My messages and comments get filtered

Hi,

since yesterday whatever I try to post on the site gets immediately deleted. Did I end up on some blacklist for some reason?

Thanks,

Vladimir

Conversation 8 comments

  • Vladimir Carli

    Premium Member
    12 April, 2019 - 7:24 pm

    <p>this post went through. The post that gets deleted is something I wrote in a text editor and I am trying to copy&amp;paste it in a new forum post. Is there some rule against copying and pasting?</p>

    • jimchamplin

      Premium Member
      12 April, 2019 - 11:38 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#420276">In reply to Vladimir:</a></em></blockquote><p>How would the forum know the difference?</p>

      • Vladimir Carli

        Premium Member
        13 April, 2019 - 5:17 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#420298">In reply to jimchamplin:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>I have no idea. Maybe the broswer activates a flag if the text is copied and pasted? I have the feeling that the problem are the spam filters. I can post these messages but I the text I wrote (361 words) gets rejected as a new post and also as a comment to an existing post. Is it possible that there is a limit on the number of words/characters?</p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      15 April, 2019 - 12:41 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#420276">In reply to Vladimir:</a></em></blockquote><p>If you have some special characters or URLs in the post, it can get lost. I had this problem a while back. I wrote a very long post and wrote it in an editor frist. The post kept disappearing. I then posted the introduction in a header post and that worked. I then tried posting the rest in a reply (you can't edit the original post) and it didn't work. I kept posting into the reply in chunks and eventually came across some command line instructions or a URL, I can't remember exactly, and it didn't want to post it, so I had to reformat it.</p><p>Edit: I just remembered… The forums don't like backslashes in the post text!</p>

  • madthinus

    Premium Member
    13 April, 2019 - 2:33 am

    <p>Test to see if it is the problem? Nope, works fine from Notepad. </p>

  • Paul Thurrott

    Premium Member
    13 April, 2019 - 8:57 am

    <p>We don't have such a thing. Or any way to block copy and paste.</p>

    • Vladimir Carli

      Premium Member
      13 April, 2019 - 10:38 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#420311">In reply to paul-thurrott:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>I copied the text in notepad and from there to a new post. It worked. I guess there was some code inside that the site did not like. Black magic…</p><p>V.</p><p><br></p>

  • robinwilson16

    14 April, 2019 - 6:59 am

    <p>I know if I try to post any hyperlinks I am just told an error occurred until I make the hyperlink not a hyperlink which has been an issue for a couple of years now. Some other things trigger the error too. </p><p><br></p><p>Could it be the text editor you are using is not plain text so is inserting some hidden characters or something that the site doesn't like? What are you using?</p><p><br></p><p>Another issue I have sometimes is that when clicking on an article on the homepage it scrolls down to the comments box and I need to scroll back up again to actually read the article.</p>

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