False spammer accusation

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For some reason I have been blocked as a spammer (which I am not) in the PPR forum on the Oh Dear thread. In effect I am banned for no reason in that thread. I have managed to get a message through on another thread but I see no reason for this glitch. A direct e-mail to you has given no result. I tried to initiate an alternate thread to overcome the ban but that was blocked as well. I would appreciate some help.

This is the latest message I get when I try to post to the "Oh Dear thread.

Template->loadfile(): File modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/overall_header.tpl for handle overall_header is empty

I've discovered the problem. It has to do with a common non-objectionable term that caused an automatic rejection of the post. It is no longer a problem. Sorry to have bothered you.

there are terms that cause automatic rejection of a post?? I know there's a word filter, but I didn't know there were things that caused posts to be automatically rejected. Was it like something that caused some kind of encoding problem or something like that?

i'm getting that problem now too

"To prevent SPAM, your computer is specifically being denied access to this page. If you believe this is an error please send an email to alex@wrongplanet.net"

I was trying to post a reply in the "i feel trapped" forum. I thought my post (below) was that was making this happen, that it was unacceptable or something... I'll have to send him a PM in lieu of a reply to his thread then.

EDIT: OMG, I tried to PM that same post to the guy It was aimed at and I got the same error... banned from PMing him or posting in his threads?

even the mods are getting that error. What a pain!

Merle

I am also getting the same problem. When I tried to send someone a PM replying to their post from a thread because it's off topic, I get the forbidden page. When I tried to reply to the post in the thread, I got the same error but yet when I made another reply, I didn't get that error.

I just got one. I was trying to post a comment in General Autism. It was pretty bland, but it wasn't Spam .

I also got marked as a spammer and I don't know what word I posted in my message that flagged it. Is there a wordlist or something?

Hm. I got mine to post after changing stuff around. The trigger word was either sex, dating, or Warcraft.

Sex
Dating
Warcraft

WARCRAFT



SEX


DATING


(do they have to be on some other thread to trigger the error message?])

I don't think you'll get the spammer message for posting within a topic. I think it's if you start a topic.

Maybe it was Warcraft. This was on the adult board, so the filter probably kicked in and said "This shouldn't be here"

I got one when I posted a comment in General Autism. No trigger words were used that I can remember.