Welcome back BearNotes posters...

Sam · Post by **Sam** » September 28, 2004, 7:47 am

A change:

Moderators and Administrators are now the only ones that can edit and delete posts in most forums. Be sure that what you want to say is clear the first go round.

Please change your password frequently. A modification will be installed later that will allow passwords of only a certain complexity.

Fried Squirrel · Post by **Fried Squirrel** » September 28, 2004, 7:48 am

The board looks a lot "cleaner".

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » September 28, 2004, 7:50 am

Well shucks....

Sam · Post by **Sam** » September 28, 2004, 7:51 am

Yes, it does...it pisses me off that both someone would stoop so low as to hack someones account AND that such an easy password was used for this account

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The changes should prevent someone from doing that again. Oh, I almost forgot, username changes are not allowed. But hey, this is still a free and open board in the sense that the mods and I allow almost anything to be posted. So go have fun...

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » September 28, 2004, 7:53 am

Yeah, or maybe it just makes you mad that someone would sit around guessing a password for that long...

Post by **Paco103** » September 28, 2004, 7:54 am

What happened? DId I miss something?

Sam · Post by **Sam** » September 28, 2004, 7:55 am

Got to run and play student for a while. Hold down the fort!

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » September 28, 2004, 7:55 am

Someone guessed Chreteau/Gypsyspazz's password and changed all their posts to say the same thing, along with changing their display name a few times. Sam shut the board down for the night so he could fix it. Hence all the leftover Guest posts.

HatePirate · Post by **HatePirate** » September 28, 2004, 8:44 am

Moderators and Administrators are now the only ones that can edit and delete posts in most forums

I've seen Admins try this in alot of other forums. We're gonna end up with a billion posts in every thread, people correcting themselves and leaving things out. Bad move IMHO. What happened yesterday shouldv'e been caught after the account was first hacked and all the posts were edited so much. For those of you who only thought the name had been changed once, it had actually been changed a few times. Should have been caught and blocked by mods. tsk tsk

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » September 28, 2004, 9:16 am

Problem is with phpbb he'd need either the junior admin mod by Nivisec or a super moderator mod to allow moderators to use the portion of the admin panel to take away that user's privileges. Otherwise, there's if there's no admin on, nothing's going to happen.

Post by **Paco103** » September 28, 2004, 10:06 am

I thought the sudden change in his posting and name and all that stuff was kind of strange - but I guess I just overlooked it too. I don't think names should be changeable, as that is kind of your ID and how everyone knows who you are. Posts in my opinion should remain editable as stated earlier, however I can definitely understand the reasoning.

Kenshiro · Post by **Kenshiro** » September 29, 2004, 10:46 am

I guess this is as good a time/place as any to announce my comeback.

Go me!

paula · Post by **paula** » September 29, 2004, 3:57 pm

Hey, welcome back!

Bayesian Extremist · September 29, 2004, 4:57 pm

HatePirate wrote:
Moderators and Administrators are now the only ones that can edit and delete posts in most forums
I've seen Admins try this in alot of other forums. We're gonna end up with a billion posts in every thread, people correcting themselves and leaving things out. Bad move IMHO. What happened yesterday shouldv'e been caught after the account was first hacked and all the posts were edited so much. For those of you who only thought the name had been changed once, it had actually been changed a few times. Should have been caught and blocked by mods. tsk tsk

If there was a way to set a 1-hour time limit, after which a post could no longer be edited or deleted, that would be ideal. Is there?

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » September 29, 2004, 5:11 pm

Not without modifications to the code.

Sam · Post by **Sam** » September 29, 2004, 6:48 pm

There is a modification (and if anyone knows of a better one let me know) that allows you to write something, save it (without posting it) and come back later and edit more and then post. This isin't exactly what you asked for, but it is one option. However, we cannot have a repeat of the other day. It makes me sick that a users posts, indeed his very identity, was erased. I had a backup, but that did not have the last 10 or so users that registered so I decided not to use it.

Chreteau · Post by **Chreteau** » September 29, 2004, 9:12 pm

There IS a preview option. *shrug*

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » September 29, 2004, 9:12 pm

It doesn't work.

Bayesian Extremist · September 29, 2004, 11:22 pm

the_red_chimp wrote:It doesn't work.

It used to. But now it just displays an empty post, at least with IE 6.0 in the computer lab.

Sam · Post by **Sam** » September 30, 2004, 6:18 am

Whaaat??

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » September 30, 2004, 7:35 am

Ditto with firefox and avant! broswer.