A member has reported that he's getting a message saying his posts need to be authorised before they're accepted. Anyone else getting this?
If so, please give us as much info as possible so we can sort this out quickly.
Thanks.
I am :D but then you know that already, so I'll see if its doing it by posting....
This happens if the poster has spent more than 15 mins to do the post.
Quote from: delanvital;281493This happens if the poster has spent more than 15 mins to do the post.
This is different.
Quote from: OldBloke;281496This is different.
Uhm... okay :)
I am not talking about editing though
Quote from: delanvital;281493This happens if the poster has spent more than 15 mins to do the post.
Blimey, I know it can take me a while to work out what I wanna say sometimes, but 15 mins for each post is a bit much, & as I seem to be the only one that this is happening to & oldie thinks he might have fixed it, this is the test!
not as far as im aware
This (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martin.reed8/forum.JPG) is what's been happening to me, every time I post it's showing as needing moderator approval, incase it's happening to anyone else.
The only thing that will be causing this is you're being flagged up on the anti-spam service.
A couple of questions. What ISP are you on and are you on a dynamic IP?
ISP is Virgin & I was trying out - https://www.opendns.com (https://www.opendns.com) ,dunno why, one of those daft things we like to do, i'll try setting it back to narmal & i'll see if that makes a differance.
DNS set back to normal, lets see if this works....
may take a while as if it's flagged your IP up as a possible spam source it could take a bit of time to come off the list. I'll do some further checking to see if this is the case (pretty sure it is as you're the only one affected)
Quote from: Gandalf;281526may take a while as if it's flagged your IP up as a possible spam source it could take a bit of time to come off the list. I'll do some further checking to see if this is the case (pretty sure it is as you're the only one affected)
Whatever was the problem, still seems to be a problem Gandy :sad:
can you create a new registered user please and see if it's a user issue or possibly your isp issue?
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Gandy may well say this is pointless, but it'll keep you busy :)
Thanks
I'm certain it's the spam module that does not like your IP address for some reason. However all of your posts are being submitted as 'not spam' so it will learn (according to their FAQ anyway) http://akismet.com/faq/
Looking at your IP, it's been the same for a while so I guess you're on a static IP.
ok, scratch that. Your IP is dynamic. I've done some checks and the current IP you have is listed in some block lists so this could be why our anti-spam service is picking up your posts.
When was the last time you rebooted your router? As dynamic IP's are usually refreshed then. May be worth a shot, but if you get assigned the same IP it'd be worth checking to see if Virgin can allocate you a different one to see if the problem goes away.
I'm 99% certain it is IP related as you are the only user suffering this problem.
No idea when the last time was, I did a renew & refresh type thing earlier after reading your ealier post, but i'll give it a off/on & see what happens, unless this posts fine, then i'll leave it.....
Quote from: RizZy;282056No idea when the last time was, I did a renew & refresh type thing earlier after reading your ealier post, but i'll give it a off/on & see what happens, unless this posts fine, then i'll leave it.....
Whatever weirdness is going on is still happening, just thought i'd say :g:
Just thought I'd try & post from work & see what happens.......
ok, I think it's your name. I believe that you've been blacklisted on akismet.
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/06/is-akismet-wrongly-blocking-your-not-spam-blog-comments/
I'll contact them to see if your name is blacklisted and if so, to remove it.
I'm not sure, but I just posted something & it went straight through, so, if this works alright, I should be good again......
edit = w00t
Quote from: RizZy;282921I'm not sure, but I just posted something & it went straight through, so, if this works alright, I should be good again......
edit = w00t
At last :D
Sorry it took so long to get sorted, Riz, but good work by Gandy in tracking down the problem and getting it fixed :thumb:
Yep, well done Gandy.
Ok it was a permission issue. Only moderators could vote in the forum New Technology Inventions, I took the liberty to change that to registered users. So now it should be solved
Quote from: Litcedia73;296385Ok it was a permission issue. Only moderators could vote in the forum New Technology Inventions, I took the liberty to change that to registered users. So now it should be solved
Huh? Who? :g:
Quote from: Jabbs;296390Huh? Who? :g:
Beats me. :g:
Common spam tactic now. Spammer makes a seemingly legitimate post, then once they've been seen to be a member of a forum the account details get passed to the spam bots.
Another trick is to join the forum and post nothing. However when you check their profile their personal website links to some porn, Viagra etc site. I'm not entirely sure how it works but I think the idea is to simply leave the members Id in the database in the hope that search engines spider it and boost the website up their listings or something? Hence I tend to take a look through the newly registered members and ban any zero posters with pron sites as their personal web pages.