Diggsblues
1446 posts
Jul 21, 2014
1:29 PM
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Some one has been removing my response to a message in Hotel block closed at SPAH. My response was withing the forum rules
and I feel this is wrong.
Emile
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nacoran
7870 posts
Jul 21, 2014
1:42 PM
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Diggs, the 'someone' is just the automated spam filter. We have no control over it in real time, but we make sure to go the the spam folder and restore all the messages at least once a day. I did it earlier, but after seeing your post I went back, and sure enough there were a bunch of your posts there. I have restored them. We'll always let you know if one of us manually removes a post (which almost never happens, the only time I can remember doing it myself is when there was a problem with a bunch of HTML in the practice your forum skills thread.)
Generally speaking, the auto-spam filter catches short links with information that sounds a bit like an ad, lots of links or some random keywords that we are always trying to figure out. And like I said, there is no way to turn the silly thing off. We would in a heartbeat. It catches anywhere from a couple to a dozen posts a day, and on average, catches less than one actual spam post per month.
Sorry about the inconvenience. Even Adam has been caught by the filter a couple times. :)
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JustFuya
339 posts
Jul 21, 2014
4:34 PM
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I have come to understand Frank's running joke with lyrics. Stated simply, the filter does not like one sentence posts. I've been hung up there but have learned to be patient. I've been meaning to test the filter with a sentence ending with 2 periods.. Sometimes I don't feel so talky and I am punished for that.
Not to say this forum is not ©ensored. There is a heavy commercial wave here. It's not a bad thing but it does exist.
@Diggs - I hope your tests give you a pass on worry.
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STME58
993 posts
Jul 21, 2014
4:59 PM
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In my case it seems like after getting so many messages caught by the spam filter, it decided I was a bad actor and will no longer let me onto the site from my home network. I can go to work, Starbucks or McDonald's etc and read MBH but no longer can I access from home, unless I VPN in to my work site.
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JustFuya
340 posts
Jul 21, 2014
5:43 PM
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@STME - Here's a message I got when I tried entering via the IP address:
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We're sorry
You must enter this website through its domain name and not its IP address.
This is because this IP address hosts a number of different websites. Each website is identified by its domain name and not its IP address.
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From this I gather that they have their own DNS server. I tried to ping and it was having nothing to do with that. It's a tight system and good on them. What is the error message?
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nacoran
7875 posts
Jul 23, 2014
11:05 AM
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If you are having problems accessing the site, shoot me an email (not sure I like the line break on that one...) They've got a new little program that you can run that gives them the info they need to get you unblocked.
edit- okay, the line break is better in the actual post. In the posting box it was right after 'shoot me'. :)
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