Unable to access reporting function. It says “name is X characters too long”
Still unable to flag spam posts. Anyone look into this yet?
^^^ This! Huge problem - please acknowledge . . . and get it FIXED!
I can’t reproduce this, flagging seems to work OK. Does it happen all the time, or just occasionally? Any particular forum? Thanks.
It happened to me occasionally. Sometimes I get that message and sometimes I don’t.
This is a known problem. It’s when it’s a wall of spam (like spamming links or spam sites) that you can’t report because there’s too many characters.
I believe it was ML that previously suggested that you post something and report your post explaining the situation.
@Roger_Dooley - I tried to report [this</a> post](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1659937-dorm-rent-just-decreased-but-we-signed-lease-before-decrease-at-a-higher-rate-can-anything-be-done.html]this”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1659937-dorm-rent-just-decreased-but-we-signed-lease-before-decrease-at-a-higher-rate-can-anything-be-done.html) in the Parents’ Forum both earlier today and again just now. Got the following error message both times:
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Name is 23 characters too long.<a href=“The%20post%20wasn%E2%80%99t%20spam,%20by%20the%20way,%20just%20posted%20in%20the%20wrong%20forum.”>/quote</a> Never had this issue previously.
I bet it’s because the name of the thread is so long. I brought it to the attention of the administrators just now.
We’ve been able to reproduce the issue, and have opened a high priority ticket for a fix. We’re working to get it corrected as quickly as possible. Thanks for reporting the issue and supplying details, all!
I ried to flag the below post as being in the wrong forum and also got the 23 characters too long message.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1670135-is-it-hard-to-get-into-american-boarding-schools-if-i-m-international-and-applying-for-11th-grade.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1670135-is-it-hard-to-get-into-american-boarding-schools-if-i-m-international-and-applying-for-11th-grade.html#latest</a>
That is so odd! I just flagged the same post and got no error message at all!