clicking back on failed post returns to blank textarea
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clicking back on failed post returns to blank textarea
It's rather annoying that, when I tried to post my first post on this board, I got an error message saying I couldn't post URLs until after posting 5 times -- and then when I clicked back, my post was gone.
I understand wanting to cut down on spam.
But, it would be polite to have returned my post to me for editing instead of just discarding it.
I've had the same thing happen - but because I have a flakey mail client at work I've gotten used to typing posts in a text editor and copying/pasting into a compose window.
Probably though, once you're over your 5 posts, you'll never strike the problem again.
just a reminder to all newbies out there- please post constructive posts to get up to five urls. You'll be liked better.
If the post was returned to you, then a spammer could post a broken url and spam spam spam. not good.
titanium_geek
Yeah, I understand the spamming problem.
The biggest problem I had was I wanted to post constructive posts right off the bat -- by offering URLs with the solution to other users' problems.
I also know I won't have to worry about it anymore. And, I don't really care about not being able to post the URLs -- I just told about the site instead of offering a link.
What I really cared about was loosing the post I typed.
Minor workaround for those who want to post legitimate URLs while still having less than five posts: Just remove the http and the www part before a URL and you can still post a readable URL. Only thing is it won't be a clickable link
man, trying to be useful and getting burned with the 0 link policy? ouch. I guess that's the price we pay for keeping out spam. I guess 5 posts is easy to get under your belt though, and after that you can spam -er- post links as much as you want. I have known forums that had even stricter multilevel restrictions (ie - 5 posts till can do this, 10 till can do that) etc.
i believe that this is down to the software now used - AJAx and all that. Something that I like to suggest is to write your post (particularly if it's a long one) into a text editor and then copy/paste it as a workaround to this.
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