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(Message started by: Barukh on Dec 28^th, 2004, 9:36am)

Title: Problem with Thread Ordering
Post by Barukh on Dec 28^th, 2004, 9:36am

Today, I found the order of threads in almost every section completely messed up.

Does it happen only to me?

Title: Re: Problem with Thread Ordering?
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Dec 28^th, 2004, 9:47am

Nope, me also. But it should soon sort itself out when members return from their celebrations.
(Of course, it would be easy for somebody to do this deliberately by posting and then deleting posts.)

Title: Re: Problem with Thread Ordering?
Post by Barukh on Dec 29^th, 2004, 12:49am

on 12/28/04 at 09:47:02, THUDandBLUNDER wrote:

Nope, me also. But it should soon sort itself out when members return from their celebrations.

I don't think it's so easy. I believe the best thing is to fix a technical problem at the server site (of course, when relevant people are back from their celebrations/vacations :D)

Happy New Year! :)

Title: Re: Problem with Thread Ordering?
Post by towr on Dec 29^th, 2004, 1:57am

Two days ago there were two spammers (or one with two names) And every out of place thread is one where they posted, and where I consequently deleted their post. Unfortunately that still left all the threads out of place (but on the other hand it will allow you to count how much spam we got bombarded with)

Title: Re: Problem with Thread Ordering?
Post by Icarus on Dec 29^th, 2004, 7:45am

Unfortunately, towr's curses haven't managed to catch up with them yet. I had to delete a couple new posts from them yesterday as well.

Title: Problem with Thread Ordering
Post by william wu on Dec 29^th, 2004, 12:44pm

I think I fixed the thread ordering now. Thanks everyone for the reports.

Title: Re: Problem with Thread Ordering
Post by Barukh on Dec 30^th, 2004, 10:35am

It seems the spam is back... I noticed 3 posts in Easy section and one in "What am I" in the last 15 minutes. Look here (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1053625055).

What I've seen had **** in the link name and was related to India. Can't it be an automatic posting? :(

Then, I noticed one of the spams was removed (probably, by one of the admins) from this thread (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1036468244). And, after that, Easy section indication of the last post was the last post of that thread (06/2004).

Title: Re: Problem with Thread Ordering
Post by John_Gaughan on Dec 31^st, 2004, 1:48pm

I know William does not want to remove anonymous posting, but maybe something else is needed? For example, what about requiring the user to type in a code when posting anonymously? This would foil robots that google for bulletin boards, but not people with too much time on their hands.

Title: Re: Problem with Thread Ordering
Post by towr on Jan 1^st, 2005, 9:39am

That might require more tinkering in the forum code than is practical.. (I don't think it's a standard mod for YaBB)