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Yes I'm serious. There is a real use for posting more than three question marks in a row. I cannot name glitch Pokemon correctly and I am irrationally bothered by that.

I understand you don't want people putting "pls help??...?" in their question titles, but experts are capable of removing that themselves. Please? :')

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Edit: I'm guessing its not for comments.
It's for the title of the question or in answers I assume, because I think I can post 5 ?s in a row here.

Test: ?????
Does this have anything to do with certain other characters also creating formatting, instead of just asterisks? I can't say off the top of my head what they are, but, unless my memory is incorrect, there are some other symbols that cause italicization.
I've also noticed (again, assuming that my memory is correct) that backslashes do remove formatting in the preview of questions and answers but not when they're posted, and the only way to show characters that would normally cause formatting is to put them in code.
Why has it received 8 upvotes?
@HT I checked a lot of possible workarounds, and none worked. The filter is very invasive. (Also, I'm 99% sure backslashes are still working properly? Do you have an example of when they didn't?)

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