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OK this is getting ridiculous 3 days of taking a breather is a bit much dont you think?
What is taking so long? Any time I try to leave a detailed answer it keeps popping up with YA is taking a breather. What gives?
4 Answers
- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Try removing the percent sign from your answer and see if that helps.
- ClosedLv 71 decade ago
Known new glitches due to updates: "Breather" screen can result from: Percent signs (or other symbols) in q&a, hitting daily limit when answering, posting over 4 links per answer/question, leaving answer screen open for over 3 minutes. Also the + sign is 'eaten' in questions, question may have been deleted, you may be blocked by ther person, posting the same link repeatedly, etc.
Possible fixes: Eliminate the symbols, shorten the answer, wait until after midnight Pacific time (for daily limit issue), click BACK & try again, click F5 & try again, clear your cache & reboot, post a short answer & update with the longer answer (Warning: this may earn you a ‘placeholding’ violation, though!), remove links, go to another English site, another category, be patient.
- got2bhap_pLv 41 decade ago
The poster who said try removing the percent sign is correct, at least for me. I was having that problem, read this question and that answer, and then went back and tried re-posting an answer I had copied in hopes that I could get it to work - only I changed the percent sign to actually saying "percent". It worked!!!
Thanks and BIG thumbs up to that answer :-)
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Soooooooooo Annoying!!! The same exact thing is happening to me everytime I try to answer a question!! It is making me lose interest in
Y!A, they are a big enough website to do these repairs without causing soo many problems for the users!