Page can't be found message when answering forum topics; what's up?

[Wickersham Humble]

Occasionally, in the routine process of chiming in on forum topics sent to me, I get "Oops, that page can't be found" message, but no reason  given, etc.  Anyone know what's up with that?  Kinda' disconcerting, as it seems like the system is melting down at the edges.  Usually, over quite a number of years, it is absolutely reliable and one of the easiest to use -- great;  as I'm elder not too sharp at digital BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH... !  Anyone else having this problem?  Any diagnosis?

I saved my comment text, to try again.  Wick

[Ace-Garageguy]

It's been ongoing sporadically for a while.

The "reasons" have been explained as your posted text contains blacklisted words hackers supposedly use to subvert the site, but I've had the dreaded 404 occur multiple times after scrupulously scrubbing my text of all the naughtiness.

One mod said there "may be other words we don't know about".

Well then.

 

Edited Saturday at 10:55 PM by Ace-Garageguy

[89AKurt]

Hmm...... not seen that one.  But I'm in a farady cage, with the solar storm, I'm good. 🤥  Such glitches happened when I was on Fascistbook.

[Wickersham Humble]

 Nothing surprises old me anymore... 'been down so long, it's starting to look like up to me?"  I can't seem to get anything posted in other settings because of the so-called 'Community Standards' filter -- which is a good practice -- but deleting words one thinks of as offensive... surely doesn't lead one to understand just what they're sensitive about; and sometimes it posts anyway!  Wick, the Perpetually Confused

[peteski]

It is not about offense words - those get automatically censored, replaced with "blah, blah, blah". It is about what in my opinion is terrible software design where including words which can be used as a database command language will cause that weird effect you experienced. Instead of giving an informative error about the forbidden words, the forum software just pukes. There are multiple threads in this section of the forum. with more  details about this "problem" .

EDIT: actually I was going to post few links  to those threads related to the problem (some were fairly recent) but they all seem to have disappeared. I found some older thread and here is some useful info from Dave:

 

Edited 12 hours ago by peteski