= phenomenon = Upstream's recently made a commit that disallows tags to start with #. It's worth trying out. We have tags with #s all over the place, thanks to FB and Twitter.
This is the upstream commit: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/commit/932f841e3093594c26181db7ff523e5dd5a14acb
I have a patch between this and its parent commit but I doubt it'll apply cleanly. There are quite a few commits between this and the 0.7.49 tag. Hopefully we can refer to the patch and manually make changes to generate ourselves a hotfix.
We should test this on staging before tinkering with prod, obviously.
git diff 512838a..932f841e3093594c26181db7ff523e5dd5a14acb askbot-932f841-disallow-hash-at-beginnings-of-tags.patch
We are on 0.7.51 now, so this patch is already there. ;)