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Take a look at "Testing, testing one two three" thread.

In answer to your question - yes - this is a common problem.

Don't worry, your message will get held until a human looks at it...normally within a few hours.

Yep the community manager will free it up for you, tomorrow now as they don't work after 5pm. Hours are weekdays 9-5, excluding bank holidays.

Yep the community manager will free it up for you, tomorrow now as they don't work after 5pm. Hours are weekdays 9-5, excluding bank holidays.

Seconded. It seems a very good bunch here, I've encountered one person who wasn't so nice but he's not here anymore.

The mods do seem to go above and beyond. That's quite reassuring for me. They helped my sister a great deal when she was here, I've made sure to let them know how much they are appreciated when I can.

There is a majority of good humans here, most of the time.

Yes Katy - that is when NAS can communicate with us, but I know that they keep an eye over the forum whenever they can - and all hours sometimes.  They are kindly volunteers - and us autists are not exactly slouches when it comes to keeping our 'front path' looked after.