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Uh-oh! Q&A bug………

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My answer to the posted-yesterday question about ‘computer slowdown’ got cut in two, and only the second half posted (3 times). I just left a mess over there trying to get the first half to show up. When I clicked ‘edit’ each time to attempt to reinsert the missing text, IT WAS THERE, but as soon as I hit ‘submit’, it posted without it again. You have the missing text, but it just won’t commit to the page. I even tried choosing a generic synonym for ‘YouTube’ (which I’d mentioned as a cache-hog) in case that was causing a ‘spam-alarm’ or something, but no go.
Has this happened to anyone else answering a question in the last day? HAL 9000? wizard57? (I know you two get to most of them first)….

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Not to me recently

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But I do keep getting logged in with different User Accounts. Granted they are mine but I can be logged in as HAL post a few answers to things in the Disgusting Forums and then the next post that I make comes up as Smeggy.

OK I would be really confused if any of the other Accounts that I have suddenly came up as I keep them for Emergency Use but what I’m seeing a lot of more recently like over the last day or two is the need to sign in while I’m already signed in. Make a Post then read something and respond to it and I get prompted to log in again. 😉

Col

No, I just have entire posts disappear.

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Your experience is new and interesting. 😉

You have a url?

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So I can check the post out?

Here it is; the 2nd half of my answer is posted there about 3 times;

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Everything before the words ‘hard disk drive’ never made it (it was a paragraph or so explaining about ‘clear browsing history/temp files’ in ‘internet options’, and how much of that cache such things as embedded videos in open tabs can use):
URL =
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/101-350742

Thanks for the look.

Found the issue…

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This seems to be related to another bug I had already filed. You are using carets in your message. Anything before a right caret seems to not display.

For now I left your message as it sits, as I added it to my bug, and I wish to keep it intact for our engineers.

-Tammy [_]3

I always heard carets were good for me…..

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and that millions of starving kids on the Korean peninsula would love to have them.

I’ll try to refrain until it’s fixed.
P.S. I’m still rooting for you overworked savants to get my ‘My Stuff’ to display anything…..(don’t they realize they should pay you more?!).

That’s odd…

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My stuff is displaying perfectly….
Have you tried a “hard refresh”? You do it by holding down shift as you hit refresh… makes the browser reload everything, and it helps resolve issues where there’s old junk in the cache messing with the style script.

What is wrong with your MyStuff??

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Ansu is correct – have you tried a hard refresh first to see if you are still having issues.

If you are, what issues? We just fixed several things a couple weeks ago (i.e. favorites, null error)

-Tammy [_]3

For the first time in a few weeks my ‘Stuff’ is

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suddenly visible. Last night I saw AnsuGisalas’ suggestion and tried ‘shift+refresh’…..nothing. (My ‘stuff’ page has been showing the total # of posts I’ve made, but failing to list them by title as links; below the numerical total are the columns ‘discussions, contribution, date, et al’ but nothing beyond that). Tried it again today after seeing you second the idea (I’ve never heard of ‘shift+refresh’ before; that’s exactly the sort of thing I hang out with you folks to glean here and there), and still nothing. Then I shut all my browser tabs, purged my system with TweakNow PowerPack, and re-started it (I almost never restart; close-the-lid = sleep). Behold! There’s my posts! I hope it lasts, too, as my ability to hold up my end of ‘spirited discussions’ in a timely fashion relies in large part on being able to find and/or refer to earlier posts (or dormant discussions) quickly.

Now, since it’s Thanksgiving, I’ll give thanks, pass the carets, and dig in! Hope you do the same, Tammy…..

xoxo,
Karl

Credit where due…

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it was golampo who first gave the instructions for the “hard refresh”… and it was news to most of us, I think.
For some reason TR is quite dependent on what’s in local caches… but apparently there are things even the hard refresh can’t get rid of.
Adding to solutions list : Gut the browser and Reboot if all else fails. 😀

Thanks Karl!

