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Unable to post, flooding error
Perhaps it gave a flood error because you tried to post the same text more than once, perhaps in multiple areas of Tech Community? Or perhaps it went into the automated review area, and it notified you and you continued to post?
If you continue to see these errors more frequently, let us know, but we are fairly focused on upgrading to the new version of the community software next week, so even if you are experiencing some sort of bug, it likely won't have any bearing on the experience then.
i was replying for the flooding error but now i got a new message " Authentication Failed.
Authentication Ticket Mismatched, failed authentication." i was trying to say that i only tried once then no failure displayed and then i kept getting the flooding error. At least please explain in detail what a flooding error means and also test on Edge. We are hardcore MS users here and we like using the MS products. I hope you fix all these issues in the new release. I stopped using the forums here as i could not always post and was wasting my time, Thank you.
- Authentication Ticket Mismatched is often a timeout error, meaning you've left a screen for a while and come back to it, and it may need to be refreshed before submitting (our system will auto-save your forum content).
Flooding typically means our system is trying to prevent spam attacks and our system has noticed too many posts from an individual user coming in a short period of time and so it puts an automatic stop to it. Please note that when you try to post again before the amount of time our system has indicated before posting again, the clock does restart.
We do test on all the browsers.
While we've noted your feedback, please note that we are currently upgrading to a new version of the community platform software next week, and that is our tech lead's primary concern, so I apologize that we aren't able to offer a more detailed explanation. I'll note this for our tech lead to take a look at once the upgrade is complete.- OK so the authentication error is probably another area you should check. I only replied as quickly as i finished the message to you. So that looks like another issue. As for the floodoing, I know now what it means but you need to say "flooding error, you have tried to post too many messages recently" something like that. Flooding error to a user at least from Europe, native english speaker or not means nothing. Thank you.
Hi panos2024b
I understand your frustration, but the reason for such strict rules is to stop the tide of spam!
The lack of detailed explanations is justified, because spammers immediately use it for further attacks,
Since it is an automatic system, so the parameters are set by default and this is not always perfect.