"Your HTML is not well-formed"

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#1 123Dan123
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Ok, I get this often and it is starting to annoy me. I get it in posts, my blog and whenever I post updates for my Union. I am not sure how many others get this error. However, I am somewhat curious if other users get this message often.

I feel it is an issue that should be addressed immediately. In addition, it makes posting, blogging, and posting updates irritating. I do not know why half the time this error happens. I noticed when you copy-paste it happens quite a bit. However, sometimes I do not copy-paste, and still get this message.

I hope that a Staff member will read this and address this to the rest of the GameSpot Staff.

Also, as I hit "Submit" this error came up. Look in the image below.

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#2 totalgridlock
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Yeah, I get that. Only in blog posts so far, and seems to only happen when I've cut/pasted something, but not every time. Seems to be a Firefox issue, which is annoying as it's the only browser I really like using. Even happens when I use IE Tab/AllowClipboard and everything in FF. I did post about it in another thread and there were some suggestions but nothing that actually fixed it.
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#3 123Dan123
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Oh ok, but I never had this problem before. Only when they updated the message system.
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#4 --Wolf--
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I've been getting it ALOT also, especially when copying and pasting stuff, except mine has "your entity is not well formated" at the end.

WHAT THE HELL DOES ENTITY EVEN MEAN?

I just came here to post this actually, lol

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#5 123Dan123
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Hmmm, I also get that error a lot as well. I think this is a problem GameSpot should look at quickly.
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#6 ForlornHope
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Use the "Paste from word" tool when you paste from word or it interprates it as bad html. Its the folder with the W.
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#7 totalgridlock
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^^^

I don't use Word... is there a 'paste from Notepad' tool?;)

Because seriously, Notepad is probably the simplest plain text editor on the planet, and if Gamespot can't understand stuff cut from there then there's no hope...

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#8 ForlornHope
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^^^

I don't use Word... is there a 'paste from Notepad' tool?;)

Because seriously, Notepad is probably the simplest plain text editor on the planet, and if Gamespot can't understand stuff cut from there then there's no hope...

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It should i used to do that before the paste from word tool was added write it up in word paste it to notepad to remove the formatting and then paste uit to GS. No idea why its not working. I havent had any problems wiht it.

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#9 dragonflame365
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Use the "Paste from word" tool when you paste from word or it interprates it as bad html. Its the folder with the W.ForlornHope

i did that, it worked but now it won't show my new blog post but my stats says i did a new one but i can't see it i'm gettin angry at this stuff!

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#10 jaam
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IN the past when I have got those error messages I have accepted them and then just submit again.

I normally do not get the error message again - and it normally accepts the text and posts correctly.

Can only assume that when I accept the first error message it is cleaning up any text that might be incorrect?

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#11 Impossibilium
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if you get this error there are probably open tags or bad code that results from pasting something. You can paste copy more easily if you switch from the WYSIWYG view to the HTML view. That will let you see what tags are there that shouldn't be.