Can't post reply: Spurious error "Post flooding detected"

[John R Ellis]

[This post contains formatting and embedded images that don't appear in email. View the post in your Web browser.]

I got this error when I tried to post a reply - I certainly haven't tried to post it more than once!

[Jef Bracke]

Hi

I replied to OP successfully, but now can't reply to a reply.

It says I need to correct the highlighted errors, but I don't see any.

I logged out & in again to see if that would work but still no luck.

Any ideas?

(I'm on Windows10 using Chrome.)

[John R Ellis]

...and again.

[John R Ellis]

Waited 12 hours, switched from Chrome to Safari, added 115 characters, still same error.  

[John R Ellis]

[This post contains formatting and embedded images that don't appear in email. View the post in your Web browser.]

...and again this morning, my second post of the day, with innocuous content:

[Kukurykus]

That wasn't me, but probably jefbr in Photoshop Scheduled Tasks

[coreyyy]

This may not be the problem you're having, but all I needed to do was clear the formatting. I had been copying and pasting from my Google Doc. Adobe forums doesn't allow "foreign" formatting, even though it shows up exactly the same. I doubt this is what you're doing, but I figured I'd let you know anyway. I hope you figure it out!

[John R Ellis]

Next time it happens, I'll give it a try, thanks.

[John R Ellis]

"all I needed to do was clear the formatting."

Unfortunately, the bug just struck me again, and my draft post didn't contain any formatting. :-<

[John R Ellis]

And again, my second post of the day:

[John R Ellis]

And again:

[Abambo]

Looks like a good old bug!

[John R Ellis]

Been mostly off-the-grid for a couple of weeks.  Happened again:

[John R Ellis]

And again:

[Abambo]

I got that error also by using a bad word filtered by by the Vice Squad. Using an alternate of that completly correct word in the given context solved the problem.

[John R Ellis]

How did you figure out which word?  I read my reply (screenshot above) and don't see anything suspicious.

[Brunettin]

This is annoying. I'm trying to reply to a person who is part of a conversation I'm in and suddenly I am stopped dad by this: "Correct the highlighted errors and try again. Post flooding detected (community received posts of a unique message more than 1 times within 3,600 seconds)"

a) there are no highlighted errors to correct.

b) how am I flooding anything if I'm jst replying to a nice, civil thread?

What up? I logged out and back in and that didn't help

[jane-e]

Hi @Brunettin 

It might be a case of the forum software acting up. Copy your Reply > Close the Browser > Try again. Post a screen shot of the error if it happens again so we can report it.

~ Jane

[Brunettin]

Yeah, I came back to it this morning and I was able to post again. Ghosts in the machine, I guess.

Thx!

alan b

[jane-e]

You're welcome, Alan. It's happened to all of us, but not too often, thankfully.

~ Jane

[Solo46]

Yes, it happens all the time. The new message box is sensitive to styled text. You can manually clean it with pasting it into a text-editor, and copy and paste from there.

[coreyyy]

Thank you! I had been copying and pasting from my Google Doc. I just put it in my url to clear the format and now it works 🙂

[c.pfaffenbichler]

It seems in my latest case it was about text proerties as per @Solo46 ’s advice but »post flooding« »more than 1 time in 3,600 seconds« seems like a noteworthily nonsensical description …