403 Forbidden error

[Jason]

after a quick bit of research, it appears this is a very widespread issue that's been popping up all over the place since the 3.0.7 version of vb was released. the vb admin dudes suggest re-uploading all original non-image vb files (minus install.php of course) as a quick/temporary fix. other than that, it's something they're working on.

i imagine it's one of those super elusive bugs floating around in some obscure chunk of code.

[Ewan]

from the base.

[Ewan]

away from the base.

[Ewan]

fire away from the base.

[Ewan]

levi fire away from the base.

[Ewan]

One idea I've been thinking about but haven't come up with a way of making work is to create some other area that would attract levi

[Ewan]

Ok, my testing and experimentation has proved a failure.

Jason's answer seems the best then

[Kuukunen]

Yea I had the same problem at one point. Now I played around with it a bit. It seems they keys are the text " create" (notice the space before the word) and the word "from", you need other stuff too. So if you add space to the beginning of "create a from a" you have the shortest possible sentence that doesn't let it post. The a's can be anything and you can have it anywhere on your post, but if you have some non-letter and non-space characters in that string, it will post. Like I can say " create a. from a" or " create a from .a" All the spaces are needed too.