Why does the forum say “You are not human?” when I try to post to my polybook.

[Casey Wagner]

I’ve been getting this error when trying to post and it seems to eat the posts then.

Was I doing an action too fast? I had started to make the post a moment earlier and realized I wasn’t in my polybook but in a question thread, so I cancelled out and went to my polybook to post it. It rejected both attempts.
Weird. But understandable if there’s a post speed limit preventing spam.

[Wayne Dixon]

Hi Casey,

You have found one of the bugs in our system – which is part of the reason why we are moving to a newer platform in a few weeks (roughly).

I’m sorry for the troubles but do take some solace in the fact you are not alone.
Usually it just affects the admins for whatever strange reason….often I am left asking myself – “Hey wait, maybe I am not human…..how would I know?”
Then I stub my toe or something and I realise I’m 100% human.

The usual fix for this issue is just to wait and try again later.
It sucks, I know……all that time waiting while being anxious that you might stub your toe at any second.

[Casey Wagner]

Thanks for the answer 🙂 It’s not a big deal, I was curious more than anything. I figured something I was doing was triggering it so wanted to isolate it.

[Martin Bergwerf]

It usually triggers for me, when I write a really long and deep answer🤣

[Martin Bergwerf]

I found something that seems to work (but maybe it doesn’t always???).

Changing the text and trying again won’t work, once you’ve been flagged as possible bot.

But I can post an Image (screenshot), without any text. When that get’s accepted, I can go in and Edit the Post. Like I said, not sure if this always works, or if it works for everybody and you still lose the first response, but…

Well soon we’ll be transitioning to a new platform anyway and hopefully won’t be bothered  with something like this again.

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