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PM system is broken
« on: September 11, 2013, 07:47 »

* Malek Deneith walks in, takes out a hammer and hammers in a nail in the wall. On that nail he hangs a sign with text written on it in what seems to be blood of some unfortunate small animal

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The ability to send forum PMs is broken. We captured and hold Guts/Gattsu hostage. Fix the PM system or we'll have him deported to be a protagonist in a generic, low budget harem anime.

* Malek Deneith ponders for a moment then nail a smaller parchment to the sign

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    Error 403
     
    We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /index.php?action=pm;sa=send2 on this server.
     
    You do not have permission to access this server. Before trying again, close your browser, run anti-virus and anti-spyware software and remove any viruses and spyware from your computer.
     
    Your technical support key is: 5949-40b0-b40c-8ddc
     
    You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.
     
    If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact the WEBMA5TER and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

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Re: PM system is broken
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2013, 08:43 »

Having no such problem at this moment...
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Re: PM system is broken
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2013, 09:00 »

Well it *didn't* work when I posted the above, I made sure to check. And I was getting the error since yesterday. Right now it does seem fixed - either KK saw the post and stealth-fixed it or it was something server-side and they happened to fix it, but it was broke before. Sure as sure.
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Re: PM system is broken
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2013, 09:02 »

Considering the fact that you'll be DMing me soon, all I can say is "Yep. Stealth-fix. Obviously." ;)
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Re: PM system is broken
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2013, 17:50 »

I've been getting that error periodically when posting normally.  If I posted more often I'd be really annoyed by it.
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Re: PM system is broken
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2013, 22:50 »

I have the same problem every now and then, and I definitely post more than
* thelaptop copies and pastes
yaflhdztioxo.

I usually refresh and it gets through.  I've heard that clearing your cookies/cache may help, but could just be some voodoo.

Edit: Aaand it just happened for this post.
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Re: PM system is broken
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2014, 12:02 »

This thing keeps on happening. I think I saw it three times in span of last week. Yes, refreshing helps but it'd be nice to see it fixed... do I need to form a mob of people with torches and pitchforks and knock on rimmon's door? (or door of whatever person inherited the role of maintenance-guy if he doesn't have it anymore)
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Re: PM system is broken
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2014, 02:32 »

Ever since I use waterfox, I get that 403 on the entire forum. I think it's some sort of a spam protection thing. The solution is to change your user agent string to something that is whitelisted, such as...

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0
In the case of firefox you can change that somewhere in about:config.

(dunno if this post will be useful since it only happens occasionally for you... but these are my 2 millibitcoins anyway)
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Re: PM system is broken
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2014, 04:07 »

Eh, we probably need to rouse a mob for this.

Spam situation isn't getting better either.  Two massive spammers got through the net and I spent a nice amount of time removing all their !@#$% posts.
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Re: PM system is broken
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2014, 10:51 »

Is it possible to configure the forum or some plugin to have it show captchas for new untrusted users who have < x posts?
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Re: PM system is broken
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2014, 19:24 »

Maybe but I'm not going to attempt it as 1. I probably have no clue what I am doing and will fumble  2. we have a sys-admin already and I would be trampling on his responsibilities.
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