(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Very good suggestion from aarf.
If it is possible make it a kind of box with a text that explain what it is about.
I trust a lot of newbies have no idea what it suppose to do.

What is aarf's suggestion, the post appears blank?
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I suggested added an unanswered topic panel, details here-
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81025[/url]

It is blank. Aarf suddenly started removing the contents of his posts a week or two ago. For that reason, he's no longer allowed to post.

Thanks for the information. People have the right to remove post no? But I have to agree it is very annoying. . .

A shame about aarf. He was quite helpful. (I guess "was" is indeed the appropriate term here.)

Any guess as to what made him try to pull a l0wt3ch?

darkcity wrote:Thanks for the information. People have the right to remove post no? But I have to agree it is very annoying. . .

I did not know about that rule either until lowtech
happen to do it and Flash and John? decided it
where not allowed.

Did aarf know? I don't remember what he wrote there.
what made him so upset that he started to pull his own
texts?

Should we not try to find other ways to deal with such
than to ban them? I don't criticize I suggest we find other ways.

nooby wrote:

darkcity wrote:Thanks for the information. People have the right to remove post no? But I have to agree it is very annoying. . .

I did not know about that rule either until lowtech
happen to do it and Flash and John? decided it
where not allowed.

Did aarf know? I don't remember what he wrote there.
what made him so upset that he started to pull his own
texts?

Should we not try to find other ways to deal with such
than to ban them? I don't criticize I suggest we find other ways.

One way would be to quote every message we reply to

mahaju wrote:

nooby wrote:

darkcity wrote:Thanks for the information. People have the right to remove post no? But I have to agree it is very annoying. . .

I did not know about that rule either until lowtech
happen to do it and Flash and John? decided it
where not allowed.

Did aarf know? I don't remember what he wrote there.
what made him so upset that he started to pull his own
texts?

Should we not try to find other ways to deal with such
than to ban them? I don't criticize I suggest we find other ways.

One way would be to quote every message we reply to

I've seen implementations in other forums, which do not allow editing or deleting of posts after they are a certain number of days (or hours may be (?)) old

HI nooby,

Purely as an example. You delete all the content of your 8000+ posts so that many times that number of responses (and countless hours) are rendered meaningless rubbish.

If you were to do that you would be disgraced by applying modern rights instead of old-fashioned duties and you should be banned forever and, at minimum, given six of the best.

My regards

Aarf has been a member of this forum for years. He knew better. That's why I banned him. If he had seemed to be new to forums, I'd have explained why he shouldn't do what he did and given him a second chance.

Yes Flash I don't disapprove of your right to follow
what is the norms at all. But this way we lost the good
input he gave us too. AFAIK he disliked me very much
and I felt sad when he talked me down but what to expect
I am very confusing and naive so I do get that it is tempting.

What I try to say is that there where some tech way to
preserve behind the scene if somebody act like what
you describe aarf did and lowtech before him did
and that it only deleted from the visible but not from
the Admin but made the Admin aware of that somebody
starting to do that on many posts deliberally.

mahaju, yes that would be one way but unfortunately
it would make the forum archive very big and poor John
has to pay for size and not only traffic intensity.

What about Google cache can one retrieve some
of the good posts that way`or Wayback machine?
or similar facilities.

it is sad if we lose a good advice just because somebody
get emotionally upset and want to delete everything.

a search engine has brought up this:

aarf wrote:someone/something has changed the password i was using. as they changed the avatar, perhaps they also changed the email address which was inactive/non existent. not going to try a recovery.

quoted from http://puppylinux.info/topic/main-forum ... -about-you

I didn't change anything, I just disabled the aarf account.

Flash,

Did you have any communication at all with aarf about this issue?

If not, surely you should email him to learn his side of the story if he claims he did not make the deletions?

Perhaps he's a member of the alternative forum if you need fresh contact details.

Smells like an account-hacking job to me

I PM'd aarf about it but i guess if his account is frozen, he wouldn't have received the message....i've had to delete his account from my server, for obvious security reasons, (as has Smokey01), but his directory contents are intact and still accessible.

I'm sorry for him that this has happened, as i don't believe he's the culprit at all and, in spite of his sometimes (imo) peculiar posts, we have lost a valuable contributor

Has anyone ever figured out why stu90 and bugman's forum accounts were broken?
They had to re-register with different member names (stu91 and bugman-2.0).

If aarf is active on Raffy forum we can talk to him there
and what russoodle and Dewbie take up show that it can be
worthy to do it? in case it is something else going on.

Flash do you still ahve the logs so you can see if the IP
for the one that deleted aarf texts are the same IP range
as aarf use for to post in our forum?

At Raffy forum we did have someone that tried to pose
as other users and also tried to guess our log in to take over
our accounts. Maybe Raffy can share what IP ranges that person used?

aarf has been actively posting on Barry's Blog since the last 14 hours.

Kinda miss his (is aarf a 'him?') often dry sarcastic and often informative posts.

Hope the situation is resolved one way or another. Perhaps a review of forum (server side) security is in order?

Our forum, though extremely functional, is really kinda behind the times.

That is NOT to say or suggest that a newer version wouldn't have presented the same kind of target, but, often times, vendors make positive changes to reduce the attack surface and holes that exist.

Maybe its time to review if this forum can achieve an upgrade that would make it not only easier to achieve certains, but also to expand its functionality to the community.

Just thoughts to consider.