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Merging section is basically a huge, drastic change, and is something that's untestable except in prod.

And there won't be a way to revert.

SEO is the biggest problem with this. Even if we handled all the redirects, there is no telling what Google and all the SEO engines will do with the changes, and it's very likely they just decide to unlist a lot of our content. Which... is not good.

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Actually the problem even extends to changing my avatar. Out of habit I view my own profile to see how it looks to other people when I come online, so I can change details as needed and then reference them in my posts if I want. If I don't view my or anyone's profile, I can't change my avatar.

Can you please clear your site data (cookies and all that), and let us know if that helps?

Poof. It's now unpinned.

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HTTP Code: 403
Status Text: error
Address: https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/seeds/3181359-endless-plains-in-my-minecraft-survival-world
Date: Fri Jun 30 2023 07:48:58 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Request: POST /comments/create-14-3181359

- I had to do the trick with checking someone's profile in order to activate the cloudflare security check thing or whatnot. Almost as if we get silently logged out upon not being online.

Passed this on.

Youtube does that by JS stuff and cookies I believes, it's "dynamically" loading the data

The way MCF works is that once the post is "made", it just updates the HTML directly, there is no real-time "feed" for it to know there was actually a change.

Are you using your browser's "undo my closing of a tab"? I believe that just uses your cache, and it's easily possible that it's not tracking additional calls that are made. Comments are just calls back to the server, and then the UI adding to it. It's not "refreshing" on your end. But, what browser?

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I'm still unable to post images whatsover, also.

They have made rule changes so you should be able to post them now.

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I'm still unable to post images whatsover, also.

Same for you, can you start with clearing cookies? I will pass this on to the sysadmins to review as well.

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I'm surprised nobody has reported any further issues because I'm getting really pissed off at having to constantly deal with forbidden messages and open up a profile almost every time I try to post, or just preview something, as I usually do several times to make sure the formatting is correct (maybe the issue is a rate limit?). Why even have whatever is causing this? Only if there is a blacklisted link should it happen and that is not the case (some don't even have links, and they always pass if I open a profile to trigger the security check).

Profiles are being a higher security setting, because they generate heavier calls. Visiting too many of them too fast results in some blocks.

Their suggestion is to start with clearing your cookies for the site and logging back in.

Let me pass that on to the sysadmins to review the settings for those actions.

A change has been made to try to fix this. Please let me know if you continue to see it.

What it sounds like is happening is that your post is triggering Cloudflare's security (which looks at the contents and would stop posts if it thinks it's bad). It's... not a great system, and is just trial and error to find what triggers it.

I can tell you that replying won't do anything, because they are just posting and leave, just like bots. The issue as well is that the spam filter which is supposed to help alleviate these posts isn't flagging them yet, and we don't have much dev time to work out better solutions. This is also why we turned off comments on the news posts, because it was bad there too.

If you report them, we can at least "purge" the DMs from any account that got them.

But no, there is not a way to turn off DMs or comments on a profile. (DMs are actually how warnings are sent, so disabling it would prevent you from seeing them).

2 points means you were warned twice about the rules. In a lot of circles, it'd be 1 point is 1 day. We pushed it so that we don't immediately ban you, but only when you got warned twice about the rules.

We found that incremental doesn't seem to actually work as well as you'd think. If you're getting warned repeatedly, then incrementing the ban by 1 day is basically not changing anything, and is just the same ban.

We also found that usually, by the point where you have many points like that (which isn't common really), the concern for the rules is pretty... gone and so 5 day bans are nothing. Having it be 2 weeks is much more impactful.

We do also try to use "informal" warnings, which is 0 point, so by the time that the bans actually get involved, you *probably* were warned twice before, and so that's now 3 times you were told to read rules. If you're still not following them, then we find 3 day bans actually do better there.

If the rules are not friendly, then we'd take suggestions on improving them. We've pruned them down as much as we can without losing intent and usually most sections don't have much else.

You will need to contact support to have names changed and accounts deleted.

You will need to explain to them what name you want your account to have. If you want the old date joined, they will simply move the name to this account, and delete the new account.