General Error: Spammer Prevention

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Hi. I'm new to the site and am not sure if this is the right way to ask. I have been trying to post in the Getting to know each other forum. When I click submit, I get the following message.

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In order to try to prevent spammers, we do not allow our users to post URLs in any form until they have posted at least 5 legitimate posts and have been with us for more than 5 days. We appreciate your understanding in this matter in order to help us eliminate spam from this forum. If you have somehow gotten this message even though you meet both of the criteria, please let us know ASAP.

Thanks!


What am I doing wrong and how can i fix it? I've not included any urls or even anything that could be mistaken for a website. If anyone thinks they could help me I could forward the text I was trying to post. I read in an old thread that it could be a passing bug, but It has been thwarting me since Saturday. This seems like a wonderful community and I would love to be a part of it.


Thanks,

Gerald

Odd - you've already successfully posted to that forum.

Please PM me with what you were trying to post when it failed.

For any passers-by...

The post originally contained the text wrongplanet.net, referring to the site's name and not intentionally included as a URL. Changing it to just wrongplanet resolved the problem.
So "URL" doesn't necessarily mean "that http:// stuff" - a domain name is enough.