>Why, when I navigate to https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11166146, is there no option to reply to that post
Yes I see that too. Weird.
Clicking on the author of that post (gelbukh) displays "Account locked" for me.
Could it be related to that?
Weirder, when I did it a while later I got:
Multiple nodes named "gelbukh" were drunk:
Aug 31, 2025 at 15:38 UTC gelbukh (user) by gelbukh
Apr 29, 2024 at 16:03 UTC gelbukh (locked_user) by gelbukh
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The user had already posted three times (a root question and two comments in its thread) before making the change to his home node which triggered the anti-spam mechanism. Rather than investigate or ask for intervention, he immediately created a new account with the same name. This is what led to the "multiple nodes drunk" situation.
I have (1) renamed the old, locked account out of the way, and (2) transferred ownership of its three nodes to the new account (gelbukh).
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The XML says it's "locked"
Couldn't check janitation or moderation history because they timed out.
If it wasn't caused by a moderator it's either an automatic anti-spam/abuse mechanism or a glitch because of the currently excessive load (or most likely a combination of both)
Anyway, you are long enough around here (20 years!), why don't you check all of this by yourself before using such a "deplorable" title???
And please don't use links that log us out.
UPDATE
Finally could have a look into moderation history aka displaytype=approvalhistory; ...
... some(thing/one) tried to move the node to a non-existent section. This kind of action is certainly a reason for locking.
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You are misinterpreting what you see there.
What this is showing is that the post has been approved into the SOPW section.
The way that's done is, two directional links — one for each direction — of type "perlquestion approved linktype"
are created, linking the node to the section and vice versa.
It's a crappy system, and tye was working on a replacement before he went on indefinite hiatus.
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I copied the reply link from this page and just edited the parent node number. And when I tried to load that address from my web browser, it said "This site can’t be reached perlmonks.com took too long to respond." then I hit reload, and after a few trials it finally loaded the site and shows this message:
"Replying to that node has been restricted." Huh?
I sent him a reply in private message. Now, of course, I have no idea if he will see that since I have never seen where the private message area is in this site. If anyone ever sent me a private message, I probably didn't see it and didn't get it. So, I don't know how useful that is. Anyway, I suggested to him to try to download the ImageMagick binaries from the internet. ImageMagick can be downloaded already compiled. The only difference is that when you use the binaries, you call them with system() from perl and use the arguments to tell ImageMagick what to do. It works flawlessly! And there's no need to compile anything! There's always a way around to get things done. ;) Ultimately, if he is so determined to work with images that he has to use "Magick.exe" then keep in mind that there are other image manipulation softwares out there as well, which may be more streamlined for the task. ImageMagick is a large 19MB executable, and I don't know how much of it is loaded into memory when the system executes this program. But it seems a bit too big for simple tasks.
I suggest renaming this post to "ImageMagick install question doesnt have a reply link" so that the person who asked can see that this post is in reply to his question. I had no idea that the two posts are related until I clicked on this. | [reply] |