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Several of our scripts are cached (hence why the hard refresh – or just clear your cache)

Glad to hear all is back to normal.. or as normal as it can get 🙂

-Tammy [_]3

While you’re here Tammy (or golampo)

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How about fixing the script for the “Top 3 users”, pretty please?… It hasn’t refreshed in over a month… which normally would be fine, but it froze up with a spammer at #2, which is annoying.

Well actually

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It’s not so much the spammer at #2 but AnsuGisalas @ #1 which is the problem.

Apparently he’s tired of getting lots of Peer Mail asking him how to fix things from complete strangers and it’s driving him crazy. 😉

OH and BTW AnsuGisalas I hope you’ve read your TR Community Central Newsletter this week. If you haven’t you best hurry up. :0

Col

The problem is server-side

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You see, the code to prevent people from PMing me takes up a lot of resources whenever someone tries… so all the people who want me to set up a bank account for their millions are really slowing down the system… think of all the money I could’ve had, eh?
But thanks for the headsup! Yoink!

A month?!

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I think the spammer’s been there since June or July, at least. That’s about the time I started participating here regularly, and that name in #2 seems like part of the landscape of TR to me (though I never noticed his by-line on a post in that time)…….

People with no sense of the present

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have really really long months 😀
You’re probably right… that spammer was prolific, bot-style, for a week or so. Since then, nothing.
So the counter seems to be broken.

As for the spammer at #2, that is not the only violation

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Seems there is a bunch of them stuck in place that I would think should be gone by now, just made a list, with their positions in case anyone is interested;

02 yarinsiz
14 birumut
27 lesterking214
30 pama10
34 sherel28
36 deckeberr
43 ecolleapierr
46 julietNguyen
47 ntnl2011
49 hstorferyenru
50 shantelle1109
55 onrory
59 fgyuhydfg
66 hama10
68 a11517329
70 reillyroberto
74 fgjgfjgdfhf
76 victoria24031987
81 zhangttt
82 alice999
85 nikhilsky
87 ealledwa
88 runeklan
90 popodo

Spammers should not be listed as “Rock Stars”

By all means…

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let’s keep the rock stars and the suck sters apart!

Happened to me as well here

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http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/101-350886?tag=content;discussion-table

The entire post disappeared when I clicked on the link to submit. I can however post here without a problem.

Col

Poof and it appears…

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Col,

yours was not displaying as you used a tinyurl.com in your comment. bit.ly and tinyurl.com are banned (too many spammers use them, so I have told our filter to not allow them through – sorry)

-Tammy [_]3

Taminkins

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Way too many Spammers use URL’s to begin with so does that mean no more URL in Answers to Questions? 😀

OH OH OH I have a great link to Cheap Mink Coats and Harley Motor Cycles would you like me to post it here? :^0

But I’ll post the Long thing from now on and just hope that TR doesn’t start breaking them again. 😉

Col

Mayhaps, longer url’s are the way to go

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check this;

http://hugeurl.geeks.org

No it does not support such a Huge one, tried hugeing the link to this post and it did not work so good. Rats.

Good…

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somehow it seems overcompensatish 😉

yes please…

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you can use this url: tammywantsnewharley.com 😀

-Tammy [_]3

The Newest Hardly a Devision

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Come with Mink Covered Seats so the people at PETA [b]People Eating Tasty Animals[/b] think that it’s great.

They saw a new British Series on TV called Kill It Cut It and Use It. 😉

OH and here’s the newest Hardly a Davision just for you Taminkins. 😉

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj121/HAL9000_photo/DSC00585.jpg

It’s currently incomplete as the Streamers in the end of the Handle Bars are not fitted or any of the other [b]Gaudy[/b] bits that the Yanks like so much. So it’s in AU guise. But on the up side it accelerates well to it’s top speed and is very [b]”Green”[/b] it currently gives over 312 Miles per US Gallon so it’s not only very green it’s very cheap to run. 😀

OH and in case you are wondering the Critter was died Purple before it was killed and skinned hence the seat color. Or maybe it just died as it was being altered to the Purple Color as it may have drowned in the process. :^0

Back in the older days HD bought out Aerchmachi to get a small Italian Bike and then did away with it now that have bought into the Chinese Operation and here is their new 2 Stroke offering. The HD Stickers are currently still in design to fit the leaking fuel tank. They have to be specially made so they don’t peel off.

