Security restrictions?

Premier_2

I'm not sure if it is just me, but there appears to be some security restrictions preventing me from using the forum as per usual at present.

1. I recently had an issue trying to post a 'quick reply' in a thread. The error message cited a missing security token as the reason.
I posted in the end using the post reply button instead.
(a message has been sent to the administrator about this as per the request in the error message)

2. I can't access the linked thread to discuss this recent MSE news article
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/loans/2010/10/oft-kills-debt-write-off-industry?utm_source=forum&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=box

Get a permission denied message, similar to a thread having being removed.
As this news item was only posted today, and it's now been available for several hours, why is the thread still not available?

fermi

Premier wrote: »

2. I can't access the linked thread to discuss this recent MSE news article
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/loans/2010/10/oft-kills-debt-write-off-industry?utm_source=forum&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=box

Get a permission denied message, similar to a thread having being removed.
As this news item was only posted today, and it's now been available for several hours, why is the thread still not available?

The first post of the thread is probably still being written/revised by the MSE team.

Although it technically exists, until it is finished it won't be placed in/moved to a public area yet. Hence you getting an error about you not having permission to view it.

I get the same error BTW.

Premier_2

Thanks fermi.

Yeah, I had considered that when I first spotted the news item (dated today) over 3 hours ago, hence why I left it a while.

But thinking about it again, what was MSE Guy doing creating news articles in the early hours of Saturday morning? :eek:
And moreover, even if he was in the office at silly o'clock this morning, I suspect other team members were not hence why the thread is not not currently available.

Thanks for confirming it's not just me. I was starting to get paranoid there. Perhaps the two issues I posted about are not connected, just one of those coincidences.

(Btw, if the tech team see this, I was using the current, latest forum layout and IE8 when I got the missing security token error on the other issue - not sure if that is relevent/helps)

fermi

Premier wrote: »

Thanks fermi.



Yeah, I had considered that when I first spotted the news item (dated today) over 3 hours ago, hence why I left it a while.



But thinking about it again, what was MSE Guy doing creating news articles in the early hours of Saturday morning?

And moreover, even if he was in the office at silly o'clock this morning, I suspect other team members were not hence why the thread is not not currently available.

Well..............

The OFT announcement that the article was based on was supposed to come out by the end of this week. But by late yesterday hadn't appeared yet.

HOWEVER, what was going to be in it was pretty much a "given", so I suspect that MSE Guy had pre-written most of the main site article in anticipation. Hence it going up quickly early this morning.

I don't now what the delay in posting the thread is? Maybe the person who was able to push the website change this morning wasn't someone who also had forum permissions to put the thread up officially as well?

fermi

By the way. Before I saw this, I had already posted my own thread on DFW regarding that.

See: New OFT Guidance on agreement requests under s77-79 of the Consumer Credit Act

I wanted that to be more for info for DFWs etc, rather than a general discussion thread on the subject.

But for now the thread is open. :cool:

fermi

Premier wrote: »

2. I can't access the linked thread to discuss this recent MSE news article
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/loans/2010/10/oft-kills-debt-write-off-industry?utm_source=forum&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=box

Here ya go.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2794926

MSE Guy must be out of bed now.