Tearing my hair out

[gillo]

I have a new laptop, which is very cool. I don't know if that is why LJ is messing me about, but I have just spent well over an hour trying to persuade it to accept tonight's su_herald post. The reason? Apparently any post with "h t tp : //" in it (without the spaces, obvs) is banned because it is associated with spam.

Client error: Sorry, there is a

Comments

[gillo]

Trying this:

Fear, Itself by yetanotherbuffyblog

[gillo]

So that posted in the comments.

[rbfvid]

A lot of author links in your post are messed up (http://%20bradduke.tumblr.com/, http://su-herald.dreamwidth.org/yetanotherbuffyblog.tumblr.com and many others), that's most likely the source of spam alert.

[gillo]

Why did it post fine on DW and Tumblr then?

I give up. I really have to go to bed - very long drive in the morning. Thanks for trying.

[rbfvid]

Because LJ, DW and Tumblr react on broken links differently.
DW and Tumblr are "ok, whatever, not our problem" and accept the post. While LJ is "Why does anyone need two domains in one link? That smells fishy. SPAAAAM ALERT!!!"
Just correct broken author links (all but the first three are broken) and see what it does.

[snogged]

That sounds very frustrating.

[cmcmck]

OFFS LJ!

[curiouswombat]

Hurrah for new laptop. But when it comes to posting links, I think it is more you/new tech than LJ - I was happily posting links on my journal as usual yesterday evening with no problem.

[gillo]

I fear you may be right. Yesterday was not a good day for me, and four hours fighting this thing put the cap on it.

:-(