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jonathanlennox
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137 posts		 Dec-21-11, 03:11 PM (EST)
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"Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
 
   I'm seeing years-old posts, in nearly every subforum, showing up as edited, with no visible change in the posts themselves. Is something wonky happening with DCboard?


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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? BZArcher Dec-21-11 1
     RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? trigger Dec-21-11 2
         RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? Star Ranger4 Dec-21-11 3
         RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? Gryphonadmin Dec-21-11 4
  RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? Gryphonadmin Dec-21-11 5
     RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? Astynax Dec-30-11 6
         RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? Star Ranger4 Dec-31-11 7
  RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? Gryphonadmin Jan-16-12 8
     RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? Prince Charon Jan-17-12 12
  RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? StaticdashPulse Jan-16-12 9
     RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? Pasha Jan-17-12 10
         RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? StaticdashPulse Jan-17-12 11
         RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? Gryphonadmin Jan-18-12 13
             RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? Pasha Jan-18-12 14
                 RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited? StaticdashPulse Jan-19-12 15

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BZArcher
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1. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   I'm seeing the same thing, and it seems like every topic that StaticDashPulse posted in shows as him editing all of his posts.

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trigger
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1452 posts		 Dec-21-11, 04:16 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   >I'm seeing the same thing, and it seems like every topic that
>StaticDashPulse posted in shows as him editing all of his posts.

Yeah, all at about 2:42 this morning. WTF? Did the Forum get hacked?

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Star Ranger4
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3. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   LAST EDITED ON Dec-21-11 AT 04:30 PM (EST)
 
>>I'm seeing the same thing, and it seems like every topic that
>>StaticDashPulse posted in shows as him editing all of his posts.
>
>Yeah, all at about 2:42 this morning. WTF? Did the Forum get hacked?
>
<Redacted after further investigation showed this comment was wrong>

Of COURSE you wernt expecting it!
No One expects the FANNISH INQUISITION!
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Gryphonadmin
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4. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   LAST EDITED ON Dec-21-11 AT 04:46 PM (EST)
 
>>I'm seeing the same thing, and it seems like every topic that
>>StaticDashPulse posted in shows as him editing all of his posts.
>
>Yeah, all at about 2:42 this morning. WTF? Did the Forum get hacked?

If so, one has to wonder what the person responsible was trying to accomplish...

I would guess some kind of user database glitch myself (particularly as they all seem to have happened around the same time, apart from the one outlier I noticed a couple days ago and assumed was just a random, weirdly-timed typo correction or something), but that's only a guess. Will refer to the server admin for further investigation.

For the moment, I tend to doubt it's anything malicious, since it doesn't appear as if the posts were edited to vandalize them or anything of the sort.

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Gryphonadmin
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5. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   Sorry you suddenly had to log back in; as part of the ongoing effort to figure out wtf is going on with S-P's account, I zorched all the session files (that being the only cleanup option available).

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Astynax
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6. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   >Sorry you suddenly had to log back in; as part of the ongoing effort
>to figure out wtf is going on with S-P's account, I zorched all the
>session files (that being the only cleanup option available).
>

The age old IT adage: Nuke the site from orbit.

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Star Ranger4
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7. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   >>Sorry you suddenly had to log back in; as part of the ongoing effort
>>to figure out wtf is going on with S-P's account, I zorched all the
>>session files (that being the only cleanup option available).
>>
>
>The age old IT adage: Nuke the site from orbit.
>
*sigh* indeed. I've forgotten how many times thats been the only way to solve a software problem back in the days when I worked at little used computer shop.

only difference? I personally called it 'The Shotgun Approach'.
*Mutleylaugh.mp3*

Of COURSE you wernt expecting it!
No One expects the FANNISH INQUISITION!
RCW# 86


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Gryphonadmin
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8. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   Oh, well, that explains that. I've just had a note from S-P; it appears that, in a fit of... let's be generous and say "security-consciousness" (rather than a clinical diagnosis that starts with P :)... he felt behooved to seek out posts in which he'd mentioned a particular bit of information and edit that bit out. It seems he didn't realize that doing so would effectively necro all the threads involved.

So there we are - a simple explanation that would never have occurred to me. As he puts it in his note, "nothing was hacked, it was a user who was whacked."

--G.
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Prince Charon
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12. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   For some reason, the explanation amuses me.

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StaticdashPulse
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9. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   My sincere apologies, all. I was trying to avoid pestering admins and apparently went straight to worrying them. Sorry.


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Pasha
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10. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   Oh, but pestering forum users was perfectly fine?

Bite me.

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StaticdashPulse
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11. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-17-12 AT 12:22 PM (EST)
 
For whatever it's worth, I apologize for emailing you out of the blue. It was a bad choice in hindsight, and one I won't (and didn't) do again.


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Gryphonadmin
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13. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
In response to message #10
 
   >Oh, but pestering forum users was perfectly fine?
>
>Bite me.

Easy, tiger. As screw-ups go, this is pretty small potatoes. No need for Pasha smash.

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Pasha
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14. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   >>Oh, but pestering forum users was perfectly fine?
>>
>>Bite me.
>
>Easy, tiger. As screw-ups go, this is pretty small potatoes.
>No need for Pasha smash.


Actually, it was the e-mail that I got, asking me to go through and edit all of MY posts that had said info that had annoyed me.

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Oh yes.
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StaticdashPulse
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15. "RE: Huge number of posts randomly showing as edited?"
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   Man, I'm sorry. There should have been a link in that email to one post. Sorry for not making that email clearer.


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