Strange Topics on Various Bord categories

Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback

Post 1 by OceanDream (An Ocean of Thoughts) on Saturday, 23-Jul-2011 11:49:37

Since yesterday, strange topics have been coming up. I see three so far, all with the same name, but under different categories. the topics are started by user #0, and of course there is no link to this user's profile. the topics are all called "Spupeceare". there's one on accessible games, I believe, one on The Rave Board, and one on Zone BBS Q and A. if I click on the topic, I get a message that says "Error! Ignoring 0 does not exist". does anyone know what's going on with this?

Post 2 by DevilishAnthony (Just go on and agree with me. You know you want to.) on Saturday, 23-Jul-2011 11:57:18

I'd say it was done by Kieranlittle667, user ID 9914, though I can't be sure. He came on the site yesterday, crashing our screenreaders and talking about cracked software, basically begging to be banned, so I think he got his wish.

Post 3 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Saturday, 23-Jul-2011 13:16:19

This kind of thing has happened before, and the user usually eventually gets caught and is banned.

Post 4 by OceanDream (An Ocean of Thoughts) on Saturday, 23-Jul-2011 14:03:04

Yeah. I figured it was something like that.

Post 5 by Shadow_Cat (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 23-Jul-2011 23:40:48

Bringing this one to the staff, even though I'm no longer a CL

Post 6 by Shadow_Cat (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 23-Jul-2011 23:45:16

OK, scratch that. J and/or Chris are the only ones who can do anything about those, and they've been alerted to them.

Post 7 by robbiec12345 (Good night and Farewell ) on Sunday, 24-Jul-2011 6:24:01

Yes, I noticed this yesterday as well and thought it rather odd. Either it's spam and the system hasn't removed the topics properly, or it's something more suspicious. This reminds me a bit of what happened to Blink Nation; they're issues started off with a random user spamming their forums and stuff, and it eventually lead to the whole site being hacked and brought down. So, let's hope we can route this one out quickly before something like that happens over here.

Post 8 by forereel (Just posting.) on Monday, 25-Jul-2011 20:01:40

Sorry, but I believe our staff is technically better than the blink nations. Smile.

Post 9 by admin (I just keep on posting!) on Friday, 29-Jul-2011 19:29:21

These topics are now gone and hopefully the bug which allowed for this is also fixed.

Post 10 by forereel (Just posting.) on Saturday, 30-Jul-2011 23:08:06

See what I mean, and the Zone lives! Lol