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rumbleseat Champion Author Winnipeg Posts:22,903 Points:3,526,800 Joined:Oct 2002	Message Posted: Dec 30, 2011 11:52:17 PM Ignore rumbleseat Report Abuse Have been trying to post on another member's whiteboard. Every time I hit submit, it takes me to the log-in page! Has anybody else had this problem? And no, it is not an Internet Explorer thing, I am using Opera. Everything else works, including making this post. [Edited by: rumbleseat at 12/31/2011 12:53:15 AM EST]

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Message Posted: Dec 30, 2011 11:52:17 PM

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Have been trying to post on another member's whiteboard. Every time I hit submit, it takes me to the log-in page!
Has anybody else had this problem?
And no, it is not an Internet Explorer thing, I am using Opera. Everything else works, including making this post.

[Edited by: rumbleseat at 12/31/2011 12:53:15 AM EST]

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bruin19MD Champion Author Maryland Posts:1,052 Points:161,510 Joined:Feb 2011	Message Posted: Apr 7, 2012 1:25:28 PM Ignore bruin19MD Report Abuse These computers can be tricky, can't they?
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:81,170 Points:3,249,620 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Jan 3, 2012 6:30:17 AM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse Let us know if you ever figure out the problem.
rumbleseat Champion Author Winnipeg Posts:22,903 Points:3,526,800 Joined:Oct 2002	Message Posted: Jan 3, 2012 12:25:02 AM Ignore rumbleseat Report Abuse Thanks for the input people, it appears as if it is a relatively isolated phenomenon.
rumbleseat Champion Author Winnipeg Posts:22,903 Points:3,526,800 Joined:Oct 2002	Message Posted: Jan 3, 2012 12:15:04 AM Ignore rumbleseat Report Abuse I won't bother re-installing Opera if the GasBuddy whiteboard is the only thing I have found where it just plain doesn't work for me. If it didn't work on GasBuddy period, or on any other sites I use it for, or if it were my only browser, that would be different, but I have 3 other browsers, and Opera works fine otherwise, so I am not going to take the time to re-install until the next update comes out. Heck, it could even be a glitch in our connection to the internet. We are on DSL, but go through a long distance repeater. Remember the pops and squeals we used to find on downloaded mp3s that were caused by servers that didn't know how to handle them properly? [Edited by: rumbleseat at 1/3/2012 1:16:33 AM EST]
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:81,170 Points:3,249,620 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Jan 2, 2012 9:09:40 AM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse Have you tried re-installing Opera?
rumbleseat Champion Author Winnipeg Posts:22,903 Points:3,526,800 Joined:Oct 2002	Message Posted: Jan 2, 2012 6:53:37 AM Ignore rumbleseat Report Abuse I asked if anybody else had seen the phenomenon. I had never seen it before updating to Opera 11.60 If nobody else has, I will assume whatever caused it is a strange glitch. I do have 3 other browsers where I have not observed it, posting to whiteboards works fine. Based on what I have seen, and what others have seen, I do not think it is worth worrying about, I just won't use Opera to post on whiteboards.
bytebug Champion Author Orange County Posts:26,356 Points:4,119,630 Joined:Oct 2001	Message Posted: Jan 1, 2012 5:55:16 PM Ignore bytebug Report Abuse The message I posted to your whiteboard was done with Opera 11.60 running on a 64-bit copy of Windows 7 SP 1.
rumbleseat Champion Author Winnipeg Posts:22,903 Points:3,526,800 Joined:Oct 2002	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2011 3:33:38 PM Ignore rumbleseat Report Abuse Just posted on 2 members whiteboards using IE. Posted on another using Firefox, and another using Chrome (the one I couldn't post on using Opera). No problems with those browswers found. It seems to be a new issue narrowed down to GB and Opera. Opera at one time rendered GB a little different, but has been fine for some time. This is why I mentioned I was using Opera, I haven't seen it with any other browser, and had never seen it with Opera, either, but I just updated Opera a few days ago.
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:81,170 Points:3,249,620 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2011 1:38:36 PM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse I've written to other whiteboards today with no trouble. I wonder if it could be rumbleseat is banned from writing to someones whiteboard that is creating the problem.
bytebug Champion Author Orange County Posts:26,356 Points:4,119,630 Joined:Oct 2001	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2011 11:50:55 AM Ignore bytebug Report Abuse I posted to your whiteboard, rumbleseat, with nary a problem.
ziyulu Champion Author Oklahoma City Posts:8,479 Points:1,598,875 Joined:Aug 2007	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2011 8:08:52 AM Ignore ziyulu Report Abuse My friend told me that happened when he was a new member--then he realized he had to earn 15,000 points to be able to post to a whiteboard.
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:81,170 Points:3,249,620 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2011 7:56:56 AM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse Never heard of that before nor have I had that trouble rumbleseat. Does it happen with any other browser or on another whiteboard?
WR-INC Champion Author Twin Cities Posts:39,465 Points:3,620,335 Joined:Dec 2002	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2011 5:51:59 AM Ignore WR-INC Report Abuse rumbleseat, Is it only one person's white board that's acting this way?
Scrapheap Champion Author Virginia Posts:14,525 Points:2,354,975 Joined:Sep 2006	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2011 4:13:28 AM Ignore Scrapheap Report Abuse The problem as described is inconsistent with settings that allow only buddies to post on a whiteboard. In that case, rumbleseat would not have a box to type into at all. It is also inconsistent with rumbleseat being blocked from writing on the whiteboard. In that case, rumbleseat would have a dialog box to type into but the post would be removed as soon as it was posted. I'm not sure what happens if he is on someones ignore list. [Edited by: Scrapheap at 12/31/2011 5:14:24 AM EST]
kwzh Champion Author San Jose Posts:20,631 Points:3,678,650 Joined:Jul 2001	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2011 3:14:45 AM Ignore kwzh Report Abuse Maybe the whiteboard in question is configured to allow only buddies to post there. Are your observations consistent with that hypothesis?