Post Flooding Detected?

[JoshuaBixby]

So, what is up with the following error?

I get having some form of flood protection, but more than 1 unique message in an hour!

[DanPatterson]

I got that too when I tried to past a link that had "GeoNet" in the link."

"Me thinks" the spam filter might be a little tightly wound 

[Anonymous User]

We do have flood controls but the error message there it is not correct to the level it's set to and it does allow a much higher amount of unique messages in a 1 hour window than just one. We'll get this update made to the error text and deployed. 

Can I ask what you were working on prior to seeing that message display? The intended experience is that the flood controls kick in for messages when:

Controls number of posts with the same subject (regardless of member) that are allowed over a specified time period. This limits are based on a 1 hour window. 

If you are experiencing something different to this then I'd like to get more details and report to our support team. Thanks

[DanPatterson]

I was editing a post because I got the warning that it didn't like some html thingy.

It underlined 3 dots, ie  . . .  (without the space).

I tried twice to fix it, then, it flagged GeoNet in a url that I tried to post.

PPS

their html editor, barks when you use

: ...  (dot, dot, dot)

or try to use  (shift - enter)  althought it isn't consistent on that in the post

So does it count "fixing posts" when it throws an html error?

[MichelleMathias]

Hi Joshua, Are you saving the same post multiple times within the hour? If so that is hitting the flood control (set to prevent spamming).

[JoshuaBixby]

Same situation as Dan, i.e., I went to submit a reply and it complained about some invalid HTML.  I went to preview the post with removed changes, it looked identical to what I originally had, but when I tried to post is refused.  The issue seemed tied to "Invalid HTML," although I don't know how invalid HTML is getting put into the reply when I am using the built-in editor.

This was the thread I was working in:  https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/splitting-data-in-an-attribute-table/m-p/1007709#M82...

[Anonymous User]

Thanks for the information on what you're seeing. We'll report this to support for investigation. 

[DanPatterson]

I do love the ability to edit thread headings easily 😂 

And the Related tags are very funny sometimes (ps... the link below is the first in the image)

Embarrassing Flood Damage found by two MVPs- The Esri Community