A writing prompt is a starting idea, question, or instruction designed to give you ideas to write about. You can find a large collection on The Muse of Last Resort if you are curious about writing prompts.
What’s your take on writing prompts?
Posted under Question of the week On By Matt
Thank you @pfefferle for willingly sharing some of your time to help me with a really rare edge case where “the other site refuses to play nicely” was the one-in-a-million error.
@pfefferle I accidentally stumbled on the problem. I tried to ping another site I run from node.lordmatt.co.uk. That too gave the same reply.
So I took a look at the backend of node.lordmatt.co.uk. That’s when I saw a notice about an expired anti-spam license. Disabled plugin. Everything works again.
I’d assumed it was WebMention as that’s where the error was. Only now do I recall that 500s were recently changed to 403s. 4.5 hours spent re-learning to look at the simple stuff first.
@pfefferle I suspect the problem may be with node.lordmatt.co.uk as other implementations also reply forbidden to it.
@pfefferle OpenMentions has no blocked comment keys – the only limit is first-time commenters are held for moderation.
This might be the strangest brick wall I’ve run into for a while. Everything looks correct and yet…
@pfefferle It seems to be between the two. Another pinged as normal. I’ve tried two targets on OpenMentions with two sources from node.lordmatt.co.uk and both gave me a Forbidden which showed up in the access logs.
@lordmatt the debugging tool shows nothing out of the ordinary… do you maybe use some words in the post that might be blocked for comments?
@lordmatt is it a general issue between these two sites or only this specific URL?
In reply to: What’s your take on writing prompts? (A Question of The Week that I asked).
A writing prompt is a starting idea, question, or instruction designed to give you ideas to write about. You can find a large collection on The Muse of Last Resort if you are curious about writing prompts. What’s your take on writing prompts?, Question of the Week, OpenMentions.com
I love writing prompts. In principle at least. I find many are over-engineered and fail to spark anything in my imagination. That’s why I contribute to The Muse of Last Resort – I’m being the change I want to see. Feedback from my local writing group is that they have several short stories in the pipeline based on my prompts. There can be no higher compliment.