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by cmiller5400

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I give up. I've had it. I surrender. I quit.

Multiple times over multiple days I've tried to post an answer to Q&A's, and it still won't post. I was saving my posts in notepad so I could try and post later but it still doesn't help. I can't post it seems, so...

I hate to give up on a site, so, to those in the know and the PTB's, [b]PLEASE, PLEASE [/b] fix this (or tell me what the H E double hockey sticks I'm doing wrong if it is my fault). It has been a great 12 years I've been here on this site, I've had many laughs here and shed too many tears when we lost some of our dear friends (w2ktechman, santee, OlderMycroft, and others I can't remember) and I'd like to continue being part of this community but this is just plain frustrating.

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by slayer_

Especially since they got rid of the page refreshing thing.

Can you describe exactly whats happening?
Also, what browser do you use and do you have any addins like add blockers or script blockers installed and running?

by maxwell edison

I wasn't planning on posting anything else either; but for you, I make an exception. My sentiments are similar to yours, except I consider the possibility that other things are going on as well.

Both a Moderator and a PTB posted a message saying it (my original denied discussion) would be looked into, but that was before the subsequent discussion was either pulled or lost. Nonetheless, no one has explained anything to me either. So much for [i]looking into it[/i]. And their silence speaks for itself.

Not that I deserve anything special, because I don't. This is their site, not mine. At this point, I don't really care if my discussion was lost, nor do I care if it was pulled. Nor do I care if my original discussion was denied because of some sort of censorship; it's their right to censor, or their right to be incompetent enough to lose discussion messages. Either way, [i]"Turn Out the Lights"[/i]; the party's over for me.

Every show eventually has a last episode.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvRGh2NEjSU

..... as does this show.

Last call.

by av .

It only happened when I was using IE. It didn't matter what version. When I used Chrome on this site, the posts worked with no problem (except if you have a URL the spam filter doesn't like). How ridiculous is it that you can't post a URL without making it look like it isn't a URL.

I just can't believe its been a year and a half since their upgrade and the site still has the same issues.

It would be really nice to have some feedback about these continuing problems.

AV

by cmiller5400

This last one did have a URL, but I tried it as is, and monkified (it actually was to a sister site on CNET, I would hope that that wouldn't be caught by the SPAM filter :O ). Discussions I don't seems to have an issue with (as often) but Q&A is more problematic. Oh well

by Wizard57M-TR

I keep hoping it gets fixed. I did run across one of your replies in the
Q&A that said you were the "last" to post, but the post isn't there???
Strange...

by deadly ernest

I ask as I have an intermittent script error that seems to occur when I hit the 'submit reply' or the 'save' button on an edit of a post. It seems to site there and do nothing with the boxes still open as if I'm entering a reply. Yet if I hit the browser 'refresh' button when the refreshed page comes up the post is there.

edit - I'm using Fire Fox 13.0 with AdBlock Plus 2.03 and Better Privacy 1.68 on Zorin OS 5 Premium Linux
This seems to happen a couple of times a day, and sometimes with short posts it will happen to a couple in a row. I wonder if it's something that's happening when certain maintenance actions are happening or not; I don't know.

second edit - the freeze thing I mentioned above just happened with the last edit, too.

by hal 9000

It happens every time that I edit any post regardless of where on TR.

After I click on Submit Reply or whatever is there it just sits unchanged on the page till I refresh it.

Col

by hal 9000

My Alter Ego Oh Smeg always places a space between the domain name and the .whatever so that the posts are not rejected by the Filters.

With this account it's not supposed to be scanned by the Spam Filters but honestly I've never bothered to post URLs without the space since the last site downgrade. Personally I seem to remember something about the site being developed with the Mac Standard so it should display right in Safari and then maybe work sort of right with FF, Opera, and so on and being really marginal if you use Infernal Exploder ever.

I naturally use IE 8 predominately because most of my customers use it so I'm probably seeing the worst that the site can be. ;)

So for instance if I need to post a link to something I post it as this

http://www.corsair .com/en/usb-drive/flash-voyager-gt.html

and add something like this. [i]Remember to remove the space from between [b]corsair[/b] and the [b].com[/b] to get a working link.[/i]

That's the only way I've been able to post to questions where I felt a link was needed. Even if you post without the Link and then edit the post to include the link it disappears within a couple of hours. So if you insert a space it solves the current Spam Issues.

I hope that is of some assistance.

Col

by deadly ernest

URLs when I put them in posts and have posted dozens of posts with URLs in the last few weeks, even a couple of biggies with seven or eight URLs in them and they were all accepted OK, however the most common URL I post is for a page on wikipedia.

by Wizard57M-TR

Every once in a while, even when the top of the page shows me logged in,
I get a popup notice to sign in or register to post. I'm currently booted
into Slax, using Opera 10.10 for Linux, I'll see if this goes through.

ps...no problems this time...

by ansugisalas

In my experience, if one browser blows chunks over it, another will work it just fine.
They say that having more than one browser on a system is bad security, but I have to wonder how much of that is IDKitis.

by cmiller5400

I just tried posting to another Q&A and it will not take my post. It definitely is the link that is causing my posts to go to the big bit bucket in the sky. I even posted and edited the post to include the link(both non changed and changed) and it blasted it.

Guess spammers have free reign as I flagged 4 or 5 earlier (pointing to some foreign country URL). but a post to a link on CNet or Microsoft's site is a no go...

by Wizard57M-TR

don't know how they get around the filters, UNLESS, the only thing I can
see different is most of us old-timers use the leadoff "protocol" for http or
whatever, and many of the spam posted URLs do not, just the 3w thing.

by hal 9000

And when I didn't add a space into the full URL the post just disappeared. When I reposted with the space it was accepted.

I must remember to add the space and take a copy before posting but lately the site has been fairly good and not blown any posts out the Airlock till today.

Not sure what the others use when they include links but the full HTTP:// defiantly gets hit on way too many occasions for my liking. Microsoft Links are most defiantly the most likely ones to be deleted though. ;)

Col

by who am i really

Don't parse links in posts
sure click-able links are convenient
but if a script is running to stop the script that parses the links it's just redundant bloat

remove both and just let the links post as plain text
if a user is actually interested in what's at the link
they can copy / paste to the location / address bar

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