I wrote a long answer, but it says

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A word you have used in your post has been banned from use. Please use a different word or contact the forum administrators.

How can I contact administrators or take a look at banned words list? I cant find the forbidden word by guessing.

Go to http://www.datafilehost.com/, upload a txt file of your text, put a link here and someone will take a look at it.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2010 07:11AM by panzer.

An answer have been already found here
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?1,110900

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siria
By interpolating I found that the banned word is 'sho­es'

Now this is fixed, with the last forum maintenanced work.
Banned message show word banned for english and spanish forum languages.

K-Meleon in Spanish

Words are in the ban list because someone abused them for spam attacks in the past.

Shoes was banned to stop a scripted attack advertising shoes. :mad:

If I had known that one wants to use it for a legitimate post about browsers I would have allowed it again when the spammer was gone.

If You need a word for legitimate post write a BBCode like Begin italics End italics into it

You can send moderators a mail. Click on link with a moderator's name will yield an address.
Currently active: alain, desga2 & me (AFAIK).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2010 11:10AM by guenter.

It really shows the banned word for you? To me it shows a huge red block of text, the whole post *scratch*

Just a thought, would it be possible to add a blank left to banned words, and a blank right of it as a second word?

For mailing mods, a little tip: jujuland (alain) is native french, desga2 is spanish, guenter is german ;-) But I guess the best would be to just post here publicly



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2010 11:22AM by siria.

guenter, thanks for explaining.

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siria
It really shows the banned word for you? To me it shows a huge red block of text, the whole post *scratch*

Try to post the word: shoes



Quote my text to see how I formate shoes - that helps even against itching head

Sonst? Waschen nicht kratzen

@ Win7, & пожалуйста to You (AFAIK / You are welcome).

p.s. Language Tip: AFAIK we also have an native speaker en-US moderator - jsnj

and disrupted en-UK & probably some more languages (swears in many languages)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2010 09:09PM by guenter.

Har Har
Okay if I post nothing but 'shoes', the forum will show me which the banned word is! LOL!
But what if a post is 100 lines long??? Okay, it's showing me the banned word too, just hidden in a haystack

ARGH - just seeing a post about harrrdy again, rrrr... no am not reading that now, too depressing :-( Can anyone please ban that pest from the web???



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2010 10:09PM by siria.

Yes, Forum does a string check - it will find the word/string in a long post.

Banning Hardy would be cool

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guenter

Banning Hardy would be cool

If you do that, Hardy would make a formal complaint to Dorian.

Who is Hardy?
guenter, ты знаешь русский или просто используешь переводчик?

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Win7
Who is Hardy?

сукинсyн = a nasty SOB, a less known software thief, that is all

http://youfailit.net/?p=49

http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?1,84013,page=1

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Win7
Who is Hardy?


guenter, ты знаешь русский или просто используешь переводчик?

Hardy is a software copyrights thief that once claimed he developed a K-Meleon version.

I still remember the sounds of a few easy Russian words like spassiba and ... from school but I must use the electronic perewodjik to translate them to Russian spelling.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/2010 08:21PM by guenter.

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guenter
Words are in the ban list because someone abused them for spam attacks in the past.

Shoes was banned to stop a scripted attack advertising shoes. :mad:

If I had known that one wants to use it for a legitimate post about browsers I would have allowed it again when the spammer was gone.

If You need a word for legitimate post write a BBCode like Begin italics End italics into it

You can send moderators a mail. Click on link with a moderator's name will yield an address.
Currently active: alain, desga2 & me (AFAIK).

I wonder if the shoe spammer has stopped spamming my favorite news sites. Even after lots of complaints and unsubscribes they wouldn't ban that crap.:mad:

Charlie

~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~

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caktus

I wonder if the shoe spammer has stopped spamming my favorite news sites. Even after lots of complaints and unsubscribes they wouldn't ban that crap.:mad:

No idea.

Perhaps the news forum's moderators did not think that shoes can be an un-word in their forum or thought it should not be banned - else their forum technology did not make the option to ban available?

Maybe we are just lucky


K-Meleon Forum has moderators from several countries - so they have possibly more than an even chance that one of them can think oblique enough and thus find a way.

I found the spam. & When I realized I cannot win against a script on an even speed competition I selected a word that was not likely to be used in a software forum normally or often .


Shoes was not an obvious candidate like other banned words such as viagra (& various medicines...), casino (& gambling words) or porn (& other words with sexual connotations), that are more likely candidates. But I tried it anyhow.

For each word a moderator must risk that a decent user that wants to use the word runs into trouble because he does not see the reason immediately. IMHO not all ppl take the problem as gracefully as Win7 or SoerenB (when they find out the reason).

Shoes was a lucky bet that got few complaints so far.

We normally or often talk about software not about news or clothing

p.s. I had a hard time to camouflage all banned words.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/07/2010 12:32AM by guenter.