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Author Topic: Something screwy on the forum  (Read 8335 times)

timns

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Something screwy on the forum
« on: January 17, 2011, 07:30 PM »
...and I think this may be related to Wraith808's posting issue that we talked about over the weekend.

I just posted a message, but now when I look at it, it appears to come from joiwind!

duff.jpgSomething screwy on the forum

This is this entry here:
https://www.donation....msg232366#msg232366

That's potentially quite bad isn't it? I would not like someone else to be able to post as me.

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2011, 07:36 PM »
it def sounds like it could be related to the wraith problem -- sounds like almost same thing.
wow.. how is this happening..  looking into it now.

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2011, 07:38 PM »
Sounds like DB corruption.

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2011, 07:40 PM »
did you delete the post? i don't see it.

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2011, 07:41 PM »
This is what I see for Reply #49

My prime candidate for fix is:

hiding the auto complete window when typing more letters and no accordances are found.

Fixed, coming up in the next build.

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2011, 07:43 PM »
did you delete the post? i don't see it.

Sorry, what was happening is that I was splitting the topic - maybe that's part of the problem? I put joiwind's post back as best I could.

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2011, 07:45 PM »
i think i know what may have happened.. perhaps.

you know you are a MOD on that forum, which means you can MODIFY other people's posts.

i think you may have modified someones post thinking you were replying to it.

when you do that, you dont change the poster name, you will just end up with a line at bottom "modified by..."

the reason im pretty sure thats what happened is i can see that you did it :)
well at least i think i can.

i see you modified a post by joiwind and turned it into a reply to his post.

i've actually done this myself once or twice, thinking i was replying but i was really modifying.

some people just aren't ready for mod powers  :huh:

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2011, 07:45 PM »
i have his original post, i can put it back.

just show me where his original post is.

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2011, 07:46 PM »
i think i know what may have happened.. perhaps.

you know you are a MOD on that forum, which means you can MODIFY other people's posts.

i think you may have modified someones post thinking you were replying to it.

i've actually done this myself once or twice, thinking i was replying but i was really modifying.

some people just aren't ready for mod powers  :huh:

Bet you anything you like that's what happened  :-[

I'm not too proud to own up  :D

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2011, 09:00 PM »
i see you modified a post by joiwind and turned it into a reply to his post.

i've actually done this myself once or twice, thinking i was replying but i was really modifying.

some people just aren't ready for mod powers  :huh:

If you remember, the first time you made me a mod, I freaked out about the extra links added and thought I might accidentally mess things up...and asked you to remove my mod status.  ;D

I still hesitate when hitting that quote link, making sure I am clicking "quote" and not "modify".  :-[

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2011, 11:20 AM »
...and I think this may be related to Wraith808's posting issue that we talked about over the weekend.

I just posted a message, but now when I look at it, it appears to come from joiwind!
 (see attachment in previous post)
This is this entry here:
https://www.donation....msg232366#msg232366

I would not like someone else to be able to post as me.

Unfortunately I think mouser removed the message I posted as you — it was a corker!

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2011, 11:33 AM »
...and I think this may be related to Wraith808's posting issue that we talked about over the weekend.

I just posted a message, but now when I look at it, it appears to come from joiwind!
 (see attachment in previous post)
This is this entry here:
https://www.donation....msg232366#msg232366

I would not like someone else to be able to post as me.

Unfortunately I think mouser removed the message I posted as you — it was a corker!
-cranioscopical (January 18, 2011, 11:20 AM)

Whoa!  :huh:

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Re: Something screwy on the forum
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2011, 02:12 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D