Electronics

[Icegoddess]

I always get those if I copy text from a website and past in a post. However, today I got it when I simply responded to someone else's post. I just hit the post button again and it posts.

[cowboy sam]

I just had to hit the posts 3 times to get it to go through!

[Jk9]

Happened to me too.

[icezeus]

Hitting post again was not working for me. I tried numerous times on the book thread, and finally I just had to keep typing with no breaks and it accepted the post.

[hckynutjohn]

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@Tinkrbl44wrote:

I've had several comments come up with this message when trying to post. Nothing but words, not photos or whatnot.

Any idea what's happening?

@Tinkrbl44

Nope, but earlier today was getting it with every post. Had to hit POST again.

hckynut 🇺🇸

[gardenman]

For whatever reason, their site doesn't like paragraph breaks any longer. Hitting return and inserting *** (or something) then return, then the new paragraph works as I'll illustrate below.

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And there's a paragraph break of sorts. If you're typing a long post and want to break it up to make it more readable, that's the way to go for now.

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Someone running the forums changed something to label every post with a normal paragraph break in it as bad HTML and prevents the post.

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It doesn't have to be ***, it can be anything as long as there's something there. If they don't fix it soon, I'd suggest using $#%! (or whatever profanity stand-in you prefer) as the break to express our feeling about the operation of this site.

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Long posts are still possible and can be made readable with an extra step or two. It shouldn't have to be that way, but it is what it is.

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You may notice they've removed the "We heard you message." That could imply we're getting closer to the end of the forums again. I wouldn't be shocked to see them disappear in the new year.

[Tinkrbl44]

There are comments all over the place about this silly glitch. What I want to know is does anyone know what the problem is that would cause such a thing to happen? And has anyone at QVC said they are working on it? TIA for any update you have seen here!

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[gardenman]

What caused this? Their software has decided that paragraph breaks are no longer allowed. I suspect it was a simple error made when they updated the banned words list or something similar. Someone likely inadvertently inserted a paragraph break in the list and now the software won't let you use them. It could be something else, but that makes the most sense to me.

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I doubt if they're working on it. At least not yet. If it's something as simple as I think it is, fixing it would take minutes, at most. Just find where the paragraph break is now banned and unban it. Ta-da! Problem solved!

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How could they mistakenly add a paragraph break as a banned word or entry? Just hit "Enter" at the wrong time and then accept it and the paragraph break created by hitting enter could end up banned.

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Could it have been done intentionally? Possibly. Every byte of data costs the company some money. Granted, for a paragraph break the cost would be on the scale of a millionth of a dollar per paragraph break, but when multiplied by the number of paragraph breaks on a big forum, it could count up to a reasonable sum. A real penny-pincher could order the removal of paragraph breaks to save those few dollars. Which we then offset by using substitutes for paragraph breaks that may consume still more data costing them even more.

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My suspicion is this was just a stupid mistake and they'll eventually get around to fixing it. Unless they just kill off the forums completely, which is very possible. You will notice they removed the "We heard you..." statement that's been up since the last attempted closedown.

[beach-mom]

Thanks @gardenman! I've been away for a while but came back to this frustrating scenario! I called CS - chat wasn't working either- and she told me to "clear my cookies." I have to do THAT every time I leave a review. So I don't. *******************

Your suggestion helped! ********** It's SO frustrating!

[Drewps5co0tt]

Yup, whoever is running this website/forums have no clue what they are doing and should be F I R E D!  Nobody here knows what is going on and QVC doesn't seem to give two squats about it.  I have reported all of these issues to upper management and they don't do anything about it (this was months ago).