"Forbidden" Errors (due to "spam" words)

[Carol the Dabbler]

Nope, PMs are monitored as well -- which is how T.o.b.y and Martina first realized what was causing this phenomenon to occur.

 

But if you could misspell the new words you're trying to edit in, Shadow, you can probably post them right here and we'll see if we can figure out what's triggering the objection.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Let me see if this works:  V-i-a-g-r-a  D-o-m-i-n-a-t-r-i-x  P-o-k-e-r 

 

Good!  So there's a technique you can use, Shadow, just while we're trying to figure this out.

 

[Shadow Dweller]

That's one of the strange things, I only need to hit the Edit button then Submit without changing anything then it is the 'error.......'

[Carol the Dabbler]

OK, we've seen that before -- it seems to occur if the naughty-word list has been expanded since you originally posted your comments.

 

I'll try posting some of those phrases and see what happens!

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Molly >> "A woman dated a serial killer and came out of the relationship remarkably unscathed, though nobody ever notices how that’s actually not a normal response."

And what is the normal response? If any, I applause at her resilience. Once a relationship ended then it is over, thank you for the fun. lol

 

 

No problem!      Are you getting this exact error message?

 

 

 

Forbidden

 

You don't have permission to access /forum/index.php on this server.

 

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

[Shadow Dweller]

Exactly like that

[Carol the Dabbler]

This is truly weird.  I tried posting both "v1agra" (properly spelt) and your post as a non-mod, and the latter still worked just fine even though the former did not.  I even tried "editing" your problem post (without changing anything), and it resubmitted just fine.

 

Weirdest thing is that you just posted that today.  Do you recall how much time elapsed between your original post and your first attempt to edit it?

 

[Shadow Dweller]

Less than three minutes apart from the original submitting and editing attempt.

[Arcadia]

Thanks for stepping in, Carol, I had to take off. Plus I probably wasn't going to be very useful anyway.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Not sure I've been much help either!

 

Shadow, now that I've "edited" and replaced your problem post, could you try again -- just to see if my activity cleared the problem?

 

[Shadow Dweller]

Done (Edit, change nothing, Submit) and still the same problem.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Racking my brains.  Shadow, you live in a place where English is not the common language, correct?  Maybe the spam checker goes by what country you're in?  Do any of the words in that post mean something else in your language?

 

[Shadow Dweller]

Yes, I don't know, no.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Have you ever had this problem with any other posts on this forum?

 

[Shadow Dweller]

Not as far as I can remember.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Well -- let us know if it happens again.  Maybe then we can figure out what's going on.

 

Meanwhile, what changes would you like made in that post?  I can apparently edit it for you.

 

[Shadow Dweller]

Nothing significant, thanks for the help. I will post here again should the same anomaly happen again.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

So I just discovered that pok3ry when spelled correctly (replace the 3 with an e) is on the forbidden list.

[Caya]

Makes sense, because of potential spam for gambling websites. Thanks for finding out!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Well, Van Buren Supernova did tell us a while back that just pok3r was a forbidden word -- but with the y on the end, it sounds to me more like they're concerned about other kinds of suspicious activity (as in "jiggery pok3ry").  Or maybe I just have that sort of mind.  :D

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

It's probably one of those things where it detects sub words at least within reason.

[Carol the Dabbler]

The Forbidden Error strikes again (note: the spoiler describes a climactic episode of House):

 

Stupid system ate my post.  Trying again.

 

Yes, I saw that episode, and I noticed the parallel when I watched Sherlock.  While it didn't jump out at me (sorry...) when I watched TRF, it was really obvious when I watched HLV.

 

 

That episode with the jump is at the end of an arc when House's personal life is falling apart, and he heads to a hotel and goes back on the meds (after a fairly long dry spell) and hires a bunch of ladies of the evening. The parallels aren't absolute, but the first time I saw HLV, I immediately thought "Jeez, does every Holmes have to deal with abandonment issues with casual intimacy and substance abuse?"

 

 

Edited:

The system didn't like the fact that I was using the terms "s e x" and "d r u g s," so I had to modify the spoiler post above to get it to take the quote.  So that's why that particular comment from me reads like my maiden great aunt wrote it.

 

[Shadow Dweller]

:o

 

I can use the second word without censoring:

 

http://www.sherlockforum.com/forum/topic/167-word-association/page-224?do=findComment&comment=73432

[Arcadia]

Maybe it's the combination of the two words that's the problem? Like sex and drugs and rock'n'roll....

[Arcadia]

Or not. :P