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When I post the following table into an answer on Stack Overflow, it gives me the "Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. " error.

I was able to circumvent this by surrounding all the entries with backticks, but I'm curious as to why SO thinks this is code.

Opr. short text Act. start Act. finish
Generator Hochzeit 04.11.2022 04.11.2022
Generator Setup 04.11.2022 04.11.2022
Generator Dauertest 04.11.2022 04.11.2022
Generator Endkontrolle
Generator Hochzeit 14.11.2022 14.11.2022
Generator Setup
Generator Dauertest
Generator Endkontrolle
Generator Hochzeit 21.11.2022 21.11.2022
Generator Setup
Generator Dauertest
Generator Endkontrolle
Generator Hochzeit 09.01.2023 09.01.2023
Generator Setup
Generator Dauertest
Generator Endkontrolle

My answer with this table (with the backticks) is here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/75375708/9852011

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    Although this is a known bug (see duplicates), I don't reproduce in this particular case. I don't know if that's because, as a moderator, the quality filter isn't applied to my edits (although I think it is). Either way, the post now looks correct. :-) Commented Feb 8, 2023 at 6:41
  • @CodyGray Thank you for the edit, it looks much nicer without the little code blocks in the table. My guess is "generator" must be one of the words that trigger the code recognition... Commented Feb 8, 2023 at 7:08
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    @CodyGray I don't want to bother you with this but I did some more testing and it appears it's actually the pipes without anything between them that trigger it. putting |||| on 3 rows trigger the error. Putting something between the pipes (ie. |a|a|a|) on just one of the 3 rows clears the error. Commented Feb 8, 2023 at 7:33

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