You describe an interesting glitch. You could try putting up more posts in order to see if the glitch recurs, or could try posting on another device if you gave access to one.

Good luck!

...things seem okay.

However, the trolling on that one OP is continuing with a new username.

Your experience with the odd presentation of the title window sets off an alarm in me that DU is being hacked. I hope that this is not true.

...and I'm wondering if I should sign out and abandon my current user account and start another since it seems to be connected to my account somehow?

Is it possible for an admin to jump in here or mail me?

was once a DUer from back to 2001, was eventually banned, and has come back over and over, literally thousands and thousands of times since (with occasional breaks). So far she has had 123 returns just since 7/24/24. She apparently has some serious mental health issues that are not being addressed.

IOW, it's not you, it's the subject matter that she seeks out and you unfortunately got slimed, and she's known to "return to finish an argument".

I hope that the disruptor is not from our Commonwealth.

Best wishes.

is happily disupting from the Land of Lincoln!

Maybe not for long, though.

. . . it does not seem that the goal of the hack or virus is to take down DU, but, rather, to generate instant pre-worded trolling posts designed to disrupt the discussion in the thread.