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I did some more research, and that seems to be a cached offline page: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/page-could-not-be-loaded.193001/
Check out post 10 in that thread for a developer chiming in.
From what I've seen, that is almost always something that happens when the page doesn't fully load. Sometimes my wifi is a bit flakey or rather slow, and so in the middle of trying to load a page, it has to reestablish connection, and then I see this.
Thus, I'd check your side of things.
Just to give you an idea, here is the list of tags we currently have that have 'self' in them that are self insert related:
alternatehistory.com self-insert
duo self inserts
insert not self
isekai self insert
kind of a self insert
kind of self inser
kind off self insert
lots of self inserts...
I checked and corrected/merged a few a couple of months ago that were like "type moon" and "tpye moon". More such stuff still exists, and is the easy first step.
Unfortunately, no tag synonyms have been set up.
Staff/mods just got the ability to moderate and change tags earlier this year, and that sort of thing is like 4th-5th on the list of things to do behind standard mod stuff like answering questions and handling reports.
It is a huge undertaking...
Your comments about who might take the Hokage hat in your latest fic reminded me of this amazing short: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3590876/1/A-Calculated-Legacy
Hope you enjoy!
From back in high school, I had a teacher who bought a school bus, gutted the interior, and turned it into an RV he was going to drive down to Mexico and South America for World Cup watch parties... or something. This would have been 15-20 years ago, and the dates don't quite line up with...
As a form of spam protection, user privs are locked down until the user has a post count of 1 or more. A task runs every hour and updates privs.
How to do that: Make a post (profile posts don't count), and wait for a moderator to approve it. That will get you your post count. We do have a...
So, the issue is probably that the automatic process to enable full permissions for an account after you make your first post (and get it approved by staff), is not working for you. Let me call some admins in to look at it.
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