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Doughy Elf
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Canada
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Yah, I never knew that Guest's where able to PM members. *shrugs* And one of them was reading this thread.
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Banned
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: I have no idea.
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Canadian Guy.
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: The true North Strong and Free
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i didnt know they could edit posts, or quote posts
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Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Florida
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Yes, and one said it was editing a post! Also, what does "moderating duties" mean? This is odd. As far as inktomisearch not existing, it might just be inaccessable, because I've never heard of the thingy it lists for me.
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the dumb stoner canuck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: canada
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i tried not signing in and postoing something and it said i had to sign in to post so im not sure whats going on
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Not where I want to be ...
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very weird ... I saw all those guests, too.
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Canadian Guy.
Join Date: Feb 2003
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wait, you dont even know what moderating duties are. i thought it had to do with moderators and admins. ![]()
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 290
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I was looking on "Who's Online", and one of the guest is registering!
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Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Florida
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Well, in the boxes that tell what everyone is doing, for a couple of the "guests" it said moderating duties. I just meant that obviously something strange is going on because how could a guest be performing moderating duties, but then what exactly would a moderator be doing that it would list that as what they were doing. I mean, how does it know when I'm doing a moderator duty versus when I'm not? It listed me as looking at "who's online" or whatever. I don't know what exactly it means when it says "moderating duties."
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I am Freddie/UNDERCOVER/ Founder of The Great Continent of Entmoot
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Plainsboro, NJ
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I think it might be hacker robots. I've never hacked and I'm just not sure. I know there is supposed to be a hacking contest on sunday. I hope this isn't part of it.
In order for the users to appear online and show up in the "who's online" page - they have to be updating the database. They have to be actually executing the pages.
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Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Florida
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I'm tech-illiterate, so I didn't understand what you said in your second paragraph, but your first paragraph concerns me a little. I keep noticing that it is looking at a lot of user profiles -- I hope they can't hack in and get our personal info (not that there's anything to obtain besides name and email address).
EDIT: Oh, after rereading your first paragraph, I see what you're saying -- that there has to actually be something "there" where they say it is, so to speak? SECOND EDIT: Actually it's just email and our password it could get. I forgot we don't give our name when registering. So if everyone starts making weird posts on Sunday, I guess we'll know it's the hackers! ![]() ![]() |
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 290
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Hackers?!
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The Buddy Rabbit
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Trapped in the headlights..
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inktomisearch.com (which according to Ben is where the majority of todays guests are coming from) apears to be nothing more than a statistics gathering set of programs, prolly sent here (you have to pay for the service) by whoever Ben + co have rented the server space from
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Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Florida
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Maybe it's a vBulliten or maybe an advertiser thing just seeing how active the board is or something, then.
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I am Freddie/UNDERCOVER/ Founder of The Great Continent of Entmoot
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Just think of a table - as like a area to save a group of similar data - like addresses. A database - is made up of multiple tables such as users, threads , posts, etc. Together this holds all the data that makes entmoot work. There are other parts to it - but this is the very basics.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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90% angel
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Unknown>:)
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MOLY!!! theres 48!!!!
why is there so many!!?!
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Tennessee
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I'm confused now....
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Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Florida
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Thanks, JD, that clarifies it (to the extent that stuff like that can be clear to me!
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I am Freddie/UNDERCOVER/ Founder of The Great Continent of Entmoot
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Hacking doesn't necessarily mean just going into the server and screwing with that - it can be screwing with a website in any number of ways.
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