I don't do BBCode, I only read HTML. This error came from the forum, not from me. I just save the post as it was made before editing.
I should have guessed this. It must be the easiest way to scrape anyway...
Quote the post and then click on preview. You will see that the post is shown correctly. But it doesn't work when it is posted. It says "INVALID BBCODE: close of unopened tag in table (1)"
Interesting how you can quote the post to see contents. I know this is a scenario that's too specific but I'll post my two cents anyway.
Contents of posts otherwise invisible due including a table with broken tags are accessible to any forum member able to quote the post, but invisible in the eyes of robots. I don't see any utility for any poster to do this to their posts intentionally. If they can edit their threads contents could be replaced with something like a dot and be done with it.
But it could be that a few thousands of such posts exist. Google gives out 3100 results when you google ("INVALID BBCODE: close of unopened tag in table" site:bitcointalk.org), some duplicates and some coming from signatures of course.
2550 results if you remove two users that came up with broken sugnatures ("INVALID BBCODE: close of unopened tag in table" site:bitcointalk.org -Gamesbuy -trinaldao)
Now, I'm stepping into territory of a sub-case in a sub-case, but if posts with broken bbcode are still unedited and quotable, then their contents could be salvaged. Could that be worth pursuing? Probably not. But strictly speaking it should be done if you'd want to grab everything that's available.
