Hello,

One very important thing to know when posting your YouTube video here, especially when your GameSpot account is brand new is this:

Don't just post a link to your video. Add some text describing it. Just posting a single link is in the top 10 list of what a SPAM post looks like and a SPAM post gets people banned.

For now, clearing cookies and logging back in will solve it, We're going to have a permanent solution this week. It is from the many many people who've logged on during E3. We're kind of maxed out on logged in users right now.

When users were imported into the new site their ban status didn't come with them. It was an accident but we lived with it.

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There was a similar issue with a bad ad provider today so maybe that's related? We shut down a whole bunch of ad networks and we continuing to look into it. If for some reason your browser gets hijacked just close it and you should be fine. This pisses us off as much or more than it pisses you off and we 're really sorry .

*sigh* that is not a virus or anything malicious. Its from a valid ad network. Your security software is a bit too maximum.

@fud_sang: We're aware of that problem. It only happens for some users. A fairly decent amount actually. The thing is its not under our control. We have urgent tickets out with our 3rd party provider for video delivery and so far they've been ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ unfortunately. This isn't acceptable for us and we will keep pressing on this.

One thing that should help in the meantime is if you disabled your ad-blocker and cleared your cookies.

It was a temporary problem. There are no posting restrictions that an actual human being can reach. Go forth and post with impunity.

Yeah, like the error says, its a bad ad doing dumb things.

Scratch that. I've reproduced. We'll fix this ASAP!