Nonsensical case sensitivity specific to the 5 second survey
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I am the owner of niqnaq.wordpress.com. I’m looking at
http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
and I see
“Congratulations, you win the prize! The chance to take our 5 second survey :)”
so I enter some number, and get taken to
http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=5-second-survey
and told
“Error Accessing Dashboard. You are logged in as “niqnaq” and do not not have the necessary privileges to access the dashboard for “Niqnaq”. Please ask an administrator of the site to invite you. If you reached this screen by accident and meant to visit one your own sites, here are some shortcuts to help you find your way. Your Sites: Niqnaq. Visit Dashboard | View Site”
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It’s happened every time I have tried to clear the “5-second survey” by clicking one or another of the ratings numbers on it. But happily it has never happened with any other aspect of the blog. It is pure accident that I use a capitalised N for Niqnaq in the title and a small n for niqnaq as my own user name, and it has never made any difference before.
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The 5-second survey has gone as mysteriously as it came, so I am happy again. I’ll mark the issue as resolved.
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Thanks for keeping us posted. Don’t hesitate to contact us again if you need anymore help. :-)
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I just thought of another explanation. I use Ubuntu, and so my directories are completely different from what might be assumed. There is another context in which this causes a (non-fatal) error: periodically, I am automatically logged out of Niqnaq and have to log back in. When I do so, I get a warning message saying cookies are not enabled, though in fact they are, and the log-in otherwise proceeds normally.
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Yup. Always have had. “Accept third party cookies, keep until they expire.” This being Firefox. Don’t you think using Ubuntu, with its unfamiliar directory structure, has anything to do with it?
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It’s probably not the OS. We only interact with the browser, never anything deeper. With that said, Firefox on Ubunutu could be bugged.
Can you try any other browsers?
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I’ve never bothered to install any other browsers. As I said, this isn’t a fatal error. Despite the error message about the cookies (which appears in a small rectangle above the log-in box), the log-in succeeds and I stay logged in for a month or so before it happens again. So evidently the cookies work normally, despite the message saying they don’t. This is such an unimportant issue that I normally ignore it it, but it struck me that you might find it relevant to the original issue, viz., the one I got after the five-second survey. I don’t have any analogous problems with any other sites, though there aren’t any that I interact with to anything like the extent I do with Niqnaq.
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Okay, thanks for your report.
Let us know if the problem appears in a different browser, or if you need any assistance! :-)
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aha. The five second survey came round to Niqnaq again, and this time I managed to complete it without getting the error message. So you’ve evidently sorted that, whatever it was.
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