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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 12:31:37 GMT
It's worth having two. I agree with Mrs tabby as well if he is up for it.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 26, 2020 12:34:07 GMT
It's back! -and they already have 4 gold stars for 66 posts! How have they awarded themselves these stars?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 12:43:06 GMT
Is it an inside job?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 26, 2020 12:48:41 GMT
It's back! -and they already have 4 gold stars for 66 posts! How have they awarded themselves these stars? Looking through the member list, four stars would be the right number for having made 68 posts, the member below with 65 posts also has four stars. Delta9 does seem to have lost interest in the forum which is understandable given his change in personal circumstances, not least that as I understand it he no longer owns a boat so it would be sensible to give admin responsibilities to an additional person to deal with this sort of attack.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 12:50:25 GMT
It's back! -and they already have 4 gold stars for 66 posts! How have they awarded themselves these stars? Looking through the member list, four stars would be the right number for having made 68 posts, the member below with 65 posts also has four stars. Delta9 does seem to have lost interest in the forum which is understandable given his change in personal circumstances, not least that as I understand it he no longer owns a boat so it would be sensible to give admin responsibilities to an additional person to deal with this sort of attack. Interesting little twist below your post. A response rather than a new thread...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 12:51:30 GMT
I wonder what happens if you put it on "ignore" I never tried this but there is a first time for everything
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 12:54:48 GMT
Ok so that removes the content at post level so it's not an admin hack.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 12:56:21 GMT
However it still displays threads initiated which clutters up the home page quite badly.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 12:57:50 GMT
Definitely automated
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 12:58:36 GMT
Interesting that it has not noticed other sections on the board.
It's only ever turned up on "general boating" and has not yet noticed the "cwdf" section.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 26, 2020 12:59:22 GMT
However it still displays threads initiated which clutters up the home page quite badly. It just needs Delta to delete the account and the posts. An admin will also be able to see the IP address and whether any other member has posted from the same IP address.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 13:02:50 GMT
However it still displays threads initiated which clutters up the home page quite badly. An admin will also be able to see the IP address and whether any other member has posted from the same IP address. That's an astute observation if I may say so. However anyone doing this sort of thing probably knows how to mess with IP identity anyway. I do wonder if it is a pissed off ex member trying to get the forum shut down in an attempt to remove their previous input There is another way to do it which is manually but if you had deleted your account your content is there forever...unless the forum is removed from the database...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 13:08:33 GMT
It's a bot, hence why it can only access one section of the board. Could well be from someone on here who has unknowingly been hacked. Or maybe something that has been picked up in a cookie.
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Post by JohnV on Jul 26, 2020 18:19:59 GMT
It's a bot, hence why it can only access one section of the board. Could well be from someone on here who has unknowingly been hacked. Or maybe something that has been picked up in a cookie. from memory it's identical to a bot that spammed CWDF about 5 years ago .... I'm sure the message was identical ..... or at least bloody close.
If so it could have been floating round in the aether for years (there's a nice historic term complete with it's historic spelling)
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Post by rockdodger on Jul 26, 2020 18:25:59 GMT
It's a bot, hence why it can only access one section of the board. Could well be from someone on here who has unknowingly been hacked. Or maybe something that has been picked up in a cookie. from memory it's identical to a bot that spammed CWDF about 5 years ago .... I'm sure the message was identical ..... or at least bloody close.
If so it could have been floating round in the aether for years (there's a nice historic term complete with it's historic spelling)
So how do we get rid of it?
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