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[KittyPurry]

Hi,

I am a member and have posted in the past, but I am trying to get a message on to the General ED Issues thread and I am only able to preview my message and click 'post'... the nothing happens. I have now tried 4+ times and the result is the same - my post is not appearing on the site. I have just tried responding to someone else's thread to see if that would work and it did, so I am stumped and appealing to you for help as I would really like my post to be on the site asap... help!

[Siduhe]

KittyPurry,

Good chance your post contains a banned word - some of these are not obvious and are to protect the forum from spam. "kitchen" is a good example. Try rewording what you want to say and then posting.

[Administrator]

As Suduhe says it may contain a banned word, if you want to PM me your message I can take a look at it for you.

[miga]

Hi Admin - is it technically possible to have a user's post count displayed in the actual post?

In the business section the way I attempt to gauge genuine recommendations from stooge ones is by looking at the recommenders' post count. This can be tedious if there are several user names I haven't seen before - a post count next to the user name and timestamp in the header would be perfect. Some other forums I frequent have this feature, but understood if there is a technical limitation.

[Administrator]

Hi Miga

I don't think it's possible without some tinkering of the software but if I get some spare time I'll see what I can do.

[miga]

That would be awesome - much appreciated!

[indiepanda]

miga Wrote:

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> Hi Admin - is it technically possible to have a

> user's post count displayed in the actual post?

> In the business section the way I attempt to gauge

> genuine recommendations from stooge ones is by

> looking at the recommenders' post count. This can

> be tedious if there are several user names I

> haven't seen before - a post count next to the

> user name and timestamp in the header would be

> perfect. Some other forums I frequent have this

> feature, but understood if there is a technical

> limitation.

That's a good idea - I know when I look for recommendations I always check the recommender's posting history. If it's a name of someone I know in real life that's the best recommendation, but I have picked up decent ones from regular posters I've not met, having checked they don't just post recommending person X's business every few weeks.

[alice]

A question for admin...

a new local business [shop] has tried to sign up to the forum - but has been unable to do so.

what do they need to do? their email address is [email protected] and the shop is la bow belle on whately/underhill road. thanks

[Administrator]

Hi Alice

They need to sign up by registering on the forum, their email address is not in the system which means they haven't registered.

[alice]

really appreciate that -i 'll tell them

[Tradesman32]

Hi Admin,

I'm posting this from my phone. My home IP address has come up as blocked for some reason. The note said to contact Admin so hopefully an easy fix.

Cheers

[Robert Poste's Child]

In the middle of using the forum this evening I was suddenly blocked from posting. I have emailed you but no reply so far. You didn't send me any messages at the time and I don't think I've contravened any forum rules as my account is still active (I can log in). When I try to post or send a PM I get the error message: 'Your IP address, domain or ISP has been blocked. Please contact the forum administrators.'

Please can you advise.

I'm posting this one via a smartphone.

[Otta]

If you can post from a smartphone then your account hasn't been blocked.

[Robert Poste's Child]

I got that far, but no idea why the laptop and WiFi were ok and then suddenly not. Would appreciate a response from Admin as it's odd that at least two of us were affected at the same time.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Access still blocked from home computer. Admin, please could you respond?

[Administrator]

Hi, sorry I've only just seen this. It seems like a few people have this problem.

Could you let me know what your IP address is https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&q=whats%20my%20ip PM it to me and I'll investigate

Sorry about this.

[DulwichFox]

Im blocked too

[Administrator]

So if you're still having this issue, please go straight to

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=whats%20my%20ip and let me know your IP

By the way, I don't read my emails so PM's the best way to get me (or via here).

[DulwichFox]

I Think I'm back up

[Blah Blah]

I was blocked last night too, same as above, but seems fine now.

[Administrator]

All I can think is that I blocked the IP of a certain lonely person and that caused an issue. Sorry about that but glad it's back up.

[Robert Poste's Child]

I won't be able to check from home until tomorrow now but if it's cleared for everyone else then I expect it has for me too. Thanks for investigating.

[jtshone]

Blocked since past 24hrs

It won't let me actually send you my IP address. Can you contact me via email.

Can you help?

[kthernehill]

Help! I keep being blocked! It switches on and off, with a red message telling me I can't post private messages, and then when a reply to message it just doesn't send. As it is intermittent, one poor person has now got more than one message!

It does the same to my phone as to my iPad. Thanks.

[DulwichFox]

Hello admin lm still having

Problems. Goes blocked comes back up

Now blocked again

DulwichFox