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 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 4:06 AM   
 By:   jacky   (Member)

This guy has nerves of steel, If I have to post only one message it takes me up to minutes to upload it.......this "1" topic guy has reached more than a few hundred at this moment!

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 4:12 AM   
 By:   johnbijl   (Member)

I'm pretty sure this is a MSSQL-error.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 5:09 AM   
 By:   pp312   (Member)

Which is what?

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 7:27 AM   
 By:   SBD   (Member)

Skynet's getting smarter...or dumber. Who can tell?

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 7:33 AM   
 By:   LordDalek   (Member)

I'm still going with eastern European hacker. We had a guy do that to a thread a couple days ago.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 9:20 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

I think this "1" person is a hacker not a spammer. It could be a person who was kicked off of FSM. Hope this person gets nailed!!

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 9:23 AM   
 By:   litefoot   (Member)

Normalcy restored thank god!

Whoever fixed it give yourselves a pat on the back.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 9:47 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

I think this "1" person is a hacker not a spammer. It could be a person who was kicked off of FSM. Hope this person gets nailed!!

The thought occured to me that it might be Rory or some other person recently kicked off, but he didn't seem like the person who would know how to do it; so then he would have hired someone, but then it gets all MR. ROBOT conspiracy theory stuff, and that's too much paranoia.

I think it's more likely it was just some 'hacking bot' or 'spam bot'.

My suggestion remains: I think we should all chip in to provide Lukas with enough money to upgrade this whole thing; including a more secure server.

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 9:55 AM   
 By:   Octoberman   (Member)

The thought occured to me that it might be Rory or some other person recently kicked off, but he didn't seem like the person who would know how to do it; so then he would have hired someone, but then it gets all MR. ROBOT conspiracy theory stuff, and that's too much paranoia.
I think it's more likely it was just some 'hacking bot' or 'spam bot'.



You're likely correct.
On the other hand, I never underestimate any damn dirty human's bottomless capacity for vindictive spite!
big grin

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 9:59 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

If it is a spammer, then where is the advertising for a writing site or for passports, etc.? I think it is a hacker.

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 10:04 AM   
 By:   johnbijl   (Member)

If it is a spammer, then where is the advertising for a writing site or for passports, etc.? I think it is a hacker.


Or a simple error in the software that's running the board. It was probably that.

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 10:15 AM   
 By:   LordDalek   (Member)

The thing is we've had three other bots show up in the last two weeks. Could be a glitch but I believe in the Goldfinger principle here.

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 10:30 AM   
 By:   Lukas Kendall   (Member)


Well that was fun...not.

What happened is that the "captcha" function became incompatible with our board code around three weeks ago and our programmer had to disable it. This is what separates humans from bots in the registration process...and allowed some nasty spammers to get in and wreak (pointless) havoc.

Our programmer has since found a new captcha that he will be integrating with the board code ASAP, right after cleaning up the damage from last night.

Thank you for your ongoing patience.

Lukas


 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 10:41 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Thanks for the update, Lukas!

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 10:43 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Thank you for the explanation. Understandable of course, and very frustrating for those that had to clean this up I'm sure.

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 10:45 AM   
 By:   LordDalek   (Member)

You might want to check your store accounts. These guys could have been using the forum as an exploit.

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 11:44 AM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)


The thought occured to me that it might be Rory or some other person recently kicked off, but he didn't seem like the person who would know how to do it....





I have to be honest and point out that there's something a wee bit unsavoury about all the 'Nya, nya' rejoicing and diving on RoryR after his expulsion. He was no doubt ejected for his sort of aggressive stance and his political interjections, according to the rules. But this playground gloating stuff everybody's doing would at one time have been seen as very bad form. Let it lie.

But I think everybody knows full well that he's not the sort to have done something like this. Read better between the lines. I have no idea if he 'would know how to do it' because stereotyping intelligence from the PERSONA, yes, PERSONA that someone ADOPTS, yes, ADOPTS here is a mistake. And naïve, frankly.

You can tell nothing about what people are really like from the net. The most sugary and sweet could be manipulative and passive-aggressive manipulators, and the toughest 'ape' could be a sensitive genius.

The guy chose a persona. He overplayed it. Let it lie. He wouldn't do this.

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 11:56 AM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

RoryR was kicked off? Missed that somehow.

Sorry you had to deal with that, Lukas.

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 11:58 AM   
 By:   davefg   (Member)

I think this "1" person is a hacker not a spammer. It could be a person who was kicked off of FSM. Hope this person gets nailed!!

The thought occured to me that it might be Rory or some other person recently kicked off, but he didn't seem like the person who would know how to do it; so then he would have hired someone, but then it gets all MR. ROBOT conspiracy theory stuff, and that's too much paranoia.

I think it's more likely it was just some 'hacking bot' or 'spam bot'.

My suggestion remains: I think we should all chip in to provide Lukas with enough money to upgrade this whole thing; including a more secure server.


Yes this should be the driver to raise money to upgrade the website perhaps via Kickstarter, though not sure what the rewards would be. It could be worse the next time. When was Rory R kicked off and for what? I tend to visit the board quite often so somewhat surprised to be hearing it for the first time...

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2017 - 12:08 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

I have to be honest and point out that there's something a wee bit unsavoury about all the 'Nya, nya' rejoicing and diving on RoryR after his expulsion. He was no doubt ejected for his sort of aggressive stance and his political interjections, according to the rules. But this playground gloating stuff everybody's doing would at one time have been seen as very bad form. Let it lie.

I do, and I agree with you. But what Joan wrote, and the happenstance of the recent issue with Rory and this, made it a tempting thought (I'm sure I'm not the only person to make that tentative connection). Thankfully, there was nothing to it -- as expected.

Be that as it may, the more crucial thing to take away from this recent turn of events, is the need for a reboot of the board.

 
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