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Necromancy

Started by baldurk Dec 29, 2002 at 10:04 AM 21 replies 550+ views

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Dec 29, 2002 at 10:04 AM

Has anyone else noticed these old posts being brought back up? it seems like someone is posting to bring them up, then immediately deleting their post so it seems like it was never there. Anyone know anything about it?

Evil Bill

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:05 AM

Dave! Help us!

Evil Bill

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:12 AM

Its not the forum screwing up. ISTR one of the mods here muttering something about "Asking Dave for access to his deletion logs" to see who brought back some post or another.

baldurk

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baldurk

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:13 AM

If we watch the forum there must be a gap between the poster resurrecting the thread and deleting their post

Monder

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Monder

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:15 AM

Well the 'XBox For Real!!! Now What?' thread was resurrected by notme

[edit]And now his/her post that said 'heh' has been deleted off the end of it.[/edit]

[edited by - Monder on December 29, 2002 11:16:13 AM]

Evil Bill

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:16 AM

Lets kill him! Woo hoo!

baldurk

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baldurk

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:18 AM

Monder: did you catch the poster''s nick?

Monder

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Monder

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:25 AM

Yep it was ''notme'' only being a fool I didn''t get his profile and the thread has been replaced by the one where he deleted his post in my cache

Evil Bill

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:27 AM

Tada

Monder

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Monder

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:28 AM

Hmmm don't deleted replies show up in your profile?

[edit]They don't[/edit]

[edited by - Monder on December 29, 2002 11:30:11 AM]

baldurk

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baldurk

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:29 AM

it appears not

Evil Bill

Dec 29, 2002 at 10:36 AM

Nup, just tested it, they get removed from your profile too. Cunning...

Myopic Rhino

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Myopic Rhino

Dec 29, 2002 at 11:08 AM

Yes, it would be quite cunning, if I didn''t have access to a log of all deletions. Someone''s getting banned.

Evil Bill

Dec 29, 2002 at 11:14 AM

I meant its cunning that the forum software removes deleted posts from the profile. My home made version doesn't, it just gives bad links. I think i need to fix that...

Edit: What do you do to ban someone (in the forum software)? I mean, do you ban their IP, e-mail, something else? Coz i'm gonna have to implement that in my software at some point. Taaaa

[edited by - Evil Bill on December 29, 2002 12:15:59 PM]

baldurk

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baldurk

Dec 29, 2002 at 11:17 AM

heh. Are you going to tell us who it is? is it notme?

CWizard

Dec 29, 2002 at 11:49 AM

quote:
Original post by Evil Bill
Edit: What do you do to ban someone (in the forum software)? I mean, do you ban their IP, e-mail, something else? Coz i''m gonna have to implement that in my software at some point.

I think he meen to ban/disable the account, not ban the person to visit the site (which would be hard).

vtwin

Dec 29, 2002 at 12:22 PM

I''ve caught AnonymousPosterChild doing it a few times before; he ressurrected a post once, I saw the thread and replied to it (not noticing the date), he deletes his post, and then replies to mine saying "don''t ressurrect threads".

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evil sausage

Dec 29, 2002 at 12:52 PM

quote:
Original post by vtwin
I''ve caught AnonymousPosterChild doing it a few times before; he ressurrected a post once, I saw the thread and replied to it (not noticing the date), he deletes his post, and then replies to mine saying "don''t ressurrect threads".

I did something like that to him once link

Myopic Rhino

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Myopic Rhino

Dec 29, 2002 at 2:21 PM

We IP ban them from the forums. IP bans aren''t always the most effective means of preventing abuse, for obvious reasons, but they can help, especially if it''s a normal user who thinks they can get away with something...

We''re adding more effecting banning measures, btw.

Evil Bill

Dec 29, 2002 at 3:04 PM

Doubly cunning...

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