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By aussiebill - 15 Years Ago
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Guys, I dont want to seem a whinger as i live for this site and content etc but after compiling story or article and hitting submit, a red message comes through saying it was not accepted by administrator or message content is not there! or words to that effect, either way, my article or reply has gone to heaven and have to try and recapture the vibe of the whole thing to do again, Frustrating is not the word.!!! It seems to happen if including reply to quote but also on new topic. I recall hoosier making similar comment. I usually save the message before hitting submit but didnt this morning and continueing update on that race car will have to be redone if i can recall the facts. regards bill.
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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Bill I too have had this problem and it is very frustrating but I have found that if it doesn't lock up and just comes back as lack of content or something I just add a little to the end. You may have noticed in some of my posts that it says "bla bla bla" at the end, that is all I had to do to get it accepted. Seems a little silly but it works for me.  bla bla bla
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By aussiebill - 15 Years Ago
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mctim64 (7/13/2010)
Bill I too have had this problem and it is very frustrating but I have found that if it doesn't lock up and just comes back as lack of content or something I just add a little to the end. You may have noticed in some of my posts that it says "bla bla bla" at the end, that is all I had to do to get it accepted. Seems a little silly but it works for me. bla bla bla Tim, if i get you right, when the RED message comes back and screen is blank, i,e original message has disappeared, you just type in additional words and it will go through? if so thats very handy, thank you for the hint. p.s. this is try #3 to reply to you. #1 freezee up, #2 went through but didnt appear on site, and lets see how this goes? bl bl bl
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By PF Arcand - 15 Years Ago
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This is by far my favorite site, great people on here, but.. frankly the freeze ups & access stalls are becoming a pain in the, you know where!
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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Bill, when I get the RED message my text is usually still there and that is when I add a few words and resubmit, I don't know about a blank page and as said before if it locks up you're lost. I love this site too but many times have beat my head against a wall after spending 15 -20 min. typing just to lose the text, the thought and the inspiration. You're not alone.
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By Ted - 15 Years Ago
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Wish I could help with this but it looks to be a code problem within the site and I suspect it’s Java Script related. I have the same issues with site lockups. When they do happen (which seems to be happening more frequently as of late) and if I was in the middle of posting, then I use the backup key to get back to the post that I was trying to submit, copy the text into the paste buffer, and then repaste it into a new post when the site unlocks itself or simply save it to a word processing program for later submission. Whereas the site would freeze up for ten minutes in the past, there are instances now where it locks up for twenty. Hope this helps.
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By Bob's 55 - 15 Years Ago
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Aussiebill, this happened numerous times to me also, I understand your frustration.
What I have done to alleviate some frustration is to write out the story or response in MS Word (or other word processor) first so I don’t lose it then copy and paste to the site.
Doesn’t help with the site problem, but helps with the beer consumption.
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By 55vickey - 15 Years Ago
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After my angst over that happening I now put my large posts on notebook, copy and paste, at my age trying to remember what I wrote is the most frustrating, just a band aide to the problem, but it works. Also just copying before posting should save it too. Gary
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By rgrove - 15 Years Ago
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When i copy & paste from word or email, I get an error saying that I "cant post just HTML or pictures". I have to copy to wordpad then paste, and for some reason it then usually accepts it. It is colossally frustrating. I have lost count of how many times my responses either lock up or get bounced out....
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By John Mummert - 15 Years Ago
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I was just looking at pictures of Ted's car under "Racing" Y-Blocks on track and one of the pictures was a pop-up for Cox Cable in Spanish! WTH?
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By 57FordPU - 15 Years Ago
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I too have had my share of frustrations, but I have mitigated the angst by hitting the "Post Reply" after starting the first paragraph and every so often if it is a long post. After posting each stage of the thread I return to add more with the "Edit" feature from the thread so that my original thoughts don't get erased. I even post pictures with the "Edit" feature. I would never use "Spell Check" without "Edit". Sometimes you might read one of my posts while I am in the middle of it and wonder why I didn't finish or why I spelled something poorly. I know that is a lot of work, but its better than beating the keyboard. I would love to copy and paste, but I have also met with some kind of "YOU CANNOT DO THAT" message.
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By Duck - 15 Years Ago
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For what it's worth, I've discovered cleaning out my cache (I use Firefox) seems to help with the accessing the site issue- does nothing in regard to the composing a reply SNAFU, however- /Duck
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By MarkMontereyBay - 15 Years Ago
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As mentioned before, when you are signed on, at the bottom right of the forum page is "Delete Forum Cookies". I use that regularly and it also seems to help.
Mark
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By awhtx - 15 Years Ago
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I can no longer access this website on my desktop computer. I can access it from my laptop. When I try on my desktop I get some message about enabling/disabling cookies. I can find nothing in Options about cookies. Anyone know what I need to do?
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By YellowWing - 15 Years Ago
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What browser are you using on the desktop computer? Mike
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By awhtx - 15 Years Ago
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Mozilla Firefox on both desktop and laptop.
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By MD55Bird - 15 Years Ago
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I feel your pain, I have been trying to post a reply for some time now. Not sure what I did to make it happen but it had become a quest! Wayne
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By YellowWing - 15 Years Ago
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I use Firefox also. Click on tools at the top of your browser then options. A new window will pop up. Click on privacy then select accept cookies from sites. That should do it. I also use IE when I post photos or links in my replies as I can't do so with my Firefox. Mike
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By GREENBIRD56 - 15 Years Ago
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My IT guy at work says he would guess it is an issue with the server set-up - there is a limit on how many users can be on at once. The system looks for an "inactive" site access - and cuts it off to allow others. Problem is....it doesn't seem to read typing time - answering posts, writing PM's etc as active use. So it "times out" while you are typing.....absolutely infuriating, right? If you type a post or PM ...right click on it to highlight what you've written- and choose "copy". Left click somewhere off the text to remove the highlight and then try "Post Reply". If it stops you - work your way back to the text box you were using - then choose "paste" (it should put your stuff back in there) - hit the post reply as soon as possible after re-entry. This method will work even if you have to re-enter your e-mail and pass code as a member.
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