Other than that I’ve finished all Development on this New HD unit. I’m supplying HD with these at $1,200.00 per unit and the current projected price to US Citizens in the USA is $45,324.98 so a good profit is to be made by all. 😉

Col

Sorry Taminkins Me Bad

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How many do you want me to setup for you and forward to you via HD?

I’m taking orders now but there may be a slight delay after all 50 year old Dragster Frames are a bit hard to come by and as they are not being made any more it’s a slow process. 😀

But at least the chrome stands up much better than the current crop of HD offerings. :p

Col

The latest on ‘Stuff’:

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Now that the restart/hard refresh ‘fix’ is known, I just atttempted to look back further than the first page of my comments (page 1 goes back to about Oct. 25), and none of them are showing. It claims 6 pages of comment titles, but will only display the most recent pagefull.

What happens if you look

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at this link

http://www.techrepublic.com/members/discussions/6598793?tag=discussion-thread

It goes to my My Stuff,

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defaulted to the tab ‘discussions’, claims 299 messages…and shows none of them. That’s been my problem; ‘hard refresh’ doesn’t help, but rebooting and re-signing in brings up the first page (of 6) only….Now I’m going to try just closing and re-opening browser (IE9).

Get Firefox

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loaded, see if that will clear the issues.

Just like that

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…it’s ALL there. I’ve been off FF for a couple of years, but I deduce now that the issue may be MS’s (ie IE…I couldn’t resist typing that), not TR’s. Now I’m going to find Ghostery and a few others I used to use with this browser…..

Thank you for the interest and advice, Michael.

IE has a number of issues

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with TR, glad to be of assistance.

I find myself on an IE 8 unit and

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I do not see these issues, IE 8.0.6001.18702. Not often that I use IE and was hoping to see just what you have seen, but it does appear to work properly with regard to My Stuff.

Most times I am on a Ubutnu box using Firefox, something wierd is going on from your place, but glad you can get to see what you need now.

I still have to refresh a just-loaded Discussion page

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…to see comments’ votes. That’s with FF.

I am getting the sinking feeling

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that the internet browsers just don’t like you 🙂

That’s me, all right:

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The Sailor who Fell From Grace with the Sea….

KES

This has been fixed…

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.. Let me know if this issue should decide to return without a golden ticket sporting gifts and cookies for all 🙂

-Tammy [_]3

Thanks Taminkins

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Now lets see how long it lasts before we break it again. 😀

Though I must admit that the no Tiny URL is a real pain. Looks like I’m going to have to go and redo several Questions like this so I can post them again. I used to just Bookmark them and Copy & Paste then as an answer, see my response to this question. . :_|

http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/101-342724?tag=content;discussion-table

Col 0:-)

Those are still working… so old ones aren’t affected (don’t mess with the chtonians)

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You should add that question to your own favourites, then you can grab the urls from behind the tinyurls whenever you need them… sort of like a bookmark, only more cumbersome 😉 :p

RE:- [i]sort of like a bookmark, only more cumbersome[/i]

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You’ve got that one right. I gave up half way through converting everything to the full URL’s.

Way too complicated for little old Dumb me. 😀

Col 😉

I sorry Col :-(

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I know its a hassle.. and Ansu is right, it shouldn’t effect past urls.

The problem here Tammy

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Is I used to Copy & Paste the Links to any New Answers about Data Recovery where the Questioner wanted to know what Software was available.

It’s much more personal if you provide the answer that they want instead of posting a link that they have to go to for the different software that is available.

Yep I know I’m LAZY but I’ve been that way a long time now, and it’s more than a [b]Habit[/b] by now. 😉

Col

When posting links works at all.

