ThinkDigit Forum - bugs, suggestions etc.

[skeletor]

I am facing the 10 char problem again. It has been a few days since I have been logged in though. This time I also tried clearing cookies; it didn't work.

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[Faun]

oh lord, spammers are thriving by the grace of hoofed devil !

 

[skeletor]

Applying Punitive action to a spammer i.e. Deleting all his posts at once takes a lot of time and I face MySQL errors while doing it sometimes.

 

[tarey_g]

^^great, heaven for spammers when users are facing difficulties in moderation.

 

[testauthorised]

testing in chrome

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testing in ie

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finally i got the error in IE 8, will look into it now and try and figure it out...

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testing a quick fix

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seems to have worked, request members to confirm...

 

[Raaabo]

Testing in opera, which was working anyway, but testing to make sure not broken something for other browsers when attempting to fix for IE...

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Hmm, Ajax for quick reply seems to have been broken some time ago though... will look into that as well...

 

[Gauravs90]

Testing if it's working

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its working for me now on firefox

 

[Zangetsu]

I m getting this 10chars error in firefox....but in quick reply it is posting...
even this message is posted from quick reply.

 

[azaad_shri75]

its more than 2 weeks, am not able to start a thread because of 10 character bug, when it will be fixed

 

[arian29]

I keep gettin this message>>> The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters. , what ever amount of words i type i cant post . its happenning in hardware QnA section

 

[topgear]

Today morning got two types of errors :

1 : Database error
2 : Could not connect to the remote server

 

[RBX]

I've been trying to submit a thread in ISP Discussions section with body of quite a few lines and this is what I'm getting -

" 1. The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters."

The body contains 1103 characters, so I have no idea on how to overcome this message.

EDIT: Looks like this kind of error has already been discussed here.

 

[Zangetsu]

Is the 10 chars bug solved or not???

Note: I have obeserved that the 10chars bug is happening frm fireox & not from
Opera 10

 

[Raaabo]

Please test and tell me if this problem continues... Please empty ALL browser caches and cookies before doing so. I've switched back to the legacy vertical postbit top see if that helps.

 

[skeletor]

ok thats better.

But is there anyway of preventing these spambots to register at all? I mean 90% of the new users registering on the forum are bots.

 

[Raaabo]

Ok let me look into that... if they're humans registering and then giving login info to bots, or actual humans posting and spamming, then no I can't do anything. Something tells me we'd have 8726340857613456 users if automated bots had found a way through our defenses... these are humans.

 

[skeletor]

well, there are humans too but most are automated bots from what it seems as they all spam in the same way and return everytime after getting banned. Humans don't return immediately.

For example, you see this guy: Digit Technology Discussion Forum - Tech Discussion Forums in India - View Profile: nopq263 I had banned him many days ago and I see him always trying to reply to the same thread when I check "Who's online."

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[Ronnie11]

been trying to open a new thread in hardware q & a & all it comes is that 10 character or more error even though it was wayyyy more...but able to reply via quick reply...the annoying part is when i have written a huge post for help,after submitting everything gets wiped out except the thread name..it is very annoying...been trying this for the past 15min....cleared my cookies/history...everything..yet the prob..tried both on ie & FF..though i use FF more...

 

[skeletor]

^^ well...try Opera. Opera browser | Faster & safer internet | Free download Thats the only thing I can suggest.

Send me the content of your post if it's urgent. I'd create a thread for you.

 

[Zangetsu]

been trying to open a new thread in hardware q & a & all it comes is that 10 character or more error even though it was wayyyy more...but able to reply via quick reply...the annoying part is when i have written a huge post for help,after submitting everything gets wiped out except the thread name..it is very annoying...been trying this for the past 15min....cleared my cookies/history...everything..yet the prob..tried both on ie & FF..though i use FF more...

which browser u r using....
try opera 10