Problems posting

[Fuschia]

I can't post in the main forum today

[Mark]

Thanks for letting us know, we don't know about a lot of these problems unless we're told, and I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused

Please could you try and answer any of these:

Where do you mean exactly when you say the main forum?

Do you know what time it was? Roughly?

What happens when you try and post?

Do you get an error message?

How are you trying to post? Are you clicking the reply button or are you filling in the box at the bottom of the page?

Are you pressing post message and nothing happens?

Are there no buttons that allow you to post?

Is the word special-ised (without the -) in your post?

The more details the better then I can get someone to look into it

Once again thanks and sorry

[edited once]

[mockney piers]

does your post contain a banned word like viaggra (deliberately misspelled) or cia.lis as in specia.lise specia.list etc (full stop placed to allow post to appear if you get my drift)?

* oops, hadn't spotted the one at the bottom there mark *

[Asset]

I tried to post a couple of times yesterday and it didn't work.

- can't remember whih section

- on clicking post it just went to a page with only the post box on it

- tried clicking post several times, same thing happened

- gave up

[Jah Lush]

Had the same problems as Asset's about 20 minutes ago on the Glasto thread.

[mockney piers]

A little bird informs me that there is an unknown hiccup occasionally occuring.

Apologies if this is causing bother. Give it a couple of minutes and have another pop and avoid use of the word s p e c i a l i s e

[Keef]

Why that word, I don't get it....

[mockney piers]

c i a l i s is a cheap alternative to viagra and a mainstay of spambots who target forums like this one.

The first line of defence is that you have to be registered to post, the second line is antispam software that blocks posts that it thinks will be spam.

Unfortunately like the infamous Scunthorpe council email filter, there can be side-effects.

[Asset]

gosh there ye go - my post yesterday had the word s p e c i a l i s t in it

[mockney piers]

Actually it's just struck me that I managed to post the word viagra, how odd.

[mockney piers]

new specialist with unhyphenated tele-visual

[mockney piers]

televis

[mockney piers]

evi-su

Men's clothing? Are they know for spamming or something?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

MP - you appear to be "doing a Brendan". Get a grip man.

[mockney piers]

how did you get it to appear here then?

I'd give it another go. Change the subject of the thread perhaps

[Administrator]

Sorry, that was my fault. Because there were so many people posting the message "bump" to bump their messages up the list and I have a dislike of messages without content in that section I put a ban on the word "bump" last week and forgot to tell people, especially the moderators. Your message had the word "bumper" in it so it was being disallowed. I have lifted the ban so you can post the message now, sorry for the inconvenience and I will just return to deleting messages the just say "bump".

[Sue]

I have also been having a lot of problems both posting and editing posts on threads that I have started in the "What's On" section.

I emailed admin about it a while ago, but have had no reply.

:-S

[Administrator]

Sorry about that Sue, do your postings have the word "bump" in them?

[Sue]

Some of the new posts I tried to post might have said something like "I'm bumping this thread because ....." eg it's on soon or whatever.

But I don't think they all did.

And that wouldn't explain why I couldn't edit an existing post :-S

In one case I had to start a completely new thread as I couldn't add or change anything at all on the original one - and that obviously just clogs up the forum and causes confusion :-S

[SeanMacGabhann]

I get this every so often - and had it as recently as last week when I tried to bump somthing

I think I realised fairly quickly that it was the word "bump" which cause the problem - I re-worded the post and tried again, which worked first time

I would recommend that anyone with this problem reviews their post and looks for word which MIGHT contain something which may flag a filter. Admin said recently that he had included the word bump in the filter as so many people had used it unnecessarily which not everyone may have seen.. but the word stood out when I reviewed my own post.

At least if anyone posts from Scunthorpe and has problems we will know why

[Sue]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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>> At least if anyone posts from Scunthorpe and has

> problems we will know why

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:)) Well yours seems to have got through OK :))

[Sue]

I am again having problems - I need to put an urgent post on the Hoopers folk night thread, as the timings have changed, and when I click on "post message" I get a page saying "we can't find the web page you are looking for".

The text is as follows - no obvious "bad words" :-S

Please note - there is a change in the timings for this evening as Bulgakov have asked that they sing at 8pm as they are now going down to Glastonbury straight afterwards.

So if you want to see Bulgakov, please be sure that you come down at 8pm.

Sorry for any inconvenience, which was out of the Goose's control :-S

[Administrator]

Try reposting, that message sounds like your internet connection is intermittent.

[Sue]

I did try several times, but will try again, thanks :)