Hello forum friends and hope this message finds you all well and continuing to enjoy your birding adventures. After a long break from the forum and lovely off community catch ups with some of you I signed back in after 15 months but still hadn't posted up anything since 2022. Bizarrely, I received notification from RSPB that my account was flagged for spam despite the fact I hadn't even been on the community for a year and quarter ! I have heard that this has happened to others including Robbo and Alan where their accounts were falsely flagged and deleted so guessing this is some software glitch in the computer system causing problems. Feel a bit like the post office scandal being accused of something I am innocent of although nothing like the dreadful trauma that those poor post masters/mistresses suffered due to a computer software glitch.
I do hope to return at some stage but fear my account will be falsely deleted later today despite no wrong-doing LOL I have submitted an appeal upon receiving the first message from RSPB and they acknowledged receipt of that appeal. Subsequently, I have received a second message stating ..............
Dear HAZY:
A few days ago we emailed you about your user account. That message was to let you know your account was flagged as inappropriate. You have until 21 Jan 2024 9:23 PM to send us an appeal using this form. Note that if you don't appeal the abusive finding, your account will be permanently deleted on 21 Jan 2024 9:23 PM
I have tried using the form link again to re-submit but it says I have already submitted my appeal, hence I can do nothing but sit on "death row" waiting for my account to be terminated later today LOL.
This is what the form link takes me to: Thank you, your response has been submitted. Your appeal will be reviewed promptly. A decision will be sent to xxxxx@gmail.com
I have written an email to RSPB querying how I could be flagged up when I haven't been logged in for over 15 months and never posted anything that could be spam or abusive but I fear nobody is in the office or will see my email until tomorrow which is after the deadline ! To be honest, I am not unduly worried but you do need to be aware that with these weird glitches in the system it can happen to any of you as not sure what triggers these errors. Maybe it auto-generated the glitch when I signed back in a week or two ago after such a long time absent - who knows. !!
So do take care all of you and sorry if I am unable to get back on to the community to maybe start posting again. X
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Regards, Hazel
Replying to your post Hazy to see if it will make you visible x
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
I've been back and forth in emails with rspb today and they've been working on an error with was falsely flagging spam so this is a test to see if I can actually post a reply on here as up until now its been sending automated replies of impending doom. LOL. fingers crossed..............here goes. ............
Nope :( it is still falsely flagging
Well abra cadabara it worked!!!
It's even more strange that it was posted at 9.08am on 21st of January and I got the notification an hour ago of it just being posted
Perhaps they have worked finally Hazy is a keeper! Or the system has just added another glitch to it string of errors!!
Perhaps you could try replying again Hazel and perhaps it may just work..well we might see the reply next week or so lol
I wonder weather any old posts she made in 2022 which would be the year I started on this forum would apear
even though I know her I dont know her as well as others on here but if shes been away for as long as she says then that could well be one of the reasons why other than just me being brand new then. but that aside if this post has apeared and her comments are becoming visible could that mean any of the old posts on her profile might become visible if not becoms visable now then gradualy
Tigers comment says
Well it seems as moderation has allowed my post after seven days.
has this same thing thats happening to Hazy happened to Tiger aswell then?
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