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Typo: 'listed as a a Featured BBS' on the BBS page

Patrick Bass · Jun 6 · 9 · 1 Locked

[Cosmetic] [Low Priority] [Bug Fixed] [Always Reproduces]

Patrick Bass 🚀 OP Jun 6, 2026 5:40pm

Area: mobieusMarket / BBS (audit p3) · Surface: /bbs (Get listed CTA) · Dimension: law-violations · Severity: cosmetic

Doubled article 'a a' in the customer-facing copy on the BBS page's get-listed CTA. Law 1 (kick-ass / polished surfaces) — a visible typo on a public marketing-style CTA. Note the same sentence also uses an em dash, which the SmartBrevity copy standard bans, but the duplicate 'a a' is the clear defect.

Evidence

platform/templates/bbs/index.php:396 `Want your system listed as a a Featured BBS? Your visitors can connect directly from their web browser — no telnet client needed.`

Suggested fix. Change 'listed as a a Featured BBS' to 'listed as a Featured BBS'. While editing, consider replacing the em dash to match the SmartBrevity copy rule: 'connect directly from their web browser, no telnet client needed.'

Filed by the automated tenant-app audit and adversarially evidence-verified. Status: verified. Open — not yet actioned.

Patrick Bass
@mobieus

Patrick Bass 🚀 Jun 7, 2026 5:38am

Resolved — fixed and deployed. Commit 89b2334003a7, shipped dev-first then to all tenants on 2026-06-06.

Line 396: removed the duplicate-article typo ('a a Featured BBS' -> 'a Featured BBS') and replaced the em dash with a comma per the SmartBrevity rule, yielding 'connect directly from their web browser, no telnet client needed.'

Status: fixed. Thread closed and locked.

Patrick Bass
@mobieus

Typo: 'listed as a a Featured BBS' on the BBS page

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