Random system glitches

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A topic for reporting odd behavior.

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Today I went to the top-level Regional group, because I like to catch up on things world-wide. HO displayed just one topic, then the “last visited” line with no new responses under it. A few minutes later, after reading new topics in Cooking and Culture, I went back to Regional, and found many new posts in the past 24 hours. Probably a one-off glitch, but worth reporting.

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It helps to specify what device & OS is being used when errors / glitches occur.

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Sure. Desktop computer running Ubuntu 20.04.6, Chrome 126.0.6478.182.

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I just got this, when posting an imgur link:

An error occurred: Body is too similar to what you recently posted

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If you are only posting an Imgur link and nothing much else, the software may think that the URL is quite similar to other IMGUR URL you posted in the past. Its to prevent users from posting very similar content repeatedly. That’s by design.

What else is in the post?

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I don’t remember where I was posting.

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I posted something, but I didn’t like it, so I scribbled. When I wrote its replacement, the system said it was too similar to something I’d just posted, so it didn’t recognize the scribble. I made a minor change to the new post, and it went through.

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“scribbled” equals “deleted”

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Thank you! I was wondering…

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yeah, WELL-speak (well.com) sometimes doesn’t translate well out in the wild.

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Neither did your comment, but I appreciate the effort :slight_smile:

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on The WELL to delete a post you click a link called “scribble”.

not gonna say anything about ‘slips’ & ‘pseuds’.

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Stan and I are members of The Well, an online community where there have been cooking and food discussions since at least when I joined in 1988. Lots of internet jargon got started there, like FYI, LOL, BTW, and IMHO, before spreading into Usenet and then Web forums. Some jargon didn’t expand beyond the Well, like “scribble” for delete, I guess.

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That’s alright. My interest in internet lingo is fairly limited :wink:

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My IT law students never knew what Usenet was. I had to explain …

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I just tried to post just “MWO?” in a response, and the system said “is that a complete sentence?” and refused to post. I changed it to “What is MWO?” and it worked.

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Can’t post something in all-caps as the only content

Maybe it was a safeguard to prevent people “yelling” at each other in all caps?

This happens regularly on the monthly / quarterly cook-along threads where nominations have to be in all-caps

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That’s an odd quirk.

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This might be by design:

I learned something about this platform. I posted:

I guess it was murgh something , with something being the prep.

I had the "something in angle brackets, and it was deleted:

It seems to ignore what’s in the angle brackets.