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I’ve had trouble on and off with that. Put a link in a post, post doesn’t post at all, but reloads the page with empty fields and no error message.

Last time, I did this three times in a row, cleared caches and tried once more, then I stripped the link and it posted normally. Edited it, stuck the link back in, and it did post.

im also not seeing my posts

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i have tyried multiple tiomes to answer some questions, and they do not appear when i click submit

4 days later and still not working

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hi,

still not working, i have tried this from windows 7, ie8
windows xp ie7
Unbuti with firefox

and none are working. i want to answer some questions and i cannot. Any ideas on how to resove this?

Are you posting links in your answers?

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Because that can cause the message to get dropped.
Specifically if you use tinyurl or another link-shortener, that’ll drop the post every time.
Otherwise, try to press shift-F5 in your browser window, then check again.

That appears to be it, I took the links out of my post and it works

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That appears to be it, I took the links out of my post and it works. Thank you!

But the articles that hed great pictures and steb by steps intructions were great, its ashame i cannot post the link.

I did not want to copy and paste the article and have some copyright issues.

You can do like the spammers do…

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and unlink the link; for instance like this www . website . net/restofurl/blabla/bla . htm
That’s not too hard on the recipient to reform, and it will let you pass on the info.

Clear your browser cache

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The scripts that run these pages are client-side and may need to be refreshed.

A hard refresh doesn’t always work, but clearing the cache does (at least for me). In Firefox, I use the ClearCache add-on to do this.

tried that, but no differemece ..

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it seems that i was posting linnks to some MS articles to give a step by step on using GPO to lock down USB drives, TR seems to drop the message if i put in any links. 🙁

I haven’t had that problem

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I do know TR blocks links to tiny url and bit. ly, though.

Edit: For example, I had to repost this because I didn’t obfuscate the two site names.

Anyone notice that the Top Three Power Users List

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Has been sort of Fixed?

The High Usage Poster and everyones favorite TR member yarinsiz… has finally moved from the Number 2 Spot.

Of course they have been moved all the way to #3 so as I said above [b]Sort Of Fixed.[/b] 😀

Col

Wow…

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you’re right. That’s sort of cool! 😀

And then a few days later yarinsiz

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hops right back to second, crazy.

Maybe they should finally take the top 3 down?

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At least until they can slice the spammers out of there.

I think they are holding

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the spammers on the list for testing, the testing of what I am not sure.

Regular folks, like santeewelding, who stop posting fall down the list, he is already at 37.

Yeah…

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They should make a Hall of Fame for Absent Friends…
There are too many of them, by definition, but not too many to list.

I thought about doing that

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but it would be just too painful.

Yeah, I know.

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I thought maybe a just simple memorial hub post, and link it to the ‘wake’ threads, and the profiles of our Absent Friends.

It does hurt. Makes me wonder: Sometimes pain is a message we’re not hearing. Not sure where to go with that, though.

Yes I noticed the movement a couple of days ago

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so I am crazy enough to update the list I made a while ago, it seems former spammers are being held on the list, well most of them.

03 yarinsiz………………………….-1
16 birumut………………………….-2
26 lesterking214…………………+1
32 pama10…………………………-2
34 sherel28………………………even
35 deckeberr……………………..+1
39 ecolleapierr…………………..+4
41 julietNguyen………………….+5
xx ntnl2011……………..off the board
44 hstorferyenru………………..+5
46 shantelle1109……………….+4
53 onrory………………………….+2
61 fashionqi……………..new to board
62 fgyuhydfg……………………..-3
65 hama10……………………….+1
68 a11517329…………………even
xx reillyroberto………….off the board
70 fgjgfjgdfhf……………………..+4
73 victoria24031987…………..+3
75 zhangttt……………………….+6
xx alice999………………off the board
xx nikhilsky………………off the board
77 ealledwa……………………..+10
79 runeklan……………………..+9
80 popodo……………………….+10

It seems most moved up, some moved down or out and one new one.

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