Has anyone els got this enter the #'s before proceding?
Happens about every other time I try to post something?

Nope. I think they're watching you.

CW

M6RV6 wrote:Has anyone els got this enter the #'s before proceding?
Happens about every other time I try to post something?

Yeah, I've been getting it regularly on a PC, then yesterday, it popped up when I tried to post from an IPad. I pinged Zzz on it and he did some magic stuff.

So, this is a test to see if the fix works.......putting my tin foil hat on now.......

MTV

mtv wrote:

M6RV6 wrote:Has anyone els got this enter the #'s before proceding?
Happens about every other time I try to post something?

Yeah, I've been getting it regularly on a PC, then yesterday, it popped up when I tried to post from an IPad. I pinged Zzz on it and he did some magic stuff.

So, this is a test to see if the fix works.......putting my tin foil hat on now.......

MTV

And........drum roll......it worked.

MTV

mtv wrote:

mtv wrote:

M6RV6 wrote:Has anyone els got this enter the #'s before proceding?
Happens about every other time I try to post something?

Yeah, I've been getting it regularly on a PC, then yesterday, it popped up when I tried to post from an IPad. I pinged Zzz on it and he did some magic stuff.

So, this is a test to see if the fix works.......putting my tin foil hat on now.......

MTV

And........drum roll......it worked.

MTV

And, from the PC.....

MTV

It was still there this AM?? On MacBook with chrome?

Our firewall thinks you're a hacker/bot/bad guy for some reason.

Anyone else see this ever? Periodically? Often?

I have had it a few times. Using PC with Firefox.

At first I just figured it was my computer or browser setting things off. It was only happening on a PC. Then it started happening on an I Pad too, only there, it wouldn't allow me to post, even if I entered the "magic password"....

Fixed now, Zane, so whatever you did worked.

MTV

I see it occasionally on my PC. Not too often, maybe once a week.

Zzz wrote:Our firewall thinks you're a hacker/bot/bad guy for some reason.

Anyone else see this ever? Periodically? Often?

Guess I can't fool it!!!

It's happened to me a number of times, most recently earlier today. No big deal, except sometimes it drops back to the "post" page deleting whatever I had typed. Very fucking annoying if it was kinda lengthy and you're a huntin' pecker kinda typist like I am. There is an ATTENTION! placard below the posting area that says "you should highlight and copy your text to the clipboard before submitting in case something goes wrong", but since I don't know notheeng about no steenking clipboard I don't do it. But I have lost some would-be posts...maybe it's a timing-out kind of thing? (damn computers, I hate em)

We were getting hammered so hard by baddie traffic a couple weeks ago-- to the point that it would crash the server-- that I tightened up some of the firewall rules. I've relaxed them again today. Let me know if you still see the challenges.

Sometimes just turning on the computer is a challenge....but thanks Zane.
Is there a sticky or post somewhere 'splaining this "clipboard" business?
FWIW the problem I've had with the site going back to the original "post" page (deleting what I'd so laboriously typed) when I click submit seems to happen (or more often anyway) when I use the "reply with quote" option.

Zzz wrote:Our firewall thinks you're a hacker/bot/bad guy for some reason.

Anyone else see this ever? Periodically? Often?

Has started happening a lot in the last two week. But only when I am posting from work, which of course has some funny group IP with a whole pile of users on it...

I think the moose antlers were on the same wave as the hackers.
Maybe horny hackers!
T

hotrod180 wrote:Is there a sticky or post somewhere 'splaining this "clipboard" business?

The clipboard is the term for that special invisible place in memory where things go when you copy them (CTRL + C). It's what gets pasted when you CTRL + V.

Here's an illustration of the RAM required for the clipboard:

Zzz wrote:Our firewall thinks you're a hacker/bot/bad guy for some reason.

Anyone else see this ever? Periodically? Often?

I see it every once in a while, but I'm logging in and posting from different points in Europe and the Pacific from time to time. Having said that, the last time I saw it was about 4 days ago on my iPad on my home network. **shrug**

Have never seen it before. Saw it twice today.