Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-34797220-20191028004855/@comment-5956954-20191028010012

Hello. I noticed this error is starting to happen more often for people on community central. There has been an explanation for this, but if the below info is wrong, please detail further how the issue comes to be and perhaps link the wiki in question.

Credits to KockaAdmiralac for one possible explanation for your problem:

"no feature on Fandom, other than the source editor, take into account the very nature of MediaWiki CSRF protection mechanism known as edit tokens. Comments, Message Walls, Forum, and basically any feature that isn't a part of standard MediaWiki, after the page is left open for long enough, errors out when actions that modify the database are done on it (such as, in this case, posting a comment), because the user's edit token expired by then and nothing is done to re-fetch these edit tokens.

The mentioned "session hijacking" is a warning that there might have been a CSRF attack occurring when in reality it's just the comments feature trying to post content to the server with an outdated edit token, as it has been doing since its creation"

In other words, a possible reason you cannot post a comment is because your 'token' has expired for taking too long to comment (perhaps, your comment is too long, so it took a while to type). If you haven't been making long comments, I would do these other suggestions:


 * Try commenting on another browser. It may be something on one browser that breaks something not present on another. I have this problem with Chrome and its many extensions, so I change to Microsoft Edge which usually fixes the problem.
 * A destop application, like an adblocker or anything that modifies your internet connection, may be affecting the browsing experience. You'll need to identify what application is causing it through a process of elimination (disable applications one by one until it's fixed, then re-enable the good applications).
 * Contact Fandom Staff regarding a possible bug. Do this when you have exhausted all other options including but not limited to the above suggestions.

All the best with commenting!