Im constantly seeing the message.
"you've already posted this, duplicate, refresh".
Yet its false, when I refresh, my post is not there.
Im a genuine user trying to contribute to the forums, but feel its a pointless waste of time as my posts and threads dont show, or I get a message like above or "wait 360 seconds", only to wait and then get a message "already posted"
Surely you are losing many users over this?
First of all, you need to relax and give yourself some time to think and process everything. You need to know that there can be no problem without a reason, so when there is a problem, it means that there is an issue with that. So instead of getting all frustrated and angry, you should be asking what is the reason behind the problem you are facing so that you can get helped or informed about what is going on.
You called yourself a genuine user who is trying to contribute to the forum, I wonder why you couldn't find and read
this thread in
Meta that contains the exact information you were looking for which is a limitation about posting.