I confirmed with the owner of a Kit Building thread (SSE) that he too had serious problems accessing his thread after I ctrl-v inserted a smiley face into a text box. The thread had (at the time) 4 pages of posts. He could access the first 3 pages no problem. The 4th page included post 95 that had my smiley face. He would hang on that post - 20 - 30 minutes!!!!! After I was able to delete the smiley face from the text box the thread could easily be updated and move forward.

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