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[MrGeeker]

I just registered at this forum and have been nothing but annoyed. I'm trying to get help with some code. I spent 10 mins editing my post, submitted the post, then got an error saying "To help spam you cannot post links". I clicked the back button and my entire post was GONE.

I edited the entire thing over again, wasting another 10 mins, making sure there were no links in my post. There we ZERO links. I only had text and HTML code in my post.

I clicked submit and got the same error, once again losing me entire post when I clicked the back button.

It looks like this forum has a few issues that need to be worked out. Now that I've wasted 30 mins of my life and gotten no help I guess I'll go find a new forum.

[SpacePhoenix]

The editing of posts is blocked after a certain amount of time to stop people replacing their own posts with a load of spam. Links can be posted in a way eg:

www dot sitepoint dot com

When writing any long post (this goes for in any forum) it's best to compose it in say notepad and then copy and paste it into the post box.

[raena]

Hey MrGeeker,

I'm sorry you found that frustrating. It's worth double checking your code to make sure that you didn't have any a elements in the example, as the URLs in your href attributes might be triggering the link checker.

[MrGeeker]

The editing of posts is blocked after a certain amount of time to stop people replacing their own posts with a load of spam. Links can be posted in a way eg:

I'm not sure what you are talking about? I can't edit a new thread that hasn't been posted or post links.

Hey MrGeeker,

I'm sorry you found that frustrating. It's worth double checking your code to make sure that you didn't have any a elements in the example, as the URLs in your href attributes might be triggering the link checker.

Thanks,

I did check and I didnt see anything. But it would be nice if the forum actually warnned me that this was going to happen. If there was a notice at the top saying to remove links. Also, it would be nice if your post wasnt completely deleted when you received the error. It's annoying when you waste time typing something out and the website gives an error, then doesn't let you go back and fix your mistake. It just deletes your post.