Are other people having problems posting in Answers this afternoon?

[Rolig Loon]

I typed out a lengthy response in German just now and had it rejected because it contained umlauts. I have never had this problem before, and the OP obviously posted his question in German with umlauts. I then tried to post in English, and the software told me that my message could not be posted because it contained an ampersand (which it seems to be picking up from the HTML coding!). What is going on? EDIT: NOW it is rejecting a post because it has the numeral "five" in it!!

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Ditto.

I've been getting invalid character errors in my postings all afternoon. Semi-colon is outlawed now along with several rare Internet URL Address characters. Also, I've had to resort to cutting then pasting my resonse from here into a notepad session and then cutting and pasting that into the Comment Text area. Weird.

[MarigoldSpare]

Haha YES - I thought it was just me, so I tried to post on an alt, I tried different browsers, then I gave up.

Mine said it had an ampersand in it, but it didn't.

[Rolig Loon]

LL is evidently taking your complaint to heart and is trying out some anti-sport griefer tweaks, Karen. I have been editing the HTML code to get around it, but it is painful.

[Lindal Kidd]

yes it's happening to me too.  Apparently the number 1 is not allowed, nor is the ampersand.  Also I got a "post flooding" error message saying I had posted 1 time in 3600 seconds.

[Peggy Paperdoll]

If it gets that sports BS stuff fixed (or reduced), I'm for it. I'd rather put up with difficulties like certain characters being rejected than the page after page of spam we've been getting over the last couple months.

[KarenMichelle Lane]

OMG I was just thinking the same thing about the Sports Spam.

 

[Rolig Loon]

I just hope that the "certain characters" don't end up being ones that cripple us here, like the ampersand that's scattered all through the HTML.