Cannot post - User ' ' is banned from posting.

Sadly, that has been an ongoing issue for months on the forum. The forum "engineers" have yet to determine a fix. Try logging out, then login again and all should be back to normal.

Usually that message means you've been timed out. Refresh the page and see if you're still logged in.

You are welcome. I have to agree, there has definitely been regression in some areas.... Missing replies, Bizarre spell-check and auto capitalization, missing pictures. The only common thread is that they have all been reported over, and over and over.

Did you have multiple pages of this site open at the same time?

You shouldn't get time out, that's just one of the times you'll get the message. Sometimes it's just a random glitch. The problem when you get the message if you have been timed out unless you refresh the page it will still appear as if you're logged in.

unless you refresh the page it will still appear as if you're logged in.

That's not enough for me. In Firefox at least, you need to clear the web browsers download cache.

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I thought they had fixed the af... thing. I got some other cryptic message about two weeks ago.

Apple cannot fix anything around these forums in a timely fashion -- six months to a year.

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Here is my ASC work flow...

1) I login.

2) Start an auto reloader.

Unless you do something every thirty minutes you get logged out. The forum software waits to tell you this as long as it can to keep you in suspense ;-) .

I use Firefox and ReloadEvery.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reloadevery/

You need to pick a page that will reload over time without stalling out. It's ASC. I've found my profile display the best to use. I get my Profile page after some logins. It's ASC. Change rccharles to your apple id.
https://discussions.apple.com/profile/rccharles?view=discussions

3) I open another window to do my normal ASC browsing.

4) I have a FireFox bookmark to goto the discussions that I have participated in. I've modified it to add on the content stuff.

turingtest2 recommends. Change rccharles to your apple id:

https://discussions.apple.com/profile/rccharles/content?filterID=participated~obj ecttype~objecttype%5Bthread%5D

5) Use turingtest2's generated links with the /content suffix as browser bookmark to the ASC discussions:

Site map of Communities and Categories

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2463

6) I run with Hiroto's modification to user content. This is the only way these forums are readable for me. How to adjust the format and layout of ASC Web Pages:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7501

7) Read and answer my old posts. I kind of memorize the time I last posted. ( It's way bad that apple eliminated the last poster to a thread. )

8) I use tabbed browsering. From a list of discussions, hold down the command key then click on the link. You get two tabs this way. The original window will keep where you have been.

Same thing happened to me a minute ago. Who is 'asfahan' anyway?

The error message is wrong since this should be a "you are not logged in" warning. I presume that a random name or account id was chosen to mock up the error message which should then have been updated to reflect the current user, but this didn't happen. 😕

Signing in on a fresh tab should allow you to submit the original post.

tt2

basilmir wrote:

... Who is 'asfahan' anyway?

Elementary, my dear Watson... the user appears to be a real person that was permanently banned in 2012

asfahan participated in one thread

and has no Activity - offending post(s) probably took place there

This misbehavior is clearly a JiveWare glitch that is hard to fix as it appears to be random in nature... if it could be repeatable it would be fixed already. Take it from an interactive developer of almost 20 years = me = that if you can do it in testing, you cant fix it.

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howdy tt2

heard your namesake mentioned repeatedly in the Tomorrow Prize Show yesterday

To put this to rest... it is NOT a function of log off (and therefore no erroneous messaging). It is an un-reproducable by ActionFlow repetition bug in the JiveWare, random in nature - is Always asfahan - therefore impossible to find and fix. If it stops, it may be just as random stopping as starting.

cheers

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The one post I can find hardly looks typical for those that are likely to get an active ban. 😉

Re: iPhone 5 can't send SMS - gets an error when sending SMS

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