Paid roster advice still available?

[PD@HQ]

I've done a few where the advice I wanted to give was to pray for divine intervention!

[Lefty]

I'm not sure that my team needs advice as much as an intervention.

[Tom_T]

We'll be looking for your Personal Advisor order any day now.

[Lefty]

Eureka! That was the solution. I went into Ad Blocker and permitted /adv/ for HQ. Thanks to Tom, Beagle and RobR particularly and to the rest of you for your help. I probably would not have noticed my issue if redsoxfan2004 had not noticed the problem on his computer.

Rob, that is why I only got into Duke and not MIT.

[Tom_T]

I do use a firewall - Norton/Symantec but see nothing that says any HQ site is blocked. Besides, I should at least see the address in a post even if I can't access it, shouldn't I?

Bingo! Norton Internet Security has an overly-aggressive "ad remover" function which blocks any banner or link it thinks is "adware." And, it uses a number of keywords to determine this. One such rule blocks any address containing '/adv/' - which is what the Personal Advisor address contains. And yes, it actually makes the link invisible to you. There are many companies out there up in arms over this.

You can try either disabling the ad blocker entirely, or disabling it for baseballhq.com.

[Lefty]

I do use a firewall - Norton/Symantec but see nothing that says any HQ site is blocked. Besides, I should at least see the address in a post even if I can't access it, shouldn't I?

[Tom_T]

I wonder if this is a firewall issue? Do you use a firewall, and could it possibly be blocking that address?

[Lefty]

I now don't see it in once my response is posted even though I saw it when I was typing my response to you. I have officially entered the HQ Twilight Zone.

[Lefty]

Here it is again. Hope it works. http://www.baseballhq.com/members/tools/adv/adv.shtml

This is freaky. I did not see the post in your original post but I now see it in my response as I quote your post.

[BEAGLE@HQ]

Here it is again. Hope it works. http://www.baseballhq.com/members/tools/adv/adv.shtml

[Lefty]

See post #4 in this thread.

The link isn't there for me nor for at least one other. See post #5.

Perhaps HQ figures it would doesn't want to waste its time analyzing a team of mine. I'm not sure that I will be using the service but the fact that it is not appearing is disconcerting.

[Tom_T]

So, I am not entirely crazy. I thought that you had cracked the code since we had not heard from you in a while.

Beagle (or someone else), can you post the URL for the Personal Advisor just to see if I can access it?

See post #4 in this thread.

[RobR]

CTRL+R forces a page refresh in IE. CTRL+SHIFT+R forces a page refresh in Firefox. But I Think Lefty said he's already tried clearing his cache.

[Lefty]

So, I am not entirely crazy. I thought that you had cracked the code since we had not heard from you in a while.

Beagle (or someone else), can you post the URL for the Personal Advisor just to see if I can access it?

[redsoxfan2004]

Used Multiple Browsers - Safari Worked

It's gotta be a caching issue of some sort. I used IE 7.0, Firefox 2.0, and then Safari on a Mac which worked (one win for the Macs).

I'll keep tweaking and post if I find the solution.