     7 years ago 

    Thank you for your Kind Gift!

    peace & light
    juan jose...aka oneness

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     7 years ago 

    Nice catch. Thanks for making life better for me and all Steemians.

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     7 years ago 

    Thank you for your gift @money-dreamer :) i upvoted this post.